Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2124 in Video Games
• Brand: Capcom
• Model: 35010
• Published on: 2009-02
• Released on: 2009-02-24
• ESRB Rating: Mature
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .58" h x 6.20" w x 7.55" l, .36 pounds

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.

Amazon.com Product Description
Dead Rising: Chop 'Til 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 center 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. It's a brutal fight, but with no end in sight to this zombie onslaught, Frank bides his time by messing around with a variety of comedic costumes and making use of improvised and sometimes highly ineffective weapons such as a toy sword or a football. 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.

Surviving the Mall Crowds View larger. Huge hoards of hungry zombies View larger. Zombies are not the only issue View larger. The Story When you go to the mall, you know what to expect: shoppers, chain stores and ambient music. But when Frank West ducks into the Willamette Park View Mall, what he finds is something very different: a horde of rampaging zombies. Over the course of 72 hours, Frank must determine what has turned the residents of Willamette into the flesh-starved undead, all while fighting off the zombies' advances. Will he be able to escape this former retail oasis with his life intact? Key Game Features: Seek refuge in a shopping mall overrun with hordes of zombies Navigate the mall with the help of NPCs and gather objects to aid in your survival, whether for food or defense Search the mall for survivors and rescue them from the zombies Use virtually anything as a weapon, from circular saws to laser swords to lawnmowers, and control them with your Wii Remote Document the zombie infestation with your camera, taking photos to earn points and new items Get to the bottom of the mystery before the zombies can overcome your defenses It's a Zombie Infestation! Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop takes you on a deliciously gory chopping spree in a shopping mall run amok. Scour the mall for other survivors of the zombie infestation, and use the resources at your disposal to fortify yourself against attack, whether that means gathering food or amassing unusual weapons. Use your Wii Remote to help you swing a bat, brandish a chainsaw, hurl a bowling ball and use other objects found around the mall as weapons to fight off the encroaching zombies. Keep a level head — and keep your head, period — as you fight for your life and try to solve the mystery behind the town's peculiar transformation before it's too late.

Customer Reviews

You Might not Be Willing to Chop That Long
Pros:

+Improved control scheme
+Lots of ways to take down your adversaries; lots of freedom

Cons:

-Not a lot of detail, even for a Wii game
-Fairly bad voice acting and presentation of the story
-Poor AI from your allies

A couple of years ago, Capcom released Dead Rising on the XBOX360. It was a surprisingly good game that really showcased what the 360 was capable of at the time. Putting hordes of zombies on screen and giving you a million ways to play. The game has now been down scaled for the Wii to give people a new way to experience Dead Rising.

You play as Frank West, who has come to Colorado to get the story of a lifetime. If he survives, that is. You begin by being dropped off at a mall where most of the inhabitants have taken up residents. The ones who aren't yet the walking undead. After a series of events, the mall itself becomes overrun with zombies with few survivors to be seen. You have 72 hours to survive and get your story. But you're not just up against zombies. Throughout the game you'll run into survivors who have gone crazy.

The influence for Dead Rising obviously comes in part from Dawn of the Dead. Just the same, however, you're not getting much of a story throughout the game anyway. Most of the cutscenes push things along, and there are many things you must achieve in the story, but you're probably not playing the game for a compelling story. You're probably playing it because you want to massacre zombies. And there are a lot of ways to massacre the zombies you're up against.

In Dead Rising, just about everything is a weapon. From simple everyday CDs to a lawnmower, you can use just about anything you can find as a weapon to use against the walking undead. The game gives some balance by making sure you can't exploit a weapon. Eventually it breaks in some way and you can no longer use it. But you'll rarely, if ever, run into a moment where you've got nothing at your disposal. You also have guns for taking out the undead, but they're no where near as fun as mowing them over with a lawnmower or beating them down with a trashcan. Noticeable for the Wii is that the shooting controls are much much easier, thanks to the Wii Remote. It works exactly as it once did in Resident Evil 4. On the other hand, some of the other controls can feel a little limited. At the very least, however, it's a port in which the Wii controls don't feel tacked on.

