Today, a video appeared online that is believed to be a prototype of the canceled Dead Rising 5 game. It shows some scenes from the forest level and the last area adjacent to a river.
The video you're watching below comes from the archives of one of the level designers at the studio developing the game under the title Dead Rising: Dia de los Muertos.
Through the video, it seems that the protagonist of the game is Chuck Green, with different game mechanics such as collecting resources, fighting enemies and solving some puzzles. Despite this, the story of the game, its location and its events are still unknown, although some areas of the game have appeared, such as Barrio, Hotel, Camps, Mayan Temple and Safehouse, all located in Mexico.
Barrio is based on part of a real Mexican city, although it appears from the video that it never made it past the early design stage. The most complete level was Camps. Level designer Nick Sienkiewicz described the jungle level as being designed with lots of zombies to kill and lots of gang bases to raid, which eventually leads to a showdown with a final boss, who is usually a drug lord with a fake electrified metal arm named El Guapo.
The second video reveals an early version of the resource gathering mechanic, designed to contextualize a different resource gathering mechanic. These scenes date back to 2017, a year after the release of Dead Rising 4. While the game was in development, it was not announced at the time, due to Capcom Vancouver's promise to focus on the Dead Rising series. Unfortunately, development appears to have stopped completely when the studio closed in 2018 and the game was subsequently cancelled.
