Silvercross posted...
One of the big draws of Dead Rising is the RPG element, yes. You could probably consider Dead Rising an Action RPG.
Err...I disagree with that specific word choice. ARPG is generally reserved for a subgenre of JRPG (Tales of, Star Ocean, etc).
In fact, strongly disagree with categorizing a game by its incentive system. It would be like calling FF7 and MGS and Phantasmagoria and Warcraft II "FMV games, because they have FMV." It's true that they do share that appeal, it was probably a big selling point of all four games, but that's not the genre of the game.
Game genres should be determined by gameplay; what you're actually doing. I could make an RPG where you don't level up, (say, mod a Dragon Quest game to not give exp...and scale monster stats appropriately) and everyone sensible would recognize it as an RPG.
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