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Xbox 360 | Submitted by dillon

on dead rising in wonderland plaza, if your in a certain level on the game, in one of the shops on the left hand side, there is a man with unlimited Molotov cocktails . he is crazy for what i would think so if you kill him, when hes on the floor burning theres a fire extinisher by there, pick it up and spray the fire out. if you take him to the security room in a thw more minuites oatis will call you saying "paul has a present for you" and you go back to the security room and then he will give you unlimeted moltov coktails.

3.The gun store in the north plaza (spoiler: make sure that you kill Cletus first). There is no particular reason why this is a good fort, it's just good to keep guns close to you.

Note: The SMG's cannot be used for perfect gunner achievement

After exiting the warehouse at the beginning of the game (when you're a n00b) right above you is a blue...thing to best describe it. This blue thing is a little border decoration that sticks out of the wall on top of all the stores on that side. Go to your immediate right and onto the stairs. From there you should be able to jump up onto the blue thing. The SMG (among other things [including a teddy bear]) is up there and is at the very end

On your left as soon as you walk in from the park is a little restaurant called Chris' fine foods. On the sign of this establishment is a model of a rather fat chef (assumed to be a depiction of this Chris fellow). In front of this rather large chef is another SMG. Simply jump up on the one of the walls and climb up. Again, the only reason I can think of why a sub machine gun would be in front of a fat chef of a restaurant would be to threaten people to eat at this fine establishment...

After running through the entire plaza, you reach a small food court with a fountain in the middle. The SMG is located in the middle of this fountain along with a dumbbell. You probably don't even want to hear my theory of why that SMG was there...

Go up the escalators and run around the banister to the other side of the escalators. If you are facing the cosmetic shop, the closest palm tree on your right has the SMG. All you have to do is lure a man-eating zombie over to the banister, get on its shoulder using zombie ride, and jump over a gap that would surely kill you if you fell to land on a palm tree with an SMG in it. This palm tree probably had some self confidence issues and threatened to shoot all the other trees if they didn't stop making fun of his drooping balls...

And that's it there are other guns and lethal weapons in the mall, including baseball bats, stun guns, and handguns that are thrown into trash bins, but that's not too strange because we're assuming its Texas.

There is one more I forgot to mention which is in Wonderland Plaza. Note that you may have to break some theme park rules to get this lethal weapon. Simply ride the roller coaster while it's functioning properly. When it is over one of the lego houses which has the SMG on it, do the opposite of keep your hands and legs inside the vehicle at all times. Basically make a dive for it while the ride comes over it and hope you survive.

Frank's Zombification Cure Item's Locati

-First you'll want to brew up about 4 "Quickstep" drinks to evade the Special Forces.

3.) Run to Cam's Cameras next to the Entry/Exit door to the Warehouse to get the SOLUTION.

1.) (If you do have the Maintainence Tunnel Key) Get into the Parking Garage and take a left to where you killed the Butcher. Theres a door to the Right of the Butcher Shop door, take it. Then youll appear in the Supermarket and you can proceed straight and into the Pharmacy and grab the FIRST AID KIT and go back down into the garage. Then get out of the Parking Garage and to Isabella in Carlito's Hideout.

2.) (If you dont have the Maintainence Tunnel Key) This is the way I did it and its really hard! First get into the North Plaza past the Special Forces down to the Supermarket. Make shure you have a Katana or other Sword from the shop to the left of the Supermarket. Then enter and race down to the Pharmacy and close the door! Then regain some health from the Cardboard Box in the Pharmacy. Get the FIRST AID KIT and make it past the Special Forces. Then take the Motorcycle infront of the Entry/Exit Door from the Supermarket. Drive it down to Carlito's Hideout and you'll still have about 1-5 hours left depending on how high of level you are.

I know that there are already tons of tips on how to kill bosses, but after reading them I discovered that most of them involve taking a katana or small chainsaw and simply cutting them up. I have some tips for if you simply don't have the health to do that.

Cletus, In the Huntin' Shack (North Plaza)

Alright first of all simply run out of the store. Now you should kill all the zombies out there to give you some breathing room. Once that is done, open the door to your left (Cletuse's right) so that it is opened into the store. Then simply stand at the edge of the wall to the left of the door and aim with your gun. Due to Frank's natural right lean, you will be able to shoot Cletus while safely behind the door. If you run out of ammo, there is a corridor to the right on your way back to the North Plaza that usually has 3-4 zombie cops with guns.

