New Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop trailer is hardcore

3:30 PM on 01.03.2009   |   Jonathan Holmes

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This trailer is weird on so many levels. For starters, it completely lacks actual gameplay footage, which some would say defeats the purpose of being a "game trailer."

Then there's the music: is mid-nineties-era hardcore cool in Japan right now, or is Capcom trying to be ironic by using "hardcore" music to advertise a game that hardcore Dead Rising fans are generally outraged about? There's also the fact that Keiji Inafune, Capcom's answer to Shigeru Miyamoto, just said in an interview that Dead Rising on the 360 was an attempt to make an American-tasting burger, but that the finished product still tasted Japanese. Isn't this video just more of that kind of failed ambition? It doesn't get much more "American-tasting" than hardcore, and this is some of the most "Japanese-tasting" hardcore I've ever heard.

I don't mean to sound overly critical, because I absolutely love this video. Since I first saw it, I've been saying "DEH-DO REI-JING" to myself pretty much non-stop.  Plus, I still haven't gotten over my crush on the group of polygons and texture maps collectively known as "Jessie," so seeing her again put a big smile on my face. For those that haven't played Dead Rising, she's the blonde seen here doing the hoedown with a shiny Ving Rhames look-a-like.

So, all embarrassing admissions of crushes on videogame characters aside, what did you think of this video? Has its lighthearted tone helped you to not resent the fact that Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop will only allow for about 100 zombies to be shown on screen at a time, or are you still angry that the once-360 exclusive will soon be enjoyed by Wii-owning zombie lovers everywhere?

[Via GoNintendo]