Dead Rising 5/Story Mode

Dead Rising 5 Story Mode, also called 168 Hours Mode, is the main game mode in Dead Rising 5, which can be played in both singleplayer and multiplayer mode. Story Mode in this game is way longer than it was in the previous chapters. Like in the past, the mode is time-limited; now the only difference is that the time limit is of 168 hours (one week; around 14 hours in real life).

Story Mode consists in various chapters, called Cases, in which the major events of the story happen. Completing a Case means that the player has made a step more in the completion of the story and in the discover of the truth behind the zombie outbreak occurred in Paradise Island, the main setting of the game. In the final Case, called The Facts, the truth will be revealed. Each case is time-limited, meaning that if the player doesn't complete it in time he will fail the story and won't be able to continue it anymore, unless he loads his game or starts a new one. Depending on the game choices made by the player during the Story Mode and the number of Cases solved, the game will end with different endings, which can be both good or bad. Completing the Story Mode will unlock Overtime Mode. Note that Dead Rising 5 does not follow the events of Dead Rising 4.

The protagonist of the Story Mode is traveler and writer Hank J. Tonys.

Introduction
The introduction takes place on August 19th, 2024. Traveler and writer Hank J. Tonys and his photographer friend Alexander Hollan are on a rental boat in the Pacific Ocean. They're heading to Paradise Island, the last place they must visit in Oceania in order to finally publish their book about their experiences and travels in the continent. They arrive there at 12 pm after docking their boat in the small port of Paradise Harbor and quickly take a look at the environment: they are immediately surprised by the beautiful sand beaches, modern and colored buildings, palm trees everywhere, stunning climate and the large amount of tourists as well. They do a walk on the port and then meet their local guide named Mickey Rounders. Hank and Alex tell him that they want to go to their hotel first so they can drop off their luggage there, have a shower and then go somewhere to eat. Mickey takes them to their destination and they tell him to wait fifteen minutes outside the building, so he gives Hank and Alex the time to do their things. Once in their luxurious and clean sea-view room, they publish a post on their social media about their arrival in Paradise Island to then talk about their programs on the island.

It's 12:16 pm when the zombie outbreak occurs. Hank and Alex are almost ready to leave the hotel and explore Ingot Hope, the only city in Paradise Island which counts around one million residents. They're preparing their bags and are about to leave their room when they hear some heavy noises coming from the other rooms, like if something is hitting the walls. They first ignore those sounds but after a few seconds the noises become screams. They get out of the room to see what's going on and see people running in the halls screaming and people being eaten by zombies. Shocked, they quickly pick up their stuff and make their way through the zombies, which have now surrounded the building outside. They reach the reception and see that the entrance is full of zombies. So they run away and leave the edifice using the emergency exit. Hank and Alex realize that the zombies haven't just invaded the hotel: they've also invaded the city. There's people screaming and trying to kill the undead everywhere; there are explosions, car accidents and total chaos; in the background there's an emergency siren playing. Alex suggests Hank to find Mickey and get in his car. However, they find him dead and his car gone. So they run away and luckily find a truck, in which they get in. Using a map of Paradise Island, they locate a safe zone where they must go: the Quarantine Area. So they start the truck and make their way through the huge horde of zombies. However, while they are driving, the vehicle slows down due to the large amount of zombies in front of it and an undead drags Alex out of the truck. Alex manages to escape from him and goes up a car. Hank would want to save him but there are way too many monsters; so he sadly leaves him there. Now that he's alone, Hank manages to get inside the Quarantine Area before its huge gate gets closed by some security agents, with his truck barely working. He gets off the car and meets other survivors, while he hears lots of moans coming from the zombies outside. Then, a security agent tells everyone to enter inside a shelter where they'll be safe.

Case 1.1: Supplies Run
Hank is now inside the cement shelter, in which survivors get divided in safe rooms. Hank, in the meanwhile, sits on a chair thinking about what a piece of idiot he was when he left Alex, hoping that he's still alive. Then he stands up and he's about to reach the other survivors, when someone calls him. The man who called him is Warren Jones, the security chief, who tells Hank that he knows him and that he has read some of his books. A bit later, Warren enters the monitors room, controlled by his partner Samantha Stinger, and would want to call for help with his radio transmitter when he gets an emergency call from a colleague, who tells him that the storage room has been robbed and that now food supplies are minimum. In that exact moment, Hank enters the room telling them that he can go outside and look out for food in a supermarket. Warren and Samantha don't want him to do so but after a while they let him go. Hank, however, says that he wants something in exchange when he comes back. Samantha also gives Hank a radio transmitter in case she sees someone on the monitors. After getting the supplies, Hank returns to the shelter and tells Warren and Samantha that he wants to find his friend Alex, being almost sure that he's still alive. Warren then talks with the military and says that if he doesn't find any boat at the port he'll ask the army to send rescue choppers. So he asks Hank if he can get him to Paradise Harbor and he accepts.

Case 1.2: Quicker Escape
Hank and Warren reach Paradise Harbor to see if there are any boats left, but there isn't even a single one: they've been all stolen. So they return to the shelter and Warren requests the military to send rescue choppers: the army answers saying that they'll be in Paradise Island in 7 days. Meanwhile, Hank asks Samantha if she has seen Alex on the monitors but her answer is negative. So now Hank must wait Samantha.

Case 1.3: First Evidence
Hank receives a call from Samantha, who tells him that she has seen someone resembling Alex. So he returns to the shelter and watches the footage of Alex. He sees him tied up and being dragged by someone inside the Harvest Art Gallery, in Flymonth. Shocked, he must now save his friend before it's too late.

