Players will apparently battle within a movie studio lot while contending against a “deranged film director” who wants to create the “perfect movie.” Other survivors are involved, and they must cooperate to survive. You can also allegedly expect the return of the Psychopaths as the director’s minions, though there’s at least one who’s doing so against his will.

Saddled with a bomb, he’s the cameraman for this whole ordeal and is saved by Frank early on. The survivors allegedly include actors and at least one returning character, Isabela Keyes from Dead Rising 2: Case West and Dead Rising 3. A new zombie virus is also seemingly amok, though details are scant.

Otherwise, many tenets of previous titles allegedly return, like taking pictures and the time limit, which manifest as the director doling out orders that must be prioritizied.

You’re probably thinking a reveal at The Game Awards is possible, and that may end up being the case, but the release date is still apparently a “considerable distance away.” Not that this has stopped similar titles from appearing at the show, so take that as you will.

Mejerwall worked on the NPC team during the development of Dead Rising 5, and she spoke about how one of her favourite things about the project was the sheer variety of enemies that players would get to fight. These enemies would include regular zombies and even more intelligent variants, among other things.

“What I loved about Dead Rising 5, as it was canceled, I was on the NPC team, so I made all the boss fights,” said Mejerwall. “And I loved the variation, the tiers of the enemies. So we both had the typical kind of zombies that are not very intelligent, that will grab you. But then we also have a little bit more advanced, semi-more advanced enemies.”

Comparing the tiers of enemies in Dead Rising 5 to what a player might see in a typical Batman game, Mejerwall noted that there would be regular enemies, as well as stronger variants with more armour, for example. These enemies would have gradually gone up in tiers, eventually culminating in entire mini-bosses.

“So the ones for Batman, for example, would be a typical thug. We had the equivalent also in Dead Rising, what we would call that,” she explained. “And then we had the armored version of that. And then what Dead Rising does really well, that I really love, is they have the mini-bosses. And it becomes a kind of tenant unit.”

“It’s not as common to have it that pronounced in games as we do in Dead Rising. And they were a ton of fun to do, and the way that we designed them was that you should be able to drop them almost anywhere. So they shouldn’t be dependent on what kind of terrain or map that you were having, because they could move around.”

Mejerwall also spoke about how Dead Rising 5 was going to have epic boss fights that could be experienced in their own specially-designed arenas. One of these fights, she said, would take place in a temple environment that she had designed, with the temple breaking down around the player as the fight progressed. Bosses would also get angrier over the course of a fight, which would eventually lead to it using different moves.

“Whereas the biggest bosses that I also worked on, they already had their very unique arenas,” Mejerwall continued. “And it could be stuff like one boss fight that I designed was in a temple environment, where over the course of the fight, the temple breaks down more and more.”

“And it gets more and more intense. And the boss gets more and more angry doing more and more stuff. So we really had a wide range of different enemy types. And richer variation. It was really fun to work on that game, and I’m really sad that it never got to see the light of day.”

Ultimately, however, Dead Rising 5 would get cancelled. Capcom had instead released Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster last year on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. For more details, check out our review.

Announced today through Capcom’s website, It’s now known that Capcom Vancouver is as of now dropping support and further development of Puzzle Fighter Mobile, and working on the next entry in the irreverent zombie shooter series, Dead Rising.

Puzzle Fighter Mobile was the first game outside of the Dead Rising series that Capcom Vancouver has worked on in nearly 10 years, and their return to the series will mark the first since the last release in 2016. Nothing further is known about the game at this time.

The real question that’s up in the air right now, is whether or not Capcom will continue to partner with Microsoft on the series, as the last two Dead Rising titles have had some form of exclusivity to Microsoft’s platforms. Dead Rising 4 was timed exclusive while Dead Rising 3 can still only be found on Microsoft Platforms. Are you waiting for your next chance to cover wars? Let us know in the comments.