10 Festive Video Games To Play During Christmas 2018

Despite what a certain mega-famous video game review outlet might have consumers believe, Dead Rising 4 is sort of a buzzkill in a series that often came across as refreshingly offbeat. Unpolished and sloppy, the dodgy frame rate and gruff texture work made for a pretty lackluster series capstone.

Yet, two years after release, there is something to be said for the fourth Dead Rising title. It re-introduced original series protagonist Frank Woods, a man whose two game hiatus made him doubly sarcastic, and it removed the omnipresent timer which could be a bit of a downer at times.

Best of all, Dead Rising 4 boasted a holiday theme which worked well with the franchise’s tried-and-true open-world mall aesthetic. The halls of the Willamette Memorial Megaplex have been decked, and cheesy Christmas music floats from unseen speakers. In a way, it’s like a real mid-December trip to the mall, just with one or two more zombies than usual.

This title would have been a very hard sell at full price, but, at around $15, it’s a pretty decent and seasonally-appropriate zombie-slaying romp.