This fight is pretty easy, although I still wonder why I cant get his gun. Run up the stairs roughly in front of you so you are kinda under Carlito. You should see a stack of boxes to the right, jump on then, and then onto the same level that Carlito is on. Basically use the same tactic you used on Cletus, go to the edge of the wall, aim, and shoot. (Note: The handgun has a rather small range, so If you're shooting right at Carlito and hes not taking any damage, just wait until he gets closer.) After a bit of this, he will run away to another section of the roof. For this I reccomend jumping down next to Brad and Shooting Carlito when he comes out from behind the sign. Because of the horrible AI, Carlito will always run out to the same spot, so just aim right there and hit him when he stops. If you run out of ammo, just talk to brad and he'll give you another gun.

If you're like me, then you got pretty frusterated by these guys. All you have to do, however is raid the Huntin Shack and grab a couple shotguns and maybe a sniper rifle. (If you havent killed Cletus, then this fight is a lot harder, so I would reccomend doing that first.) If you like being up close and personal, then simply blast the convicts with the shotgun when they try to run your over. I recomend killing the gunner first, then the guy with the bat, and then the driver. If you find that you keep running out of health when you do this, then I would reccomend trying out the sniper rifle. Just run away from them until they become preoccupied with something else or get stuck behind a tree, and then kill the zombies in a rough 25 ft square area so you can aim. Then just zoom in on the convicts and take out the gunner, then passenger, driver. It is kinda touchy while aiming, so you dont need to nessecarily go for headshots, as long as you hit them. Note: If you dont destroy the car after you kill the convicts, they will simply come back next time you enter the park. I reccomend taking the gun off of the back and shooting the jeep until black smoke comes from under the hood. If you're not sure that its completely destroyed, then check if you can still get in.

This is pretty simple, and, despite what I said earlier I reccomend a katana. The shotgun is hard to use because he is always in your face and its pretty hard to shoot him before he stabs you. So I would just wait until he attacks you, sidestep it, and get in a quick slash or two while hes recovering. Keep this up for a bit and he will drop pretty fast. As for the cultists that come running in afterwards, that is what the shotgun was made for. Just put a couple pumps into the group, wait for one to charge you, and let him run up to you. You will then enter a grapple, and its pretty easy to win. Once you push him over step back, and, if it went right, most of the group should be over the body when it explodes. SPOILER: The book that Steve drops is called "Brainwashing for dummies" XD

This is a pretty easy fight, despite how much everybody else whines about it. First of all, you need to run down the stairs to the second floor. Once he follows you, stay at a distance of about 10-15 feet away and wait until he starts to blow a balloon. (If he decides to throw a knife just dodge it and he will problably blow a balloon, and if he does the flame breath, then your too close) Shoot the balloon, and keep shooting him while he's stunned. This is pretty much the entire fight, and I got it the first time without losing a single bar of health. If he jumps down to the first floor, then DO NOT FOLLOW HIM. There are tons of zombies down there, and it is much harder to kill him. Just wait until he comes back up to the first floor.

First of all, this is a very hard fight. First he will do a little "come here" gesture but ignore it. If he doesnt charge you, then bait him by running up to him and back really fast. First he will kick at you, then he will yell and charge you, usually knocking you off the tank. Sidestep that, and beat the crap out of him as soon as he passes you. Any technuiqe will do, I used normal punches most of the time. Note: When he blocks your punches he will take a tiny amount of damage, so once his health is about at one quarter left, just keep punhcing him and letting him block it, and after about 2 minutes he will die. I also found that if you are constantly falling off the tank and getting bitten several times, then scan the edge of the zombie crowd for some that have queens. I found a couple next to the wall, so look around. Kill that zombie and throw the wasp-in-a-jar at the crowd. You will kill about 200 every time, so if you do that 2 or 3 times the zombie crowd will pretty much dissapear, so you dont have to worry about falling off the tank.

After you kill Adam the Clown, pick up his first small chainsaw, then stop the ride and another chainsaw will be where his body is. Now, Step 1: Don't save the guy that was on the space ride first exit Wonderland Plaza, then when you walk back in there will be a new small chainsaw waiting for you where Adams body was. Continue this process until you have as many small chainsaws as you need. With the Criminal Biography book, the Entertainment book and the Engineering book you will have an unstoppable small chainsaw army.

Brian's Shotgun

To kill the tank, just shoot at the glowing things that switch places on the body of the tank. Usually they appear at the front of the tank on the left or the right. Occasionally they will appear at the top of the tank. When it appears at the top, shoot it immediately! If you don't shoot it then the tanks attack will do considerable damage to your vehicle. The tanks health will appear at the bottom of the screen so you know how your doing so far.