Case 1.4: A Friend In Need
Hank heads to the Harvest Art Gallery, and enters inside a painting gallery where he sees a man painting something on a canvas. Hank also notices Alex tied up and with a piece of adhesive tape on his mouth. Hank gets the man's attention, who then reveals to be an artist called Hector Dougman. Hank discovers that Hector has kidnapped Alex because he can't find any red paint and he must finish his masterpiece immediately. So Hank has to fight him and once that Hector has died he frees Alex and they hug. Then, Hank brings back Alex to the shelter where they're now both safe.

Case 2.1: Suspicious Happenings
Hank, Alex, Warren and Samantha are all in the Monitors Room. They're watching the news on TV while Hank writes things on his note book. Samantha asks him what he's writing and Hank answers saying that he is writing about the zombie outbreak. A few seconds later, a news report shows on TV about Paradise Island, communicating people that help for survivors will arrive in 7 days and that in the meanwhile it is still not clear how to zombie outbreak occurred. Then there is an interview with a famous billionaire businessman, who is now in New York and built Ingot Hope: he's Hammond Borglum, who tells survivors that he's very sorry for what happened and that he wishes the best for them. Once the news report ends, the four people talk about the start of the outbreak: it happened very unexpectedly and nobody knows where zombies came from. So Alex tells them that in his opinion the outbreak wasn't an accident, because most of the former ones had been started on purpose. Hank agrees with his friend and says that they should investigate more. A few seconds later, Samantha notices on the monitors that some men dressed like SWAT members are inside the Paradise Economy Tower in the Business Center holding assault rifles. They think they're bank robbers and Hank goes out to discover what's happening.

Case 2.2: Investigation
Hank reaches the Paradise Economy Tower and sees a black Humvee outside. Suspicious, he enters the building and notices that there are two masked henchmen equipped with assault rifles defending the entrance of the building offices. They're talking and Hank hides behind a desk to hear their conversation. They talk about connecting to servers and transfer all of their data into a laptop, so they can follow their boss' orders. Hank defeats them and then reaches the offices where he meets other henchmen. After defeating all of them, he enters the enormous servers room and sees a laptop on the floor connected to them through many cables. He sees what's on its screen: the data collected from the servers is being transferred to an anonymous user. Hank is interested and picks up the laptop and returns to the shelter with it to tell Warren, Samantha and Alex what he has found out.

Case 2.3: Anonymous Transfer
Hank returns to the shelter and explains everything to Alex, Warren and Samantha. They are surprised by that and Alex suggests to continue investigating to discover more about the outbreak; Warren, however, says that he won't join them and that the investigation will only be their business. He also warns Hank and Alex to be careful: he doesn't want his shelter in trouble because of them. Meanwhile, a man watches the recordings of the Paradise Economy Tower and sees his henchmen dead. He wonders who's damaging his plan.

Case 3.1: Translating The Code
Hank receives a call from Alex, who tells him that he has met a survivor in the shelter who is a software developer, which means that he could be able to hack the laptop and discover who's hiding behind that anonymous user. Hank meets the survivor, Dave Bowen, who accepts hacking the laptop. Now Hank must wait for results.

Case 4.1: Loud Noises
Hank is inside the Monitors Room along with Samantha and Warren, who is sleeping. They're watching TV again, which is currently showing another interview with Hammond Borglum, saying that with the Paradise Island zombie outbreak he's battling bankrupt. After a few seconds, they hear an explosion coming above their heads and see the whole place shaking like if there was an earthquake. Hank and Warren immediately get out and see that there's fire near the entrance of the shelter. They look out for who has lighted up the fire and see a girl with a bandana carrying grenades. That woman notices Hank and Warren and throws a grenade in order to make them explode; however they run away in time and the explosion doesn't reach them. Then the girl is gone. Alex gets out of the shelter as well and asks them if they are ok and what happened. So they return in the shelter and tell Samantha to look out for that woman after they describe her. They are now all wondering what's going on in Paradise Island.

Case 4.2: Progresses
Hank returns to Dave and asks him if he has discovered something. He says not and that he needs more material in order to hack the laptop. So he suggest Hank to take him to the Lingard High School in North Parkins where he could certainly find what he's looking for.

Case 4.3: Meeting Again
Hank and Dave get on a modified pickup that has a turret and make their way trough the streets full of zombies to reach the Lingard High School. While they're driving, a gray light tank full of henchmen and driven by a military-dressed man hits their car. That stars a car chase and eventually a boss battle, in which Hank must use the vehicle turret in order to slow down the tank. The battle ends up with the tank having an accident. Hank and Dave then reach the university alive and enter the computers room. Here, they discover that the laptop had a tracking device. Hank tells Dave to stay in the room and continue with the hacking; meanwhile, Hank throws the tracking device in the sea. He then calls Warren telling him what has happened. At the same moment, the man dressed like a military who was driving the tank gets out of the vehicle and communicates his boss that he didn't manage to kill the target. The boss doesn't react positively and warns the man that if he fails another time “he will know what could happen”.

Case 5.1: Someone Out There
Hank receives a call from Samantha telling him to return to the shelter immediately. Once there, he sees someone resembling the woman who attacked the shelter the day before. She seems to be somewhere in the Tropical Forest. Now Hank must find her.

Case 5.2: The Dangerous Woman
Hank finds the woman in the Tropical Forest. When she notices him, she gets mad and grabs two tomahawks to kill Hank, saying that he won't survive. That triggers a boss fight. After her defeat, the woman is injured and sits on the ground. She tells Hank to finish her like the American people did to her fellow inhabitants of Paradise Island. Hank is confused and tells her that he doesn't want to kill her but just wants to know why she had attacked the shelter; the woman says that she will speak only if Hank brings her there. She then reveals that her name is Nakira Virtul.

