Dead Rising Official Strategy Guide

The Dead Rising Official Strategy Guide is the official guide for Dead Rising published by Bradygames on August 17, 2006.

Mistakes

 * For the Dead Rising 2 guide, see Prima.


 * The official guide incorrectly calls ovens "ranges", despite the game announcing a "Cooked in Oven Bonus" every time Frank uses the oven.
 * The guide also states there are 7 "ranges" (ovens), when there are actually 9 ovens.
 * The guide states that there are 6 stoves when there are only 5.
 * The official guide misnames several weapons, See Official guide list of weapons.
 * According to several store overhead announcements, the shopping center was just about to celebrate its third anniversary. But in the bio of Otis Washington, the official Dead Rising Guide incorrectly states "Otis has been working at the Willamette Mall since it first opened in the early '80's."
 * The official guide misspells Barbara "Babara" on page 120.

Bad advice

 * Regarding Gil Jimenez, the Official Guide offers this unnecessary advice: "Unequip your weapon and hit Gil until he decides to talk to Frank again. Even   after   another   attempt   at convincing him to come with Frank, Gil declines." It also fails to mention the 10,000 prestige point photo opportunity in the section on Gil.
 * The official guide fails mentioning the third Entertainment book in regards to the Small Chainsaw, "Take a quick moment to run up the set of stairs and grab another Small Chainsaw on the ground near the console. These things come in handy, especially if Frank is carrying the Criminal Biography and Engineering Books, which allow them to last up to three times as long as normal."
 * The Official Guide, which makes some baffling decisions about what should and should not be included on its lists of items, (See Official guide list of weapons) lists both the red cabbage and the cabbage, when they are exactly identical except for color. Yet the guide does not mention the different kinds of milk, cooking oil, cookies, snacks and wine, which are also found throughout the mall as well as being in Seon's Food and Stuff, and have identical properties to the Seon's Food and Stuff food except for superficial appearance.