For all its innovation, Dead Rising 3s bosses both the mandatory storyline encounters and the Psycho missions remain a frustrating low point. Even with your new-found abilities, boss fights feel awkward and unfair. Controls that work well when navigating through the lumbering undead come unstuck against more agile foes, or even track-mounted robotic arms, as one particularly hateful and drawn-out encounter proves.
But even these charismatic roadblocks cant quite derail an ambitious overhaul of the series that offers more than enough incentive for you to endure its less progressive design choices. Dead Rising 3 is a sandbox in the purest sense, one that urges you to experiment with its innumerable toys at your leisure. The result is an open world that, in spite of its reanimated inhabitants, feels more alive than most.
