Dead Rising/Survivors

Frank West is a fictional photojournalist in the video game Dead Rising. He is also the main protagonist of the game. In Dead Rising, Frank finds himself in the biggest scoop of his career after hearing of a small town, Willamette, Colorado, being blockaded by the National Guard. Frank hires a helicopter, and flies over the town.

Frank first suspects that the civilians are rioting, but soon discovers otherwise. Frank asks the helicopter pilot to drop him on a roof of a shopping mall, and to pick him up in three days. He meets a strange man on the roof of the mall, and when asking the man what has happened here, he tells Frank to go in and see for himself. Once he's in the mall, he realizes though, this isn't just some riot. The town is infested with zombies, with him stuck in the middle of it. As he tries to help survivors, and win the Pulitzer Prize, he slowly starts to unravel the mystery behind the zombie infestation.

Survival in the Mall
Brad leaves Frank for a while, leaving Frank to explore some of the mall. As he ends up looking for survivors, he runs into a few "Psychopaths". Some are just misguided; the stress of the situation has made them fend for themselves, making them not trust anyone or anything. Some are just completely insane, regardless of whether it was the stress of the situation that turned them that way, or if they were just insane to begin with. Throughout the game, Frank (through the choices of the player) ends up dealing with a few Psychopaths and rescuing some survivors.

72 Hour Mode
The game starts by Frank going to Willamette searching for a scoop where he sees what looks like a riot and starts taking pictures. Interested, he tells the pilot to drop him off at the mall but are intervened by the Military helicopters. The pilot makes a hasty landing where Frank gets off and reminds him to pick him up in exactly 3 days(72 hours). After arriving at the mall, Frank is immediately met by a strange man named Carlito, who seems to know more than he is letting on. Frank then goes downstairs into the safety room and out through the door leading to the Entrace Plaza. There, are several survivors barricading the door with several different pieces of furniture. Frank helps out by getting more furniture at the back of the plaza where he sees Barnaby and takes a picture. While, an old lady worried about her dog sees the dog outside of the mall in the middle of the zombie crowd she suddenly starts ripping the barricade away, even though two men tried to stop her she was successful on letting the zombies in. The survivors slowly start getting overwhelmed, but Frank manage to escape onto the stairs and back into the safety room with Brad, Jessie, and Otis. In the Safety Room Otis fuses the door shut. Brad then leaves the Safety room and down the ventilations back into the mall to look for Carlito. As Jessie runs out to save Brad from an attacker, Frank accidently hurts her and Frank takes her place to save Brad. Jessie is hesitant about allowing a "civilian" to becoming involved, but she gives him her handgun after he assures her that he has experience with one by saying, "I've covered wars ya know". (Only minutes later, however, he admits that he's never actually fired a gun "at a person".)

Once reaching Brad, his attacker turns out to be Carlito, continously firing at him (and now also Frank) with a P90 machine gun. After Brad and Frank defeat him, Carlito takes off. While Frank presses Brad for info, Brad tells him nothing until Frank shows him a picture of Barnaby, which he took in the Entrance Plaze of the mall. Brad seems to have an interest in the photo. Since he does, Frank makes him a deal: Frank shows him the photo, if Brad tells him some info. Brad agrees, and Frank soon finds out both Jessie and Brad are DHS (Department of Homeland Security) agents.

Frank and Brad eventually go to find Dr. Barnaby, someone who Brad desperately tries to convince to return to the Security Room with him and Frank. Dr. Barnaby declines, saying he will only leave once he is guaranteed safe passage out of the city first.

The Keyes Siblings
After returning to the Security Room, Frank is just in time to see the man who was shooting at them earlier, dragging Dr. Barnaby from his hiding place. Brad takes action, Frank quickly following behind. They make their way back to the Entrance Plaza to find Carlito now carrying an M82 sniper rifle, firing at Brad and Frank from afar. While Frank and Brad take cover, Frank notices Dr. Barnaby is tied up and hanging in the middle of the Entrance Plaza with zombies under him, reaching for him. After some fierce combat, Frank and Brad corner the man when he is out of rifle ammo. He ditches the rifle, and he pulls out a handgun. He and Brad have a small shoot out, leaving them both wounded. Frank and Brad return to the security room with the unconscious Dr. Barnaby.

Brad is seriously wounded and needs medicine from a pharmacy in the North Plaza. Before Frank can try and retrieve it, however, he's attacked by the store owner, who has a mysterious woman (Isabela) unconscious in his cart. Frank manages to defeat the manager, and tries to help the woman. However, she breaks away from him, telling him it is "your fault, not ours" for the zombie outbreak and mentioning something about a place called "Santa Cabeza". She runs away, and Frank steals the key from the manager to get access to the pharamacy where the medicine is.

