Endings (Dead Rising 3)

Below is a list of possible endings for Dead Rising 3. There are a total of six known endings that can be achieved depending on player choices. Ending S is the best eding, followed by C, D, and F. There is also an alternate ending to Chapter 8 that is no numbered.

Ending S is considered to be the true, canon ending.

Ending S
Method: Complete all chapters and bring Rhonda to Gary.

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.

Note: Unlike previous games, Ending A is simply the ending that leads into Chapter 8 and Ending S, making Ending S the true ending and Ending A the "gateway" true ending.

Ending C
Method: Complete all chapters and kill Gary at the kareoke bar.

Shortly before dying, Gary tells Nick he's doing him a favor. Although feeling bad for what he had done, Nick continues on to save Annie. The game continues on as normal until after defeating Red.

Nick, Annie, Dick, and Isabela attempt to start the plane, but it continues to stall. Hundreds of zombies begin surrounding the plane as the screen fades to black. It was then explained that although General Hemlock was arrested, there was never a cure for the zombie disease and rumors of a "Number 12" were never proven.

Ending D
Method: Complete chapters 1 - 6 and go to the plane instead of the kareoke bar.

Nick, figuring its every man for himself, tries to leave everyone to die and escape on the plane. However, Red, Annie, Rhonda, and Gary enter the hanger and knock Nick down. While Nick tries to convince them that he was joking, they are ashamed of his selfishness and leave him to die. It is then revealed that outbreaks later occurred all across America, as was Hemlock's plan.

Ending F
Method: Let the clock run out.

If the player does not succesfully complete the story, and the clock runs out, a scene of a nuclear explosion will occur, destroying the entire city and all organic life within it. It is explained that no one in the city was ever heard from again, and General Hemlock succesfully created a bioweapon that destroyed the population and put America under martial law.

Overtime Alternate Ending
Method: Fail to stop Hemlock from collecting the king zombies in chapter 8.

Hemlock, after succesfully harvesting all of the kings, evacuates the city. It is then bombed, destroying all human life with no survivors. It is then explained that Hemlock succesfully used the king zombies as a bio weapon, destroying the population but leaving the infustructure. Although technically an ending, recieving this conclusion will simply lead to a game over screen where the player can restart from the last checkpoint, as appossed to the other endings where the game goes to the credits and starting from a previous checkpoint is unavailable.