Case 5.3: New Questions
Hank brings Nakira to the shelter and then to Monitors Room. Once there, Warren starts to interrogate her; Hank would want to listen to her, but Dave calls him and asks him to come to the high school where he has been hacking the laptop as soon as possible.

Case 5.4: A Shocking Discover
Hank enters the computers room of the Lingard High School and talks to Dave. He reveals him that the person behind that anonymous user is Hammond Borglum, the founder of Ingot Hope, and that the data the henchmen were transferring was actually billions of money and other important information about the island economy. He also tells Hank that he has found a video on the laptop called “Delete”, which he transferred into a tape. Shocked, Hank takes both the laptop and tape with him and brings Dave back to the shelter. He must now wait for Warren to finish the interrogatory with Nakira.

Case 6.1: Two Identities
Hank enters the Monitors Room ready to explain what Dave has discovered. But first, Nakira quickly sums up what happened. Before Ingot Hope was created, Paradise Island was a quiet island where less than two hundred indigenous people lived. Hammond Borglum, who was a rich businessman, decided to take over Paradise Island to transform it into a tourist holiday location in order to make very high profits. However, the natives didn't want to leave their home so Hammond used zombies to kill them; that way, nobody would have never known anything about it. Nakira was the only native who survived, hiding in the Tropical Forest. Then, Hammond built the city which became one of the most famous tourist attractions worldwide in a few years. Then, she says, the zombie outbreak occurred. She thinks that Hammond might have caused it, but she's not sure and doesn't know why he would have done that. She also explains that she attacked the shelter in a moment of wrath. Surprised, Hank reveals Nakira, Warren and Samantha who's behind the anonymous user. Nakira, at that point, is sure that Hammond caused the outbreak, since the appearance of his henchmen during the natives massacre and the server hacking in the Business Center was the same. However, the reason why Hammond started the outbreak is still unknown. Soon after those revelations, Alex is heard screaming in the hall: he's being attacked by a zombified Dave. Warren kills him shooting his head with a pistol and Alex is safe. They all wonder how he got infected; then Nakira sees he got stung by a queen: that was the same method Hammond's men used to infect the natives so they could turn them into zombies.

Case 7.1: Hardware Inspection
Hank receives a call from Alex, telling him that he needs to talk with him. So he gets back to the shelter and reaches the Safe Room 4, where he meets Alex and Nakira using the laptop Dave hacked. They tell Hank that Dave, before dying, told Alex that he managed to find other important information inside the computer hardware. In fact, there's a folder there called PLANS where there's everything they need to know about Hammond's activities.

Then Hank remembers that Dave gave him a tape and tells his friends to put it inside a recorder on a TV in the room. The three start watching the tape's video, which is a recording of what seems to be an office. Inside the office there are four people: Hammond Borglum, a man dressed with a black suit, a tall and muscular man dressed like a military who was the same who was driving the tank back in Case 4, and a man dressed like a doctor. The date in which the tape got recorded is 12 August 2024, seven days before the outbreak started. During the video, the doctor explains the other men his project about controllable zombies using a wireless device connected to microchips, saying it is perfect for Hammond's plan. Then the doctor leaves and the recording finishes showing Hammond talking with the military-dressed man, telling him that he won't regret betraying the US army. Hank, Alex and Nakira are all confused and understand that everything is getting very complicated.

At the end Alex and Nakira tell Hank that they will now analyze all of the folder content and inform him about their discoveries.

Case 7.2: A Scripted Tragedy
Hank receives a call from Nakira telling him to return to the shelter immediately. Once in Monitors Room, along with Alex, Warren and Samantha, Nakira shows everybody what she has found with Alex in the PLANS folder. The folder has just one document written with numbers; thanks to Dave's work, however, they managed to translate the text and discovered that is a huge list of things Hammond's henchmen have to do day per day, hour per hour, minute per minute. They're all shocked and see an endless amount of dates and programs, most of which consist in transferring data from banks and companies. However, those aren't the most surprising ones; the document also says that during Day 6, at 3:00 pm, the henchmen will have to go to an underground laboratory which is connected to the Majestic Mall. Hank, Alex and Nakira decide to go there and find out what it contains before the henchmen arrive.

Case 7.3: The Secret Lab
Hank takes Alex and Nakira to the Majestic Mall and reach the third warehouse, where they find a large gate which they manage to break. The gate leads to an elevator that takes them inside the secret laboratory. There, they find themselves inside a huge laboratory full of beds on which they find zombie corpses and locked queens. Nakira says that this is probably the place where Hammond's men started the outbreak. They also notice that there are some fishes, and they don't understand why. While Hank and Nakira investigate, Alex takes pictures. Hank and Nakira are specifically looking for some documents with more details about the laboratory, so they start searching.

Case 7.4: Bloody Researches
Hank and Nakira manage to find some folders inside the laboratory, which contain a lot of documents about queens, zombies, and the mysterious electrical zombies seen in the tape recording. While the two are investigating, Alex keeps taking pictures and then zooms in the entrance. He sees that Hammond's henchmen have arrived. After that they get defeated, the man dressed like a doctor seen in the tape recording, Professor Horace Philips, shows up, after that he was hiding under a table. The three immediately assault him accusing him of helping Hammond; the professor tells them to calm as he will explain them what really happened. So he tells Hank, Alex and Nakira that he was a very skilled scientist that was forced to work for Hammond because he didn't want him to kill his family. So he had to collaborate with the businessman in his plan to create a new and improved type of zombies which Hammond needed at all costs. One day, however, he managed to escape from Hammond and he was trying to hide from him until Hank, Alex and Nakira found him. When Horace is about to reveal them more, some gas gets released from the lab rooftop and they all start coughing. Then, many henchmen with gas masks enter inside the place and knock Hank, Alex, Nakira and the professor out.