After you destroy the tank, A cut scene will occur. After the cut scene you will spawn on the tank will Brock standing on it with you. All around you is a swarm of zombies. You do not have any weapons when you spawn but don't worry! All you need is the double lariat where you spin around. If you have this skill then you will do fine on him. If you don't then the other move i recommend is the knee drop. To kill him with the knee drop just get him off the very top of the tank onto the front of it. Get him to attack you and quickly dodge him. jump onto the top of the tank and when he jumps up after you, knee drop him and it should do some damage. You should avoid being knocked off the tank because the zombies will devour you and your basically screwed if you fall off. Also avoid being knocked to the ground because Brock will do his neck snap move which will kill a lower level.

Go to the food courts, and on the green letters on top of chris's fine foods is a sub machine gun. Also in Wonderland Plaza, there's one on the block houses. You can get up there by using the ride, just time your jumps

Combine "Zombait" And "Randomizer" And You Get A Green Drink Called "Energizer" It Gives You Unlimited health For 30 Seconds.

Inside Flexin' in Al Fresca Plaza

If you run on the treadmills Inside Flexin' in Al Fresca Plaza, you'll get 2,000 PP for each one, for a total of 10,000 bonus PP.

Ed's Nicknackery

In the entrance plaza go up to the second level (after you unlock it, after you beat Carlito) and walk on the right walkway you start near. Go into the store called Ed's Nicknackery - in the right display case there should be battle axes!

Very occasionally, a Zombie will be carrying a shower head. After you've grabbed it, attack a zombie from close up with it by pressing X. Frank will plunge the shower head into the zombie's cranium, making the shower head gush out red blood for a brief moment. It's funny but over far too quickly, so get your camera ready!

When you enter the food court from the outside, go to the left and up the stairs to the buffet restaurant. On the wall there should be a bunch of plates. shoot them with your hand gun and you'll get 1,000 pp points for each plate you destroy.

When your on your way to the supermarket to get medicine for Brad, go into the construction site area - in the very first store under construction, there will be a nail gun on the ground, pick it up and save all its ammo. Once you're in the store and about to go through the double doors you get stopped by the freaky madman dude. Even when he starts chasing you and you have to kill him, run back to the double doors (make sure you picked up some milk). Open only one of the double doors and run inside, then, turn around and the madman will try to run through the doors but he can't fit - while he's just standing there, start unloading with the nail gun right in his annoying little face. He will run away, but he comes right back so don't move. And the milk is because about every 15 or 20 shots you take he shoots you with his shotgun. No biggie though. (The nail gun holds 60 shots).

After unlocking the "Knee Drop" technique

After you unlock the "Knee Drop" skill, hold down on the analog stick and press X right before touching the ground to unleash a leg sweep that knocks down multiple zombies. The timing for pulling this move off is similar to the Roundhouse skill.

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Jessie's Cleavage

Take shots of Jessie's Cleavage for 200+ erotica points.

Untouchable - Zombies can't grab you.

First make sure you have good weapons. Once you enter theater number four he will be in their praying to a maniquin. Right when the cutscene is over turn around and run out the door you came in. He won't follow you so you walk into the theater hit him a couple of times and walk back out . If you need more life go into the other theaters and check for food or drinks. Note: Once you kill him more of his cult followers will come after you blocking the way out of theater four, so take Sean's sword.

The Gasoline - once outside, if u go down the long alley into the parking lot, there will be a car and bike waiting for you. That's a great way to earn plenty o'kills. However, if you enter the underground section watch out, a few zombies down there are pushing gasoline tanks, the tanks will severely damage your car/bike, and will eventuall destroy it, and unless you are at a very high level with very good weapons, without a vehicle, surviving down there is hopeless.

This weapon can be found on the blue ledge above the store "Shoekins" in the Paradise Plaza area. Jump from the staircase next to the store "Kids Choice Clothing"

Once you find a sharp weapon, and a funky helmet, slam the helmet on the zombie's head and chop the head off, stab the body, and somethin funny will happen.

Just grab two handguns a samurai sword and all the orange juice you can hold. To beat them, get them to run into a tree then slice the driver. if you run out of your samurai sword shoot them. When they're all dead grab the big machine gun in the back of the jeep.

Jill's Sandwiches

Just grab a frying pan from Jill's kitchen. Put it on the stove, also inside of jill's place. The frying pan will kill in one hit.

