because they really got your adrenaline going in dead rising
slow zombies cant work well in a large area, at best you will get something programmed on a large scale to bee line at you or have minor "standby" actions and thats it, and that just isnt scary. the best thing dead rising had going for it was a brief romp around a mall with a bunch of crap to throw at people. in the long run of a videogame this doesnt work. thats why valve had to introduce the special infected in left 4 dead, a small break like dead rising is fun, but could never be scary. The traditional slow zombie works in films but as the one single enemy in a videogame it cannot keep the player involved. its why you have lickers and hunters and such in resident evil, or the aliens in half life. because the control is in part of the player and not an actor there is no linear progression, even less so in a sandbox game, which results in aimless wandering through what on the whole must be an unchanging world.
I could see a few variations to the gameplay like "drive this truck to this hospital to get supplies" or "oh no, the safe house has been broken into, time to evacuate and find another one" but on the whole the very nature of it will ensure linearity. you may have a sandbox map but you will always just be doing "point a to b and back" runs and it would grow very tiresome very fast.
I could see how that could appeal to people of a more isolationist nature, to live out there "epic zombie survival plan" but as an entertaining videogame it limits itself far too much to be anything more than a brief niche novelty.
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