Case 8.1: Captured
<p lang="en-US">Hank wakes up on a laboratory bed and his arms and legs are blocked by some cuffs. He sees that there's a henchman next to him, standing up. He tells Hank that he finally woke up. Then he receives a call from someone asking him some questions. While the henchman is talking at the phone, Hank manages to free himself and once that the call is over he kills him. He then analyzes the place, understanding that he's inside another underground laboratory, this time in a vast underground facility. He also sees a map on a table, which shows that there are some cells inside the facility. So now Hank must reach them in order to free his friends. A little time later, a siren starts playing and a megaphone announces that someone has escaped.

Case 8.2: Deeper Revelations
Hank reaches the entrance of the Cells Section but notices that its armored gate is closed. So he notices an open ventilation pipe. He enters inside it and after a while he stops as he hears a voice. He looks at a vent-hole and sees the military-dressed man he saw in the tape recording, Commander Isaac Maurice, who screams saying to bring someone in the room he's in. Soon, two henchmen carrying Horace Philips enter the room and hang Horace to a wall. Then Isaac talks to the professor saying that he betrayed Hammond and that now he knows what happens to betrayers. Horace replies saying that the Commander is a betrayer too because he betrayed the US army joining Hammond because of money and power. Isaac laughs and then kills the professor electrocuting him with two electrical sticks and ripping his head off. Then he leaves the room along with the henchmen after informing Hammond of the assassination of Horace using a radio transmitter. Hank is disgusted and proceeds through the vents. After entering in various rooms and defeating some henchmen, Hank reaches a large room in which he finds a huge control panel. There, he looks for the commands to open the entrance of the Cells Wing. He finds it and opens the gate. Soon after, some henchmen break in the room and start shooting with their assault rifles in order to kill Hank, who reacts by escaping as fast as possible. He reaches a enormous room, the Core Room, which contains the main control panels. Soon after entering it, Hank gets hit by an electrical stick and falls down, injured. The man who hurt him is Commander Maurice. He says that nobody leaves that place alive and then reaches the control panel and closes the doors of the room using it. Meanwhile, Hank gets up and sees that Isaac called the henchmen to join him and kill his enemy. After that Hank defeats the henchmen, he fights Isaac in a boss battle.

Case 8.3: The Commander
Hank defeats Isaac. The commander is hurt and falls down hitting the control panel, erroneously opening the doors in the room and activating the self-destruction of the facility, which should explode in three minutes. So Hank gets out of the Core Room very quickly and manages to finally reach the Cells Wing, where he frees both Alex and Nakira. Then, they all escape from the facility and find themselves inside the warehouses of the Majestic Mall. In the meanwhile, the Commander is stuck in the room as the self-destruction countdown reaches only a few seconds. Hank, Alex and Nakira close the gate where they got out from the facility and hear the explosion, in which Isaac dies. The three then decide to return to the shelter after their misadventure. Hank must now wait for news in order to proceed.

Case 9.1: Arrival
<p lang="en-US">Hank receives a call from Warren telling him to reach him above a condominium rooftop in Flymonth. Once there, Warren brings Hank a binoculars and he sees three dark gray helicopters flying around the Lucky District. One helicopter then lands on top of the Luxury Falls Hotel and Hank sees Hammond Borglum getting out of it. He immediately leaves the rooftop and communicates what's happening to Alex and Nakira using his radio transmitter.

Case 9.2: Last Step
<p lang="en-US">Hank reaches the Lucky District and sees that there are henchmen there shooting at zombies with turrets above their Humvees. Hank hides behind a barrier in order to avoid being seen. Then a megaphone on a wall announces with Hammond's voice that their henchmen must now rob all of the casinos money in the Lucky District and then put it inside the helicopters. Then the announcement concludes and Alex and Nakira reach Hank, explaining him that the casinos robberies weren't in PLANS. So they team up to stop Hammond's men and destroy their helicopters.

Case 9.3: Sky Robbery
<p lang="en-US">After stopping the henchmen and destroying two helicopters, Hank, Alex and Nakira return outside and interrogate an injured henchman. They tell him to reveal Hammond's location: he says that he's inside the Luxury Falls Hotel dining room. So they must now reach him and finally discover everything.

Case 9.4: Direct Talk
Hank, Alex and Nakira make their way through the henchmen and enter a large dining room where they find a dead Hammond Borglum laid on the floor. Confused, Hank notices that the body it's just a mannequin. Disappointed, they then remember that they must check out the roof. Once there they notice that Hammond's helicopter is gone. However, they find a small ticket which says: “Underground Laboratory, 12:00 am”

