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

That could be...interesting.

maybe, but the real question everyone should be asking is can the wii even handle this game?

I mean sure we know its going to look like shite compared to the 360, but i remember a good portion of the game having a SIGNIFICANT amount of zombies on the screen at the same time, that was one of the main draws to the game and really was made possible by stronger machines. I wonder what the gameplay will be like with the wii's capabilities.

I heard the Wii version takes the camera out of the game,which is fucking retarded because you're playing a PHOTO JOURNALIST. Taking the camera portion out of this game is a big part missing from the original considering it's entire story is you getting your scoop for your big news story.

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Zombi

Could you maybe, I don't know, link to where you read such speculation?

I'll do it for him.

I heard it on one of the podcasts I listen to.

Edit: http://fyad.org/vlig

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Zombi

Kotaku reported that, from some early screens, it looks like the Wii may just not be capable of rendering that many zombies at one time: http://kotaku.com/5027111/dead-risin...the-zombies-go

Personally, I got to this point in the OP and my stomach turned:

So really, it's a completely different game. They basically ripped the fucking guts out of Dead Rising and reverse-engineered it for last-gen hardware.

Don't get me wrong, I loved RE4, but I loved Dead Rising, too. I don't think either game would work well in the style of the other.

I even bought RE4 for my Wii, even though I'd completed it over and over on my PS2. It's fun, and it was worth the 30 bucks, even though I already had it. Taking a step sideways graphically for interesting new controls was worth it. No Wii-60 owner is going to take three steps back graphically just so they can gently waggle their wrists in order to have Frank bash a zombie with a shovel.

Of course, there's still a fuckton of people with Wii's who've never owned a 360, and don't really care to. Some of them will inevitably buy this game. It's the same reason they made Decca Sports.

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Even the demo of the 360 version was mediocre at best. The controls and the camera annoyed me.

Those screen shots look horrible, the feeling of doom that you got from the sheer number of enemies is completely gone and the graphics look so bland compared to the 360 version. They are early shots though so this may improve later but right now I'm not expecting it to be that good.

Really, a feeling of doom? But they were so slow and fragile? All I thought was "I'm going to headshot these motherfuckers with soda cans!".

That doesn't kill all of them for one, it slows them down sure, and kills a couple. Sure they were better than the guns, but that's because the guns were pretty worthless.

Mean have you even played Dead Rising? The massive swarms of zombies are near impossible to get through without getting mauled, unless you use a umbrella or mini chainsaw to just go through them all.

And the comments about the photojournalism, mean that was the entire point of the game. You're trying to uncover a conspiracy and an evil plan through the eyes of an average Joe with a camera, and trying to capture the story of the decade at the same time. Taking that out of the game is pretty bad... mean sure taking pictures sounds boring, but taking pictures of a cult dressed in yellow rain jackets about to sacrifice someone is pretty cool. Plus it's the fastest way to level up, so there is incentive to take pictures of a variety of things.

Basically this is just a shitty version of a pretty decent game that is trying to cash in on the average Wii owner's ability to buy shovelware in great quantity.