The end gives me some hope... fast zombies could almost make this game as fun as the 360 original.

Did Dead Rising always have so many sound effects straight out of RE4? I didn't remember that...

"but was in some ways it was lacking as a videogame"

Um...lol wut?

"occasionally making the game's zombies a real threat"

You mean, going against the game's pacing and feel?

Are we watching the same video? This looks like it's shoehorning in Resident Evil 4 where it doesn't belong and ruining the intentional design choices of the entire game.

Looks bad, I was so fucking excited but I would rather break 300 bucks and buy the console and the original. I have beaten it 3 times on a friends borrowed Xbox 360 and it was one of the best games ever. ZOMBIE MADNESS. I FOUGHT IN WARS YA' KNOW!!!!

Eh, I loved RE4, but I still don't think it'll be nearly as fun with that few zombies on the screen.

@Killias2: Nah... a lot of the scenes were, but this is a quicker cut with more scenes added. Including the 28 Days Later zombies at the end.

@ Jonathan

So you would accept putting RE4's design into just any game and expect it to magically make it better? The removal of time constraints will only serve to the lessen tension and fear of the original game, detracting from a more accurate "what would you do in a zombie invasion" scenario. Planning will go out the window, since you'll be able to do whatever you want; "Just take your time shnookums," is what this new game says to me.

And the loss of a mall full of zombies is a significant damage, since once again, part of the experience was feeling hopelessly outnumbered, yet still crashing through the hoards to rescue one survivor, then defending that survivor as you race back to safety. Adding in RE4-style controls and camera looks like just a concession to make fighting small groups of zombies seem more interesting than it actually is.

I just feel like they're fixing problems that people complained about who didn't realize that the original was about realistically planning how to save the most people, then learning from your mistakes on multiple playthroughs to advance farther. I somehow doubt they'll be fixing the legitimate issues with the game, like allowing combat while Otis speaks or beefing up survivor AI so they aren't half-retarded.

tl;dr: This is RE4, but in a mall and with slow boring zombies. If you want another RE4 experience, you should wait for RE5 this spring instead of supporting a developer ruining a carefully crafted different type of game.

Holy Crap! That really does say Boob!

This looks absolutely horrible.

@ Necros- I'm looking forward to RE5 as well, but I am bummed that Sony and/or M$ still haven't come out with their Wii pointer rip-off controllers yet. Being able to point at the screen and shoot makes a huge difference for me in playing these sorts of games.

As for your analysis of the original Dead Rising, it's very well put. Let me tell you (in brief) why the parts of the game that worked for you didn't work for me.

For starters, if I were in a real zombie invasion, you know what I'd be scared of? That's right; zombies. I wouldn't be scared to miss an meeting with some sexy blonde office-worker to talk about an old man. I wouldn't be scared that I wasn't going to be able to save some total strangers in time to meet some arbitrary videogame goal. I wouldn't be trying to get a scoop. I wouldn't be looking at my watch.

I'd just want the zombies to not kill me. That's the feeling that Dead Rising lacks. After the first hour, I was never scared of a zombie, or even a horde of zombies, ever again.

If Capcom makes this port right, then one or two hits from a zombie and you'll be dead. These zombies need to be deadly. If they aren't, if the zombies are few, and easy to kill and do no damage to Frank, then you'll be right; this port could suck.

Then again, we'll have the new zombie dogs, birds, and fat security guards to contend with as well, which will break up my other major issue with Dead Rising: monotony. Killing the same zombies over and over again got to be like eating an endless pile of Chicken McNuggets. It started off so fun, then just got to be like work, until you just want to stop.

You know your zombie game's design is flawed when it's actually a relief when [spoilers] cult members and elite forces dudes show up to try and kill you [/spoilers]. That should be a moment of dread, not a moment of "Thank god you guys showed up! These zombies were boring the crap out of me!"

And don't even get me started on the boss fights, and how the game's aiming system made them a total chore.

Oops. That was suppose to be brief. Sorry.

Lets just say that you have further cemented my understanding of why Dead Rising fans are understandably disinterest, or even annoyed, with this port's existence, but that I'm still psyched for it.