The Facts
Hank, Alex and Nakira are now all inside the secret laboratory again. When the clock hits 12:00 am, a TV with a large screen behind them turns on and shows Hammond sitting on a chair. He says that he has finally found who's interrupting his job in Paradise Island: Hank Tonys. However, he says that he's not angry since Hank has proven to be a skilled man so he could be useful to him. Hank then reveals Hammond that they know that he has started the outbreak and that he has all of the necessary material to incriminate him. Hammond laughs and says that Hank didn't make his own business. Then Nakira shows up and says that she wants revenge for what Hammond has done to the natives of Paradise Island and that Hank has been helping her to obtain justice. After a few seconds of silence, Hank asks Hammond the final question: why he has started the outbreak. Hammond explains that he didn't want to start it in the first place. The tourism in Paradise Island was making huge profits but Hammond felt that he could have done more. So he saw how strong the zombies were as a weapon and decided to start another outbreak to steal money from the island. With that money, Hammond wanted to hire a research team with the world's best scientists in order to develop new and improved zombies that could swim. That way, he would be able to take over the whole Pacific. This insane project would let him gain access to the whole Pacific commerce and economy, making him even richer. But not only that: zombies would prove to be the strongest thing ever existed and Hammond would have been its owner. Hank, Alex and Nakira are all shocked and disgusted by Hammond's cruelty and avidity. Hammond then has two offers for Hank and his friends: they can decide to stay silent about the whole thing, saving their lives; or they can decide to the opposite and die. Hank says that he wants to reveal everything because he hasn't done all of that investigations for nothing and also because he thinks that Hammond would kill him even if he stays silent. So the businessman says that Hank has chosen the faster way, and that he thinks that killing him is a shame because of his investigation abilities. Then Hank says that he wants to show his abilities to other people. Hammond is confused, and asks Hank what he's talking about. He answers pulling out an internet router, that he always had inside his backpack. He reveals Hammond that all this time he has been publishing all the incriminating material about him on the internet, and that in around twelve hours this process should be completed. That's why Hammond becomes mad and tells Hank one last thing: he just signed a death request. Then the TV turns off. Alex and Nakira are surprised by Hank's words and they now discuss about what to do now. They realize that the only thing left to do is waiting for the army to arrive in Paradise Island, so they exit the laboratory to reach the shelter.

<p lang="en-US">While Hank, Alex and Nakira are heading back to the shelter, everyone inside it is waiting for the rescue choppers to arrive. In the Monitors Room, Warren suggests Samantha to stop checking the monitors since she looks very tired and that it is unlikely to see a survivor at that time. So Samantha decides to sleep on a small sofa in the room. Warren then gets out of there letting her relax in peace. While walking in a hall, he sees a man dressed with a black suit and black glasses heading to the entrance of the storage that contains fuel supplies. Warren stops him and says that only the security staff can access that room. He also asks him if he's new at the shelter since he has never seen him before. The man says yes and turns. Warren thinks he will go away but he's wrong: that man quickly pulls out a silenced handgun and shoots three bullets in Warren's chest. Warren falls on the floor, hurt; meanwhile, the man who shot him enters inside the fuel storage and activates a bomb inside it. Then he slams the door of the room, which noise wakes up Samantha who decides to go out to see what's going on; she sees Warren on the floor and the man who shot him. Samantha is about to scream but the assassin shoots a bullet to her head that kills her. Then the man escapes from the shelter running. The bomb should explode in ten minutes.

<p lang="en-US">It's 12:23 am, 27th August, when Hank, Alex and Nakira reach the entrance of the Quarantine Area. They notice that the maintenance door that Hank always uses to get outside from the Quarantine Area is closed. Hank has the key to open it and checks his pockets to find it; however, he fails saying that he must have lost it when he was battling Hammond's henchmen. So he pulls out his radio transmitter to ask Samantha to open the door using the shelter commands; but he doesn't get any answers, just a suspicious silence. So Hank tries again but gets the same result. A few seconds later, Hank, Alex and Nakira hear people screaming from the Quarantine Area. So they break the door and see that the security staff is evacuating the shelter. Meanwhile, a siren plays. Hank tells Alex and Nakira to stay with the other survivors while he talks with a security agent. He asks him what's happening and he answers to check it out with his own eyes, telling him that he should know it. Then he sees two paramedics transporting a severely injured Warren. Hank swears and understands that Hammond has done something while he was absent from the Quarantine Area. So he enters the empty shelter where there's just a red alarm illuminating the place. He goes near the Monitors Room entrance and sees Samantha's corpse on the floor. Then he enters the fuel storage room and sees the bomb, that should explode in two minutes. So he runs away and quickly gets out of there. He reaches the other survivors and covers his ears. The others do the same. However, the bomb doesn't explode when it should have. So Hank and a security agent check out what happened and see that the bomb timer has stopped at one second. Confused, they return outside and soon after Hank receives a call. It's Hammond, who communicates him that he must give him his laptop and internet router or he will start the bomb again and the whole island will blow up, since he placed other bombs all over the city. He has two hours to do so, and he must meet him inside a warehouse in Paradise Harbor. Hammond ends the communication telling him that this is his last chance to survive. Hank is destroyed and sits on the ground telling Alex and Nakira what happened. He understands how much he put all the survivors in danger with his actions.

Bring The Laptop And The Router
<p lang="en-US">Hank reaches Paradise Harbor. There, he finds some henchmen standing outside the entrance of the warehouse where he must meet Hammond. Before he enters, the henchmen examine Hank's body to see if he carries any weapons. He doesn't so they let him in. Inside the warehouse, he meets other henchmen protecting the place. Then, after a few steps, he finds Hammond and, next to him, his bodyguard, Glenn Lurgoth, who is the one who killed Samantha and injured Warren. Hank gives Hammond the laptop and the internet router. He tells an henchman to pick up the laptop and go. Then, he gives the internet router to Glenn, saying that he knows what to do with it. Glenn smashes the router on the floor and destroys it by stepping on it. Then Hammond warns Hank saying that if he won't stay silent from now on he will know what could happen. Hank understands and leaves the warehouse, to then reach the Quarantine Area. There, he explains Alex and Nakira how the meeting went and that everything should be over now. He also meets an angry Warren, who is mad because he knows that Hank caused Samantha's death and that he had warned him about doing his own business. Hank tells him to calm down and explains him that now he fixed everything and that he's very sorry for what happened. For Warren that isn't enough but he calms after that Hank tells him that if he didn't uncover the truth Hammond would have done other horrible things. Hank then asks him how he managed to survive and Warren explains that he had a bulletproof vest that broke after the second shot. The shelter has been closed and now everybody is outside waiting for the military to arrive.

