Story Mode (Dead Rising 3)

Story Mode is the main mode of Dead Rising 3. While in previous games this mode was referred to as 72 hour mode, Dead Rising 3's story is longer than 72 hours, and so it is simply called Story Mode.

Synopsis
Dead Rising 3 takes place ten years after Dead Rising 2. It follows the game's protagonist, a young mechanic named Nick Ramos as he desperately attempts to find a way out of the city of Los Perdidos.

In 2017 the government began using zombrex chips - a required chip that is placed inside infected people and administers Zombrex daily. This chip, however, also tracks them via GPS, which makes many refuse to have it administered.

During the events of Dead Rising 3, a nationwide pandemic of zombie outbreaks has caused human civilization to be nearly wiped out. [2] Contained zombies are accidentally released from containment starting an outbreak in Los Perdidos. Nick and other survivors must escape the city alive before the military performs a firebombing. At some point during the initial outbreak, Nick comes in contact with a trucker named Dick, his boss Rhonda, and Annie, an infected "illegal" - people who refuse to be chipped by the government.



The game begins 3 days after the initial outbreak. Nick is on the bridge outside the city heading towards a Quarantine Area to search for a way out of the city, but quickly leaves after finding the tunnel leading out of the city collapsed. After jumping to escape from zombies, Nick falls unconscious for a brief time, and wakes to find an airplane has crashed in front of him. Nick soon makes his way through the airplane wreckage back to the Dilly Diner where his friends are taking refuge. While Annie and Rhonda argue about Annie being an illegal, Dick leans on a jukebox and turns it on, attracting the zombies to the diner. Annie leaves the group after Peter and his mother are killed, and Nick, Dick and Rhonda escape from the diner together and make their way to Rhonda's garage to plan their next course of action. Nick then finds a walkie-talkie on a zombie who was a member of the ZDC and gets in contact with an unknown survivor named Jamie Flynt, who will frequently calls Nick about the events that happen in the city.

After seeing on television that the government is going to bomb the city in 6 days, and that they are allegedly evacuating survivors at quarantine stations, the group decides to drive there. When they arrive, they find the station abandoned and are ambushed by a biker gang. Nick kills their leader but has an emotional breakdown over the fact that he has now killed a human being. Rhonda reassures him that the bikers would have killed them and that it's "escape or die".

After leaving the Quarantine Station, Nick, Rhonda and Dick are ambushed by Diego, Nick's best friend and a soldier in the military. Once Diego realizes it's Nick, he quickly stops firing and apologizes. He tells the group that there's an old plane at the warehouse by the docks in South Almuda that could be fixed up and used to escape the city before the bomb goes off. In the midst of their conversation, Nick is bitten by a zombie in the hand when he reaches down to pick up a set of dropped keys. Realizing that he could turn soon, he heads to the crematorium in Ingleton to search for emergency Zombrex.

When he arrives there he meets Gary Finkel, a mobster who works for an unknown crook. Gary needs to get into the crematorium to get a body for his boss, so he agrees to help Nick find Zombrex if Nick helps him get inside. When they find the body, Nick believes her to be Annie, however, he takes a closer look and realizes he is mistaken. Gary points out that all of the emergency Zombrex is gone, and Nick accepts his fate, believing he will soon turn. Nick asks Gary to shoot him before he turns, but the bullet misses. Gary notices that the wound on Nick's hand is miraculously healing itself, and Nick then realizes that he won't be needing Zombrex. After this, Nick helps Gary deliver the body to his boss at the Diamond Panty.



Gary meets Nick at the Diamond Panty after he's delivered the body. Gary's boss is furious after learning that the body that Gary retrieved was not the girl he was looking for. Gary then asks Nick if he knows where Annie is, and offers to find him fuel for the plane if he finds Annie and brings her back to the club. Nick returns to the warehouse to check in with Rhonda, Dick and Diego. The group agrees that turning in Annie for the fuel is the best course of action, and Rhonda shows Nick the symbol that the illegals use to mark their territory.

