Willamette Parkview Mall



The Willamette Parkview Mall is the main setting of the video game Dead Rising. This mall is in the fictional town of Willamette, Colorado. The mall features 5 different areas and 79 shops, as well as a movie theater, a grocery store, a gym, two hardware stores and a gun shop.The mall is mentioned to have been the center for the only entertainment in the small isolated town which was quarantined.Either on September 18th, or the morning of the 19th, many survivors of the zombie outbreak went into the mall in the entrance plaza and began to barricade it with items such as benches trash cans and plants. However, a woman named Lindsay Harris saw her dog outside and opened the doors,only to be eaten and have the dog turned into a zombie in the wii version and also inadvertently allowing zombies to penetrate the mall's barricade. The zombies quickly entered and killed all but two of the people by the entrance, Frank West and Russell Barnaby. Zombies quickly began spreading to the other areas of the mall. There were a few places, like the warehouse and Seon's Food and Stuff, that they couldn't get into. They soon invaded these areas once people, usually Frank, opened the doors. The only place that the zombies couldn't get into was the security office due to Otis Washington welding the door shut, as well as their inability to use the air-ducts.There is a tunnel under the clock tower which was used by Frank and Isabelle whcih leads to the outside after the helicopter crashes but is pact full of zombies shoulder to shoulder.The parking lot is inaccesible ti the player but can still have zombies which can be shot at.