Military Arrival
<p lang="en-US">It's 9:00 am, 27th August 2024 when the the army arrives in Paradise Island. Military boats dock at Paradise Harbor and start killing all zombies; they kill them very easily until their eyes seem to be turning red. The zombies become way more aggressive and start killing the military, who are trying to get rid of them; it's useless, however. Meanwhile, some rescue choppers have already arrived at the Quarantine Area. Hank, Alex, Nakira and Warren are the last ones who must be saved. There are only two seats available in the current helicopter so Hank tells Alex and Nakira to go and save their lives. They all hug and then Alex and Nakira leave Paradise Island. Hank and Warren must now wait for the last helicopter that will take them back home. In the mean time, the military are getting killed by the zombies which now seem to be inexplicably stronger. After that most of the army sent in the island is dead, Hammond's henchmen continue by destroying the military boats. Then they get inside their Humvees, where Hammond commands them to pick up all the money that they can find.

<p lang="en-US">Meanwhile, Hank and Warren talk about the useless efforts made by him in order to uncover the truth. While talking, the last helicopter arrives. They enter it and after a while they start flying. After a few seconds, Glenn shows up inside the helicopter. Warren recognizes him and Glenn starts shooting with his silenced handgun. He misses both Hank and Warren and accidentally kills the pilot. Nobody among them knows how to pilot a chopper so Warren tries to take control of it, while Hank tries to get Glenn out of the helicopter. Hank fights Glenn in a boss fight and after a while he pulls out his pistol again and this time he shoots Warren in his shoulder. He is injured and can't control the helicopter anymore. So the chopper starts to go down while Hank and Glenn keep fighting. Then the helicopter blades hits a building near Masserhall and the helicopter is now about to crash. Glenn quickly picks up a parachute and he's about to jump from the falling chopper; however Hank manages to attach a rope with a hook on his parachute before he can do so. Glenn doesn't notice it and jumps out; the rope however moves due to the fall of the helicopter and takes Glenn next to the helicopter blades, which kill him by cutting his body. Then Hank tries to save Warren but he screams that it is too late and that Hank must go; so he jumps out and escapes from the explosion. The helicopter is now surrounded by flames. Warren and Glenn are both dead. Hank is hurt and manages to get up after the violent impact. He sees that his only way of escape is destructed. He's on top of a condominium rooftop, and there's the destroyed helicopter behind him. Near the helicopter there's Glenn's corpse which still has the rope. Hank looks at the chopper and thanks Warren telling him to rest in peace.

<p lang="en-US">Then, seeing that the military has failed and that there are lots of zombies below him, he falls on his knees, thinking that it's over.

Overtime Mode
<p lang="en-US">It's 10:00 am, 27th August 2024. Hank is still on top of the rooftop, thinking that he's stuck in Paradise Island. However, he hears a voice coming from Glenn's radio transmitter which he carried in his belt. The voice asks if Glenn has completed his job. Hank picks up the radio transmitter from Glenn's lifeless body and recognizes Hammond's voice. Hank tells Hammond that his bodyguard is dead and that he wants to make him pay for the terrible things he has done and he will do in the future. Hammond can't believe that Hank is still alive and tells him that it is impossible for him to survive since Hammond is now able to control the zombies in whatever way he likes; they're also way stronger and faster now. He also says that he will blow up the island at 7:00 pm, just the time to prepare all of his things and leave Paradise Island. Hank finishes the call telling him that they'll see. He puts the radio transmitter in his pocket and soon after he sees that there is a black Humvee not too far from him. Hank thinks that it might contain some information about Hammond's location.

Examine The Humvee
<p lang="en-US">Hank checks out the Humvee and examines its interior. He finds a tablet that contains a map in which there are all of the bombs locations. He notices that they are all connected to a huge underground structure in the middle of Paradise Island. He gets out from the vehicle and see that some henchmen have arrived.

Deactivate The Bombs
<p lang="en-US">Hank enters the Paradise Bank following the map's indications to reach the structure that connects all the bombs. Once there, he encounters many henchmen. He takes them out and sees a huge metallic door. He needs a digital print in order to open it. So he uses a dead henchmen's hand to open the door and reaches an enormous laboratory. In this lab, there are lots of henchmen working on computers and scientists who are preparing to leave. Hank notices that there are two scientists talking about destroying the definitive cure created by Isabela Keyes. Once there are less people, Hank kills the henchmen and examines the place. He reaches the structure, which is an gigantic database, and accesses to it trying to deactivate the bombs. When he's about to press the “Deactivate” button, he gets hit with a sledgehammer from behind. It's Hammond, who tells him that it's over for him. Hank says that he won't let him escape, but Hammond ignores him and open some doors which release the new improved zombies, while he uses an elevator to leave informing him that this is the place where he created the controlled zombies. Hank makes his way through the monsters and deactivates the bombs. So he uses the elevator as well and reaches the second floor of the Maylon Tower Hotel, the highest building in Paradise Island. There, he fights with henchmen and zombies and sees on the monitors that Hammond is going to the rooftop, which is still under construction.

Reach Hammond
<p lang="en-US">Hank enters an elevator which takes him to the rooftop of the Maylon Tower Hotel, where he has last seen Hammond using the monitors. Once there, he walks on the enormous rooftop and sees a platform under construction near the helicopter. Up there, he sees Hammond standing.