The easiest way to kill this guy is to hide behind the racks with stuff on them. There are two that you can pickup, but don't. Stay behind them and wait until Cletus reloads. He shoots about 8 times, and then reloads. You can pop out and shoot him or run up and grab a shotgun real fast. If you get too close he picks you up and throws you. So hide behind the signs and he will drop to the floor and roll around behind the counter. After a couple times of rolling around he will pop up again. Keep firing from behind the signs and you will be safe. If he moves to the other side of the store, move to the opposite side. There are tons of signs so pick any of them.

The convicts are the guys driving the Hummer with the m60 on the back firing at the survivors. They are located in the park. Get behind something - cover is the key. I hid behind a tree. Take out the gunner - it takes about 5 shots. The convicts are easy, like zombies. A couple shots and they drop. After the gunner is dead, run up and take the heavy machine gun off the Hummer. Sometimes the guys get stuck on a tree, so then is a good time to go for it. After you kill the gunner, aim for the driver. Once again 5 shots or so, and the guy is dead. Then the baseball guy is all yours. The machine gun comes off but won't fit in your inventory. So its either machine gun or hummer fun. Enjoy your new offroad vehicle, it runs zombies over easily.

Steven is a fat guy, pushing an ultra heavy shopping cart. You have as much life as you want in the supermarket. The thing you don't want though, is to be seen on top of the shelves, that's when he pulls out a shotgun. He's really accurate too. Try to stay near the dairy, and he will charge at you with the cart. That's when you unload on him with with anything long range you have. Keep repeating, and if he gets close run to the other side of a isle or a container or something. Hes fairly easy and only pulls out his shotgun if you are truly unreachable by his cart.

This is the first boss. You're in a food court, and a food court has.. food in it. So of course he is easy once you get ahold of the controls. Brad and you are behind some coveras normal getting shot at by the crazy carlito. He has a machine gun and grenades. Brad will give you more ammo and pistols if you run out. Try to stay behind stuff like a chair or a wall and peek out to fire at the maniac when he's on the top of a food place. He runs between the 3 windows in the middle. You can shoot him from behind, but he does see you, and once again you'll get full of lead by his machine gun. Keep firing at him through the windows. After about 20-30 shots he's defeated, then the cut scene of him escapeing commences!

This is the second time you run into Carltio. Your story may be different. He's in the Entrance Plaza and Brad runs up and hits you in the back. Oh no whats that? Oh its the crazy old fart who tried hitting you with a cane hanging. So what do we do? We go to save him! Carltio has a Barret, aka huge sniper rifle. He sits around 50-60 feet away on the second floor. Go up the stairs with Brad and stay behind the pillars. Sometimes the trees get in the way but just sit back and snipe. Carlito stays in that one area. Shoot him once or twice and he runs in a circle. Run back and then to another pillar. Shoot him 3 times, and then run to the next pillar. Repeat, and repeat. He falls pretty easy. Then another cutscene happens. No spoiler here... Even though this guy was an asshole.

Megaman Helmet: No achievement needed, it's just there to complete your outfit.

To unlock this achievement you must wait until Jessie turns into a zombie and when you visit her she will try to attack you. All you need to do is simply take a picture of her and you unlocked "Snuff Shot J."

After Beating the game, you unlock overtime mode. Play overtime mode and collect a lot of food. Your health will gradually decrease after time even if you're not doing anything, so remember food. Also, food does not spawn in infinite stock piles like in Columbian Roastmasters or the food court. Anyway, the item that I'm talking about is unlocked after spending five days in the mall in overtime mode. The item is... a laser sword! It spawns in the security room and its called the everlasting energy sword!

Ending E - Fail to show up at the heli-port at 12 a.m. and don't solve all of the cases.

Ending F - Fail to collect all of Carlitos bombs while doing Case 7, "Bomb Collector."

"Hella Copter" Achievement

To unlock the "Hella Copter" achievement, First you have to wait until day three, when the Special Forces arrive. Then you should go to the north plaza's gun shop, grab a sniper rifle, and go outside, in the park. Wait until the helicopter is looking in your direction, then zoom in to its cockpit and unload. This should unlock the, "Hella Copter" achievement.

Infinity Mode - Obtain the "true ending"

Overtime Mode - Finish the first 72 hours of Frank's stay in the mall and return to the helipad by noon on the 22nd

When your fighting a boss, make sure you have somewhere to eat and drink in a different part of the mall. When you need health go to the other part of the mall, get the health, then go back to the boss. The boss will have the same health, and also. You won't loose your mission.

Megaman's REAL Job

Check your watch. If you look very carefully, you will see a logo and 'MEGAMAN' under the twelve 'o clock point.

∞ Mode (20) - Get the true ending.

Carjacker (20) - Steal the convicts' vehicle.

Perfect Gunner (20) - Don't miss with a machine gun.

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