I sat ere watching this a bit happy to see it on the WIi but sad that it has been downgraded so badly. If you have never played Dead Rising then you may not care that they have taken out more than half of the zombies that would appear on screen. IN the scenes they show in the mall those corridors would be full of zombies and it would be a battle to get from one side of the mall to the other. The controls are mediocre at best to me and look like a Resident Evil rip off. They did add some new characters it looks like, the mall cop with no hands was not in the original and I can’t remember that pink poodle either. If you have a Wii and never played Dead Rising then grab this one, but if you enjoyed the original stay away because this does not stack up.
As most of you are probably aware of there is a new version of Dead Rising come to your Wii very soon. Aside from what some are calling dumbed down graphics and a lot less zombies on screen not much else has been heard about this title until now. We got a detailed understanding on how the Wii specific controls will play out.
When using a gun the player simply has to aim and fire for dear life. The targeting reticule will turn red indicating you have found the enemy’s weak spot allowing for maximum damage. To reload your firearm simply shake the Wii Remote and you’re good to go.
Making use of the motion controls (aka erratic shaking) when a Zombie latches onto you merely give them ‘the don’t argue’ and free yourself by Shaking the Wii remote. Other weapons will use the Wii remote in unique ways, the baseball bat for example allows you to shake the Remote to increase a meter to ensure your next hit will be out of the park.
The targeting scope will revert back to the more tradition control scheme. Using the nunchuck analogue stick you can move your viewpoint and zoom in and out using the Z and C buttons respectively. The D-Pad will act as hot-keys, allowing you to interchange 4 weapons at any given time.
To be quite honest this port of the Xbox 360 classic really is not offering me enough to go out and buy this. Adding in the ability to shoot zombies and waggle the Wiimote to get them off of you is nice, but just isn’t enough. Then factor when you take into account the fact that you will have a fraction of the zombies on screen than the previous version and you lost me all together.
We have all heard by now that Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop is coming over to your Wii and I was one that thought so what. Dead Rising was a great game on the Xbox 360, but I played that over a year ago and have almost forgotten completely about it. Looks like the Wii version will not be a port but instead a brand new game that is being designed for the Wii. This could be good in that the incorporation of motion controls could make the game interesting again, but can also hurt the game as well, the Wii graphically and from a processing standpoint just cant do the same things as the 360. We will probably get the same story with a lot less enemies and some quirky control scheme, I would just grab the 360 version instead, you can probably grab a used copy for $25.
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
I am not 100% sure what game this is, but as far as I can tell it is very focused on taking pictures of ladies underwear. Somehow this fighting game transitioned from normal crappy fighting game into an upskirt festival? This strikes me as a Japan only title that never made it stateside, the photo noise reminds me of Dead Rising when you take pictures of the zombies. Funny yet a bit disturbing as well, it does not help the games credibility that the graphics and gameplay look horrid.
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This is kind of loosely video game related as the snow thrower is painted in the style of the robots form Dead Rising/Mega Man, but it is still cool none the less. This robot eats snow and poops ice blocks, enuff said. Wonder how you keep it from being stolen, maybe lojack for your snow thrower?
On July 20th, you can download both map packs 1 and 2 for the price of on the house reports ign.com for the Xbox360 version. There will also be an auto update to handle some connection issues sometime towards the end of the month. You’ll know when you boot the gane that its ready.
Also, Frank West, the character from Dead Rising will be a multiplayer character as well as Mega Man, a Capcom staple. The character Joe, who was also in the game will be available as well. This will be an automatic downloadable patch also on July 20th and Map Pack 1 will be a part of it.
We all know Dead Rising 2 is coming. Capcom has already stated that much. When it’s coming and for what systems are still a mystery, as is how the gameplay will evolve.
Our friends over at The Gaming Life got some inside info about the game, which may see a teaser trailer at this year’s E3″
“The environments for Dead Rising 2 look absolutely beautiful. They put a lot of effort and work into them. The zombies had not been added into the game yet, but the area looked even bigger then the original mall. The setting for it looks a lot like Las Vegas except somehow you are trapped only in a small section of the city with about 4 or 5 casinos, some restaurants, shopping areas and a lot of stores altogether. It looked very much like the strip in Las Vegas, but they didn’t show a whole lot to make an accurate portrayal. That an I know Resident Evil: Apocalypse is set there so I am unsure if they would go this route. All I can say for sure is that the setting was much bigger then the small town mall.”
How is it possible for a company to drop 12% of their overall net profit for the 2006-2007 fiscal year and still be happy about it? Capcom expected to lose a lot more than that according to Gamespot. The company had figured with the switching of consoles and how much they would cost the consumer, that they would have a higher drop off, but two titles saved their necks. According to their publisher:
“One of the significant accomplishments is that both Dead Rising and Lost Planet for Xbox 360 achieved sales of one million copies due to their great popularity in the US and Europe,”
Capcom has more games slated for release this fall such as Monster Hunter Freedom 2 for the Xbox360.
There are not that many must have Xbox360 titles, maybe 10-15 at best, but Dead Rising is certainly one of them. You can now pick this title up for $39.99 brand new at amazon.com. They will even ship it to you for free unless you live in like the Ozarks or somewhere weird.
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On July 20th, you can download both map packs 1 and 2 for the price of on the house reports 
How is it possible for a company to drop 12% of their overall net profit for the 2006-2007 fiscal year and still be happy about it? Capcom expected to lose a lot more than that according to 
There are not that many must have Xbox360 titles, maybe 10-15 at best, but Dead Rising is certainly one of them. You can now pick this title up for $39.99 brand new at 