Santa Cabeza
Frank gets it, and returns to the Security Room, giving Brad the medicine. Later, Isabela reappears on the monitors in North Plaza once again, and Frank goes to question her. Not willing to trust Frank, she attacks him on her motorcycle and Frank is forced to defend himself. He manages to disable her and pin her to the ground. She tells Frank that if he wants an interview about the zombie outbreak, then Carlito is the one to speak to. She says she can "persuade" him as she is, after all, his little sister. However, when Frank shows up at their designated meeting place, Isabela is hurt and about to be killed by a zombie. Frank rescues her and he learns that Carlito, in frustration and anger, shot her. Frank carries her on his back to the Security Room where Brad and Jessie wait.

After Isabela awakes, the group discovers that she and Carlito are survivors of a similar outbreak in a Central American town called Santa Cabeza, where the US government covered up the incident. Carlito caused the outbreak in Willamette in order to expose the truth to the world and take revenge. They discover that he has set time bombs all over the Maintenance Tunnels of the mall, preparing to send the larvae that caused the zombie outbreak into the atmosphere, leaving millions at risk. Frank and Brad go about trying to collect the bombs. Carlito and Brad have a standoff inside of a shed in the maintenance tunnel, where Carlito becomes fatally wounded and Brad is pushed though a door into a pack of zombies. Frank successfully gets rid of the bombs and goes back into the maintenance tunnels to find that Brad has been seriously injured by zombies, Brad tells him to promise not to tell Jessie and gives him his gun. There Frank dispatches zombified Brad. He returns to the safety room to find that Carlito is being dragged by The Butcher in the moniters. Frank goes to the Butcher's room and engages in battle with him where he kills the butcher. Frank attempts to get Carlito to talk, where Carlito doesn't tell the password to his computer but gives Frank a necklace for him to give to Isabelle then he dies.

Special Forces
Frank leaves the Maintenance Tunnels and returns to Carlito's hideout. Frank gives Isabelle the necklace where she remembers a phrase that means mother nature and finds out its the computer's password. Then the two of them attempt to figure out and foil the rest of Carlito's plans. In the meantime, Jessie finally gets a line to DHS headquarters, only to find out the government has chosen to cover up this incident too. The Special Forces are on their way to "clean up" the mess. Namely, they will kill everything they find: zombie or human. When the Special Forces attempt to convince Jessie that she could live if she kept quiet, she becomes a zombie and kills two of them. Frank arrives a short time later and puts her out of her misery.

The Special Forces sweep through the mall, exterminating all the zombies in their path. Meanwhile, Frank makes his way back to the helipad to meet his pickup. Frank believed for a moment the pilot was not coming back to him (the pilot used binoculars from another rooftop to make sure Frank was really going to be there). Frank about to give up all hope, the pilot arrives and very enthusiastic that Frank survived believing that he got his story also believing he'd get his share of the profit. However, as the helicopter arrives, the pilot is attacked by a stowaway zombie, causing the copter to crash. Despondent, Frank collapses on the roof as zombies spill outside. Just as he's about to submit to the inevitable, Isabela arrives and rescues him.

Overtime
Frank discovers he has been infected somehow, and Isabela tells him that there is a way to retard the larva's incubation period and slow zombification, albeit temporarily. Frank goes on a hunt to find the items needed to make the serum and, along the way, discovers the rest of Carlito's plans. There are a series of children, infected with larvae and injected with serum, spread all over the USA; "zombie time bombs" as Frank calls them. He and Isabela discover a way out through a long cave created by the helicopter crash. However, the cave is filled with zombies and their only protection is a pheromone Isabella made that repels zombies. After escaping the cave and stealing a military jeep, Isabela and Frank meet Brock, the Special Forces commander. They have a showdown which Frank drives the jeep and Isabella uses the gunner against Brock's tank. The tank takes a significant amount of damage but Brock still manages to knock over their jeep. Brock gets out of his tank and gets distracted when a massive amount of zombies approach from the horizon. Frank takes advantage of this moment and attacks Broc. The two engage in a brawl on top of the tank. Frank defeats Brock and escapes.

Whether Isabella escaped with Frank is unknown. Nor is it known what becomes of Frank afterwards.

Appearance
Frank usually, as seen in the picture, wears a black jacket with a white button-up shirt, khaki pants, and brown loafers. However, you can change Frank's appearance by visiting various shops for different clothing. With one outfit that the player can unlock, Frank is dressed in the same suit as Megaman X. It is a little added bonus as the fact the director of the game, Keiji Inafune, is the same person who created Megaman.