<p lang="en-US">The two men confront. Hammond tells Hank that he wanted the truth so bad that he didn't care for the consequences; Hank says that he doesn't and that he only wanted justice for all the families murdered with the outbreak. Hammond recognizes his courage and skills, however the two are deadly enemies. Hank then asks Hammond the true reason he started the outbreak, since he feels that his first explanation wasn't true because it felt way too general and random. Hammond explains that actually he wants revenge for something that happened some years before the outbreak in Paradise Island. Hammond was a rich businessman who came from a powerful family. He excelled in business and then started to get interested in politics. So he first became an important politician in the Congress, and then in 2022, after the Los Perdidos outbreak and president Paddock's death, the new presidential elections started. That was a golden opportunity for Hammond who decided to give all of his best in order to become the next president. His opponent was a politician named Jerome Garrett, who many people voted. In order to win the elections, Hammond built Ingot Hope to show the US the way he wanted to transform America: by reaching the perfect quality of life. This, however, wasn't enough and at the end Jerome was elected as the president. That made Hammond become insane after all of the efforts he had made. He started thinking that Jerome was just a corrupted imbecile who won the elections by using unfair methods, while he's actually a normal person who became president just because the majority of the citizen voted him. Hammond felt extremely depressed and disappointed and after a while he started planning his revenge. He realized that people in America are ignorant since they didn't vote a man like him who could have made so many things to improve the country, and thought that Jerome had brain-washed them. But he also realized another thing: zombies are a very efficient weapon. So he started working on them in order to make them unstoppable so that he could have used them to get revenge on Jerome, in a very unique way: Hammond, in fact, wants to invade all of the USA in order to kill Jerome and all of citizen, just for revenge for what they had done to him. Not only that: once that his plan is over and that all the people are dead, he wants to found the American society again, this time following all of his orders.

<p lang="en-US">Hank is completely surprised and tells Hammond that he's just an insane and evil man who's just angry because someone is better than him. Then he asks him how is Isabela Keyes involved with the outbreak. Hammond explains that Isabela created the definitive cure for the zombies' bites after the outbreak in Los Perdidos so his scientists are working on improved zombies' bites in order to make them incurable, so that they would have become unstoppable. Then Hank screams saying that Hammond is a mass-murderer; Hammond replies saying that he's just doing this for the country and that even the most evil thing start with the greatest ideas. Hank then says that he's just lying and that there's nothing good about killing millions of innocent people. Hammond says that it is time to finish it off so he pulls out a minigun saying that he won't let anyone block his plans. That triggers the final boss fight in the game.

Defeat Hammond
<p lang="en-US">Hank defeats Hammond. The two men are on the platform and keep fighting. At the end Hank knocks out Hammond by hitting his face with a brick. He thinks that he's dead so he stops to take a deep breath. However, Hammond is still alive and quickly gets up to charge Hank. He hits him and they both fall from the platform and break trough a big glass dome. They fall down but manage to pick up a rope. Hammond is under Hank, while below both of them there are lots of zombies. Hank tries to get Hammond off him; he resists, however. Hammond pulls the rope to make both fall; in fact, Hammond says that if he dies, Hank must also die. Hank then sees a sharpened pipe above him; he picks it up and throws it to Hammond. The pipe pierces through Hammond's chest and he falls down. The zombies then start eating him. Meanwhile Hank manages to return to the rooftop, where he sees that Hammond's private helicopter has landed. The pilot of the chopper is out there looking for his boss; then he sees Hank looking at him, exhausted and hurt. He barely manages to stand up.

Endings
<p lang="en-US">This paragraph will cover all the endings available in Dead Rising 5. Only Ending A and Ending B can be achieved during Overtime Mode. All the endings that have been unlocked can be watched again through the “Extras” menu.

Ending A
<p lang="en-US">This is the true ending of Dead Rising 5, and in order to achieve it the player must complete Overtime Mode.

<p lang="en-US">Hank Tonys successfully escaped Paradise Island alive. His story and Nakira's became famous all over the world and president Jerome and the whole US government recognized Hammond's crimes. Along with Alexander and Nakira, Hank wrote a book called “Paradise Hell” where he covers all the details about the outbreak in Paradise Island and tells readers all of the things he has done during it. The book became a worldwide bestseller in a few days.

<p lang="en-US">After what happened in Paradise Island, the American government bombed the island and turned it into a natural zone. Scientists and other collaborators of Hammond got either arrested or killed under request of president Jerome Garrett and all of their studies got archived and after a few months were fully erased. Following the end of the outbreak, Isabela Keyes was freed by a special police unit who killed some of Hammond's men who kidnapped her in order to steal all of her work about the cure. After her rescue, Isabela explained she was threatened to get killed if she didn't let Hammond steal her researches.

<p lang="en-US">Also, Jerome's elections got reexamined in order to see if there was some truth behind Hammond's speculations, but no traces of corruption were found. As of today, the Paradise Island zombie outbreak is still remembered as one of the most tragic events ever occurred in the 21st century. The estimated number of victims caused by the outbreak almost hits two million people.

Ending B
<p lang="en-US">This ending can be achieved in two ways: the first requires the player not to bring the laptop and internet router to Hammond, while the second one requires the player not to deactivate the bombs during Overtime Mode. It starts with a cutscene in which Hammond is inside his private helicopter and tells the pilot to start flying. He does so and when they're in the air, Hammond activates the bombs and the island explodes.

<p lang="en-US">The destruction of Paradise Island erased all traces of survivors and zombies. This was a very unexpected event that shocked the whole world. And it shocked it even more after that the zombies suddenly invaded all of the United States, causing the government to fall and the death of president Jerome Garrett before he could escape. The zombies decimated around eighty percent of the country's whole population, and the armies sent by other nations in the US during its invasion failed to exterminate the threat.

<p lang="en-US">It took several years and the collaboration of multiple nations to eliminate all the zombies in the United States, and after the end of that nightmare businessman Hammond Borglum, who survived the zombie invasion by staying in Australia, was voted by those few people left in the country as the new president. To this day there is almost no information about the Paradise Island outbreak and most probably nobody will ever know the truth about what really happened.

