With over 1 million units shipped, Dead Rising has proven a commercial and critical success. Check out this year-end recap of awards for our zombie-crushing extravaganza (we’re talkin’ Zombies of the Mall Species, not those eastern European “faux zombies” from Resident Evil 4).
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Best Action Game of the Year at the Spike TV 2006 Video Game Awards.
Dead Rising Accolades:
Village Voice – #4 of Best Games of 2006
Next Gen – #7 of Top 50 Games of the year
IGN Xbox 360 – Most Innovative Design
GameSpot – Best of 2006
Best Action Adventure Game
Best Sound Effects
Best Use of Xbox 360 Achievement Points
Yahoo! Games: Best of 2006
Best Original Game
GameShark.com – Game of the Year Awards 2006
Best Action Game
IGN Xbox 360 – Best of 2006
Most Innovative Design
UGO.com – The Second-Best Games of 2006
Xbox 360
TeamXbox – Game of the Year Awards 2006
Best Reason to Embrace Capitalism
Village Voice
Best Games of 2006, #4
Next Gen
Top 50 Games of the year, #7
GameSpy – 2006 Game of the Year Xbox 360 category
#6 of Xbox 360 Top 10 Games of the Year
Best Game Featuring Zombie Genocide as an Achievement
The Onion – Best of 2006
Scott Tobias Top 5 picks – #4