THE MOST important aspect of the original Dead Rising was one of scale, as well as location: as the shopping mall set up was iconically linked with one of the greatest zombie films of all time. Zombies are undead terrors but, on the face of it, are easy to outrun and evade. So what was needed was a full scale outbreak, a sense that a veritable army of implacable foes could be lurking around every corner – ready to overwhelm you with sheer weight of numbers. The key feature was in making sure the screen was packed, wall to wall, with undead foes ready to make your every move a living nightmare.