Ending C
<p lang="en-US">This ending can be achieved only by completing all Cases except The Facts, and by being in time when the military arrives. It starts with a cutscene in which Hank, Alexander, Nakira, Warren and Samantha get inside a rescue helicopter, ready to finally go home. Once they're in the air, however, a rocket hits the chopper which precipitates and explodes, killing everybody inside it. Not too far from the Quarantine Area where the helicopter got destroyed, there are three men standing on a rooftop of a building: Glenn Lurgoth and two henchmen, one of which is carrying a rocket launcher. Soon after the helicopter crash Glenn pulls out a radio transmitter and informs Hammond that the targets he wanted dead have been eliminated. Then they leave the rooftop.

<p lang="en-US">Without any obstacles left, Hammond took control of Paradise Island and managed to steal all the money in it and then he proceeded with his plan developing a new type of zombies, which are stronger, faster and harder to kill. Those new zombies killed almost all of the soldiers sent in the island; the ones who survived were assassinated by Hammond's men.

<p lang="en-US">After two days, Hammond and his collaborators escaped from the island via helicopters and falsely told the government using the army's equipment that the military operation failed and that no other traces of survivors had been found. At the end, Paradise Island was firebombed by the US government. This led to the death of all of the zombies and the elimination of all of Hammond's activities in the island.

<p lang="en-GB">Following this occurrence, Hammond mysteriously disappeared and no information about him was ever discovered since then. Today it is still unknown how and why did the Paradise Island zombie outbreak occur.

Ending D
<p lang="en-US">This ending can be achieved only by completing all Cases until Case 8.1, and by being in time when the military arrives. It starts with a cutscene in which Hank, Alexander, Nakira, Warren and Samantha get inside a rescue helicopter, which successfully takes them home. Then, the cutscene continues and shows Hank inside the kitchen of his house, drinking a small mug of coffee. Then he takes a seat and pulls out his note block, in which he wrote all of his experiences in Paradise Island. He starts reading it, when a bullet breaks a window behind him and reaches his head, killing him instantly. Then Glenn Lurgoth enters the house, carrying the silenced pistol he used to kill Hank, and examines his backpack. He leaves the house once he has found Hammond's laptop, which Hank stole to uncover the truth behind the outbreak.

<p lang="en-US">Following Hank's death, Alexander, Warren and all of the other people who survived the Paradise Island zombie outbreak were found mysteriously assassinated. This long chain of killings had been called the “Survivors Extermination” and was such an complex and unexplainable case that even the most skilled detectives couldn't solve it. There was simply no information to work on.

<p lang="en-US">Another unbelievable mystery happened a few months after, in which many zombie outbreaks started all over the US. Unable to control the situation, chaos hit the American government, which president was replaced by Hammond Borglum, who managed to reestablish order and eliminated the zombies. About eighty percent of the country's population lost their lives during those outbreaks. Even today the start of the outbreaks in the whole US and in Paradise Island remain a mystery, along with the Survivors Extermination, an extremely complicated case that has been never continued.

Ending E
<p lang="en-US">This ending can be achieved by failing or completing all Cases until Case 5.4, and by being in time when the military arrives. It starts with a cutscene in which Hank, Warren, Samantha and other survivors get inside a rescue helicopter which successfully takes them home. Then the cutscene continues showing Hank inside his house, sitting on a sofa and watching TV. He turns it off after hearing that someone has knocked the door. He opens the door and sees zombies outside his house. So he tries to close it but the there too many monsters. So a zombie attacks Hank, who desperately tries to get rid of it, while other zombies enter his house and invade the whole neighborhood where he lives.

<p lang="en-US">People who thought the one occurred in Paradise Island was going to be the last outbreak were proven to be wrong. In fact, a few months after it a huge streak of other zombie outbreaks took place all over the United States. Those events put the country upside down and killed almost eighty percent of Americans.

<p lang="en-US">For ten years straight the country got infested by zombies, who also started to invade nearby nations. At the end, president Jerome Garrett, the last politician who survived the outbreak and escaped in Aruba, had to gave up and authorized other countries to build a nuclear bomb, which was then launched in 2035 in the United States in order to exterminate all zombies.

<p lang="en-US">Today the only thing left of what was once known as the USA is just a devastated and burned land with a radioactive atmosphere surrounding it. Still, no one knows the truth about what really happened.

Ending F
<p lang="en-US">This ending can be achieved by just not being in time when the military arrives. The story progression does not affect the ending. It starts with a cutscene in which Warren and Samantha notice that Hank has not returned to get in the rescue chopper. After a while, Hank still doesn't return so the two get inside a rescue helicopter along with other survivors.

<p lang="en-US">The survivors rescue by the military was a success. However, there wasn't Hank Tonys among them. After that they were saved and the military had left it, the government bombed Paradise Island in order to kill all zombies there.

<p lang="en-US">That was an act of ignorance. The explosions in the islands killed the zombies, but also spread the parasites in the sea, which transported them into other nearby lands. Fortunately, the parasites got exterminated in time before the worst could have happened.

<p lang="en-US">The US government had to admit to have done a mistake. As of today, however, the truth behind the Paradise Island zombie outbreak seems to have drowned in darkness.

Story Summary

 * Total number of Cases: 10 (including the facts)
 * Total number of Endings: 6
 * Total number of bosses and psychopaths: 6
 * Bosses and psychopaths:
 * 1) Hector Dougman
 * 2) Tank
 * 3) Nakira Virtul
 * 4) Commander Isaac Maurice
 * 5) Glenn Lurgoth
 * 6) Hammond Borglum