Nick, feeling guilty, locates Annie and some other illegals at a watch tower. When he asks if she'll come with him to Ingleton, she senses that he's hiding something, and Nick immediately apologizes for trying to decieve her. He then offers to help the group by destroying military equipment around the city after the group's leader, Red, tells Nick that the government isn't evacuating survivors but are killing them.

After Nick has destroyed all of the military equipment, he returns to the communication tower to report to Red and Annie. He nervously asks Annie if she and Red are in a relationship, only to be interrupted by Red himself, who tells them that there is a flash drive containing important military footage at the police station. Nick volunteers to retrieve the flash drive while Red and Annie go to find one of their fellow illegals. When Nick arrives at the police station, he must defeat soldiers and kill the crazed sergeant who is holding the flash drive. After killing Hilde, Nick takes the flash drive off of her body and brings it back to Red and Annie at The Burgess-Dawson hotel. Red gets in an argument with Annie about the group but then tells Nick that he will hold up his end of the bargain to find fuel.



Nick meets Annie back at the tower and is almost immediately ambushed by Gary. Annie is immediately furious at Nick, but Gary tells her that Nick had nothing to do with it and that he followed him here. He attempts to abduct Annie, but the military attack the tower and kidnap Gary and the illegals. Nick is rendered unconscious, but awakens when Red arrives. The two team up and go to a military encampment in Ingleton to rescue the captives. Nick is able to successfully sneak into the compound and hears a conversation between General Hemlock and Marian Mallon. The two talk about the outbreak and Marian reveals that she is searching for Diego. The President is being held captive at the compound and is infected with the zombie parasite.

After the conversation between Hemlock and Mallon finishes, Nick manages to free Annie and the rest of the captives. Red provides cover while Nick fights his way through the compound so that the illegals can make a getaway. Gary attempts to kidnap Annie again, but is stopped by Nick. Knowing that he owes Nick, Gary leaves to track down Annie again. Red shows Nick a wanted poster offering five million dollars to anyone who has information about Nick or Diego. Reassuring Red that he has no clue why the government would want him, Red tells him where to find the fuel for the plane and Nick goes to retrieve it.

Nick returns to Rhonda and Dick at the warehouse once has retrieved the fuel. Rhonda informs Nick that Diego has fled, and suggests that he goes to find him at the museum. Desperate to warn Diego, Nick goes after him, only to find that he has snapped under the pressure of the outbreak. Nick must fight Diego in order to bring him back to his senses. After defeating Diego, the two go into the zombie section of the museum, where images of Frank West, Chuck Greene, and their respected outbreaks are located. Nick learns about Carlito and Isabela Keyes, the two terrorists behind the first American outbreak in Willamette, Colorado. Then, Diego points out the first outbreak to occur after Willamette, an incident that began with a turning during a baseball game, was allegedly started by a man with a '4' tattooed on his neck, similar to Nick's 12 and Diego's 49.

They return to the plane where Rhonda has given Nick a location to get the missing parts of the plane. After retrieving these, Nick gives them to Rhonda and she finishes the plane. She then confesses to Nick that she's not going with them because she wants to find her ex-boyfriend and clear up everything with him. Nick, Dick and Diego leave to go find Annie and the illegals but are ambushed by the military. Nick awakens in a room, chained to a chair surrounded by soldiers. Diego is chained to a chair next to him. Marian Mallon commands them to "activate" Diego first, to see if he's "the one". Diego is then zapped with an intense laser beam, and is killed as several of the zombie parasites swarm out of his body, causing excrutiating pain. Hundreds of parasitic bees swarm out of his body, and in the confusion Nick escapes.

