It would have been nice to learn more about each of these minor characters from the main game, but we never really learned much that couldn’t have been discerned from the brief time they featured in Nick’s story.
Rather than really building up layers of the Los Perdidos story, each new character was presented as a pretty two-dimensional horror film stereotype. What Capcom ended up giving us was four short stories, each consisting of several basic fetch quests or rescue missions, wrapped around some very brief expositional cut-scenes. Unfortunately we should have been prepared to have been rather let-down. This promised to offer four distinct new viewpoints on the story, many new missions and locations to explore and a whole host of weapons and vehicle combos to build. Rather than simply being an extension to the campaign of main protagonist Nick Ramos, these four DLC episodes would each focus on a minor character who players would have met in the campaign and show how the Zombie outbreak affected them. When The Untold Stories of Los Perdidos was announced, we were rightly intrigued. Its mix of arcade action, exploration and dark humour is well-loved by fans of the franchise, and you would imagine that any opportunity to extend the experience would be one to relish.
Despite that however, Dead Rising 3 still attained a relatively good critical reception and the Xbox fans who did pick up the game when it was released seemed happy to re-enter the slightly crazy, Zombie-infested world that is offered to them.
The main title may not have been as revolutionary as many gamers may have hoped, and little it did seemed truly next-gen.
The series had never managed to become a triple-A game or to set the sales charts alight, but it seemed like a game that would be able to showcase the power of the new machine – with thousands and thousands of Zombies roaming a new, larger open world. Dead Rising 3 was undoubtedly one of the most highly-anticipated launch titles on Xbox One, and was in fact one of the few platform-exclusive launch games on either of the next-generation consoles.