Dead Rising: Chop Til You Drop coming to Wii a good thing
A week ago, Capcom announced that their Xbox 360 zombie massacre game, Dead Rising, would be finding its way to Nintendo’s Wii platform in the form of a somewhat necessarily revisionist port. They’ve decided on the subtitle “Chop Til You Drop,” which I just can’t help but grin at. I’ve mentioned a few times that Dead Rising is one of those games I’d love to see find its way over from Xbox 360 to Wii, but I never really did any in-depth thought on what that would entail.
Chop Til You Drop was shown at E3, and some stills came out to some measure of… backlash. Now, wait just a second, folks. It’s nothing new to see people trolling over screenshots, I’ll let that go if I have to. Maybe it’s time to take a deep breath and be pleased when a critically-acclaimed game like Dead Rising arrives on our platform of choice. Those of us who’ve still not picked up an Xbox 360 (and won’t until the hardware is fixed, thank you very much) needed to wait for this game (and other stuff, like Bioshock) appeared on a different console in order to have it available. Yes, Capcom will have to make changes to get Dead Rising onto Wii. But let’s be honest, this isn’t Metal Gear Solid 4. It can still work.
The press release (again, it’s from a week ago) invokes the holy name of Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition to point out that games where you do harm to oncoming hordes of nearly-people can sell well on Wii. They even provide a bullet point that this game will run on the same engine as RE4Wii. Which is fine by me.
More recent revelations show that some of the elements of the original Dead Rising, such as the photography element, won’t be making it into the Wii version for one reason or another. It’s probably safe to assume they won’t bother with the achievements, either.
Source: Capcom
CAPCOM® ANNOUNCES DEAD RISINGTM: CHOP TIL YOU DROP
Wii Gamers Prepare For a Zombie Invasion
SAN MATEO, Calif. — July 21, 2008 — Capcom®, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, today announced that Dead Rising™: Chop Till You Drop is in development for the Wii™ home video game system. Based on the critically acclaimed Dead Rising™, which has sold in excess of one million units since its release in 2006, Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop is scheduled to hit store shelves this Winter.
Taking advantage of the same proven technology that brought Resident Evil® 4 so successfully to Wii, Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop delivers a more immersive, intuitive and interactive experience as players use the Wii Remote to shoot, slash and bludgeon their way through a zombie infested shopping mall, fighting for survival.
Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop follows the harrowing tale of Frank West, an overly zealous freelance journalist on a hunt for the scoop of a lifetime. In pursuit of a juicy lead, he makes his way to the small suburban town of Willamette only to find that it has become overrun by zombies. Frank escapes to the local shopping mall, thinking it will be a bastion of safety but it turns out to be anything but. It will be a true struggle to survive the endless stream of enemies, but players will have full reign of a realistic shopping centre and its varied stores offering an endless supply of real and makeshift weapons to fight off the flesh-hungry mob. If Frank is running low on health he can pay a visit to one of the many restaurants or cafes for a meal in order to restore his energy and continue the fight.
The game is split into a series of individual cases, all of which Frank must complete in order to gain vital information that will allow him to piece together the truth behind the horrendous epidemic. In addition to the cases, players will be faced with the dilemma of deciding the rescue priority of the residents of Wilamette who also sought sanctuary in the mall. Depending on the player’s skill, some may not be so fortunate as each rescue needs to be undertaken in a set time period, therefore players may need to delay completion of a case in order to save a fellow human.
Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop’s infectious humor delivers some welcome relief from the incessant tide of zombies with players able to dress Frank up in a variety of comedic costumes and take on the undead hordes with a selection of improvised and sometimes highly ineffective weapons such as a toy sword or a football.
Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop includes the following features:
• Utilizes the same engine as Resident Evil 4 Wii edition.
• New level of interaction – aim and fire guns, swing and throw weapons and shake off zombie attacks with added Wii Remote functionality
• Huge environment – expansive indoor and outdoor areas of the mall provide a variety of different locations to explore
• Improved save functionality allows for more seamless gameplay
• Hoards of enemies on screen at once resulting in non-stop, pulse-pounding action
• Anything in the mall is at Frank’s disposal
• Grab environmental objects like umbrellas and benches to use as improvised weapons
• Snatch items from different stores to use as weapons including golf clubs, lawnmowers, frying pans and more
• Consume food and drink to revive health
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I was all set until I heard the photography stuff was out. Any chance of a PS3 version with that feature intact?
Also, at least we won’t have to worry about the Wii version having ridiculously tiny HD-only text!
At least the aiming system won’t be as archaic and decidedly not next-gen as the 360 version.
Dead Rising is probably the only game that I truly both hate and love at the same time. There is so much wrong with it, yet so much of it is just flat-out awesome. If they make the right changes to the Wii version, it might be worth taking a look at.
this is gonna be sick