I hated the time concept in the first one, so maybe I'd prefer this one...

It looks like they changed a lot to make up for the engine limitations. This could be good or bad, only a hands on review will tell.

Those tunnels look so empty compared to the 360, the zombies are all equally spaced out in a strange way.

The whole point of the zombies were to be brainless, primitive and weak creatures whose only strength is in mass numbers. Dead Rising's survival and horror elements didn't come from the zombies, they came from the other functional human beings. However, if you can really say hordes of zombies didn't scare or at least concern you, you obviously haven't needed to go into the maintenance tunnels while low on supplies.

Dead Rising's zombies were placed there because they're typically something that's supposed to be scary, and the message of the game was that humans were the real bad guys. They were the ones that ended thousands of lives, killed other living human beings out of their own distrust, and planned to nuke the city just to cover up the mess.

The fact that you (and Capcom, unfortunately) want to turn Dead Rising into Resident Evil 4 2: Dead Rising Wii Edition is sort of saddening. They really aren't even the same game any more.

I am glad that it looks like they fixed, or at least changed, that fucking Otis fight, though. By far the most ridiculously overpowered boss in the game.

@ Dirty Hobo- You just summed up a lot of what makes Dead Rising for the 360 is the best interactive zombie movie ever. Like I said in the original post, this Wii port wont be able to touch the original in those ways.

Also, the 360 version makes you constantly choose between helping people and taking pictures of them getting mutilated by zombies. That's an ingenious way of delivering the "zombie movie message" ("who are the real walking dead, us or them?").

So yeah, like I said, Dead Rising 360 will always be the better interactrive zombie movie, but I still think this Wii port may be the the better videogame. In a perfect world, we'd get them both in the same package, but for now we get them split in two.

@ Kyousuke- "M$" is just an abbreviation, nothing to get huffy about.

Plus, they have money. What's wrong with that? I wish people had reason to call me "J$".

@ Necros- I look forward to you getting to play Dead Rising 2, hopefully in the near future.

Holmes there's no dollar sign in Microsoft, that would be a nickname.

@ Moo- Why you bustin' my balls, Moo?

DON'T TOUCH THE BALLS.

@ Everybody- The more I think about it, the more I think that Capcom is shooting themselves in the foot by having this game star Frank West and having it follow the exact same scenario as the original. If this were a side-story staring another random person trapped in Willamette Mall at the time of the zombie crisis, I think this game would get a lot less flack.

It's like Dead Rising.....with 1/10 the zombies

@Jonathan Holmes:
If they were to do that, they should go all the way and give the game a different title.

@ Dirty Hobo- Thanks for the education on M$ nickname/abreviation/whatever. It's still faster than typing "Microsoft", so I'm probably going to stick with it.

As for my "Dead Rising is the ultimate zombies movie" idea, you have to remember that "movie" does not equal "story". Most zombie movies have no real story, and instead are all about atmosphere and tone (and feeling like it's ok to slaughter countless people because they've been turned into zombies). That's what Dead Rising on the 360 in a nutshell, a interactive zombie experience.

What Dead Rising on the 360 is isn't about is videogame design. Classically, a videogame's worth is measured by how many different kinds of enemies the game has, how many types of strategies the player must employ in order to beat those enemies, that sort of stuff. By those standards, Dead Rising on the 360 was a flop. From beginning to end, you you could pretty much use the same strategies to kill most of the enemies in the game, because from start to finish, you spend most of your time killing the same old zombies.

Imagine if in Super Mario Bros 3, the only enemies you fought the goombas; Hundreds of goombas all standing between you and the end of the level, and when you start the next level, all you get is the chance to fight more gommbas.

That's how Dead Rising on the 360 feels. It's a game that gets by on atmosphere and tone that comes from filling the screen with hundreds of zombies, and not on videogame design elements like level design and enemy variety. If it weren't for the fact that it's zombies your fighting, most people wouldn't have even played the game.

Just imagine Dead Rising with robots instead of zombies. Would you still have played it?