After traveling further into the laboratory, Nick meets Isabela Keyes, who tells him that the worms won't live inside him, and his fate will not be like Diego's. He attempts to escape with her so she can further explain, but he is attacked by Mallon. He tells Isabela to go to the warehouse where the plane is and that he'll meet her there. After defeating Mallon he escapes, and goes to find Annie. Instead, he finds Gary, who has finally captured Annie and locked her in the tiki bar, refusing to let her go with Nick. Gary then pours his heart out to Nick, saying that he's too screwed up, he doesn't even desire to live anymore, and that he misses his ex-wife, Rhonda. Nick realizes that Rhonda has been looking for Gary this whole time.

Nick brings Rhonda to Gary and in return, Gary allows him inside the bar to save Annie. Nick clears the bar of zombies and unties Annie. She confesses to Nick what he asked her earlier; telling him that she and Red were in a relationship a long time ago, but it never worked out. She slowly gets closer to Nick, telling him that it seemed like he wanted to know and she wanted to tell him. While it is clear that they both have gained feelings for each other, Nick assures her that they have to get to the plane and they leave. When they get there, Red leaves to search for other illegals. In the mean time, Nick asks Isabella to explain why he has the number 12 on his neck. Isabella tells them the story of Carlito, and about Santa Cabeza, a crucial plot point from the original game. She explains that when the military set up a research facility in Santa Cabeza, which was her and Carlito's home town in Mexico, soldiers had intercourse with women in the town, giving birth to many children. then, when the parasitic bees were discovered and experimented on in the town, they got loose, killing the population and turning them into zombies. The government came and murdered almost all of the survivors in order to cover up the truth (this cover up was eventually foiled by Frank West). Angered at the destruction of his town, Carlito deems it fitting to send the children, spawned from the US military, back to the country which created them. He infected the remaining 50 surviving children with the zombie disease and sent them to America, in the hopes that these orphans would turn over the years and create outbreaks. But he did not want to create something unstoppable; so he made one of the orphans, number 12, immune to the infection. Nick, realizing that he has the cure to the disease in his blood, now understands why Mallon wanted to capture him. In the midst of this, Red calls for Nick and Annie's help.

When they arrive, Red turns on them, and captures Annie and Isabella. He tells Nick that when he saw the reward for his capture, he realized he could finally live life good, as a rich man. Infuriated, Nick vows to kill Red and the two fight. After Red's death, Nick returns to Annie, Isabella and Dick, who has somehow escaped the military. He hears Hemlock on a transceiver, and pretending to be a military agent, tells him they need more time to get the orphan. Hemlock agrees, extending the time before the bomb an extra 24 hours. Nick and Annie then kiss as the screen pans up.



While holding each other, Nick and Annie notice a car pulling up to them. Chuck Greene, the protagonist of Dead Rising 2, steps out of the vehicle yelling the name 'Katey'. Annie runs to him and hugs him, revealing that she is actually Katey Greene. Rhonda and Gary are in the car with Chuck, revealing that he was the one Gary was working for the whole time. Isabella explains to Chuck that they must get Nick to a safe place in order to create the cure, and they head to the plane.



Gary and Rhonda volunteer to stay to help rescue any remaining survivors and find another way out of the city. Nick is about to take off, however he overhears on the radio that General Hemlock is planning to create a super weapon with the zombies, which will destroy the population but leave the infustructure, making him extremely powerful. Nick and Chuck team up to stop Hemlock's plan.

Hemlock kills Mallon after being angered of her disrespect to him. He then proceeds to go forth with the extraction of king zombies from the city. Nick and Chuck stop the machines from extracting them, and then Hemlock and Nick have a long battle. When Hemlock is weakened, Nick reveals to him that he is the cure to the zombie disease before kicking him into active helicopter blades, killing him. After his death, Nick and the rest escape the city and eventually create and distribute a cure to the zombie infection.

After the credits, it is revealed that Isabella was the one behind the outbreak the whole time, convincing Mallon to begin the outbreak. Her goal was to start the outbreak so that number 12 would relize his immunity and come forward, succesfully making herself the creator of the cure and clearing her family name from what Carlito did 15 years prior in Willamette. Back in the present, Isabella destroys the evidence of this and leaves the city with the others, making her elaborate plan a success.