OK, I finally want this game. It’s been a long time coming, but thanks to this new trailer, I’m finally sure that Dead Rising on the Wii will be fun. I can still see why some die-hard Dead Rising fans will consider this port to be useless, but for people like me that prefer Resident Evil 4 to just about any other 3D shooter ever made, Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop is starting to look mighty fine.
Dead Rising on the 360 was a great interactive zombie movie, but was in some ways it was lacking as a videogame. Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop on the Wii definitely wont be as good in a zombie movie sort of way, but as a game it may be the better choice. It’s the little adjustments to the original; like how you no longer need to scroll through an obnoxiously slow real-time sub-screen in order to switch from guns to melee weapons and how the new camera never works against you; that have me feeling so hopeful.
The real kicker is the zombies at the end of the video. If Capcom plans to make up for the decrease in zombie-count by occasionally making the game’s zombies a real threat (instead of just so much meat standing between the player and an important appointment with a Ving Rhames look-a-like), then there is no question that Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop will be exactly what I was hoping for; a dirtier, faster, punk rock cover of the awesome original.