There's more to just simply killing zombies. You do have a story to plow through. You'll run into other survivors from time to time who you'll have to plow through certain segments with. Unfortunately the AI of these survivors is pretty bad. It's a lot more work to keep them alive than actually killing zombies yourself. Unlike the 360 version, however, you don't have to worry so much about the consequences of failure. You might remember that the 360 version only gave you one save file per save device. The Wii actually gives you multiple saves to work with, and you might want to take advantage of it at certain points in the game.

You'll also run into crazy people, who serve as the games boss fights. These are, for the most part, thrilling battles. They can also be a bit tough, but gamers who played the 360 version will note that the difficulty has been lowered significantly in the Wii version. It isn't nearly as easy to die as it once was. If you're having trouble at any point, however, the game does happen to have a level up system where your health and power do actually increase.

On the 360, Dead Rising showed people what kind of potential the 360 was capable of. This isn't exactly true of the Wii, however. It obviously doesn't look as good as the 360 version, and it would be unfair to compare. But compared to other Wii games, Dead Rising could use a definite face lift. A lot of the environments look bland and boring. The game lacks detail overall, with blurry textures and details popping up every now and then. You also don't get any sense of how much danger you're in because the Wii isn't capable of putting several zombies on screen at a time. In short, Dead Rising on the Wii doesn't bring out the potential in the Wii. You can find several PS2 and Gamecube games that look noticeably better. Likewise, much of the voice acting and writing isn't all that great either. Sometimes it gets things just right. But many times some voices can feel a little overdone.

If you already have the 360 version, you might want to keep that one instead. It isn't exactly worth buying the Wii version just for new controls alone. Along those lines the game also took out certain gameplay elements, for example, taking photos was quite an important aspect of gameplay before, but for whatever reason, Capcom took this out of the Wii version. In short, the experience, despite some good shooting controls, just isn't as good. What it does better, such as the shooting and the multiple save spots, is worth noting, but it isn't something that'll make you want the game if you've already got it.

Good, but not great.
I got this game because I had to get rid of my 360 and the Wii was the only next gen game console I could afford at the time. I'm going to try not to compare the 2, but it will be a little difficult.
Anyways here goes with the things I like and the things I didn't.

Likes +

1. You always have a gun whether it be a Shotgun or Pistol. Ammo is easy to come by. When ever you kill a zombie you can find ammo that they left behind.

2. The game actually doesn't look a lot different from the 360 version which is very surprising to me.

3. Aiming with the Wii remote was a nice addition. Makes things so much easier. Swinging the remote to use melee weapons is also fun and each melee weapon has a different special you can use on the zombies when they are stunned.

4. I like the screen for the inventory. The game pauses when ever you want to heal yourself. Also allows you to carry more items than the 360 version.

Dislikes -

1. I understand that this game is for the Wii so they had to cut some things out to make it work. For ex: there are blockades in some parts of the mall that you can't get through in the Wii version of the game, but you could on the 360 version.

2. The game seems to be more focused on the missions and kind of makes me feel more rushed as I play.

3. Frank can't jump? What is up with that? He can't walk in water either. Very strange.

4. Only allows you to carry one secondary weapon at a time. So you get a gun and a baseball bat. You can't carry a baseball bat, sledgehammer, and lead pipe. It's one or the other.

The game could have definitely been better, but for a Wii game it's not bad. It's a nice free roam zombie killing game. I only rented, but I will probably buy it later when the price drops.

Flawed, but Some Good B-Movie Fun
From reviews I've read, it sounds like the XBOX 360 version of this game is more fun: better graphics & more zombies and NO FREAKING PARROTS. Argh. The parrots get pretty annoying. But I digress.

DEADRISING is one of those games that's pretty fun to play, but the gameplay gets a little bit repetitive. The missions and the scenery don't change very much throughout the game, and fairly quickly you've explored all there is to explore.

The game vainly tries to compensate for its lack of an interesting story by having cutscenes that drag on for too long. Not only that, but these scenes include laughably overwrought acting and silly, on the nose dialogue. I know it's just a video game, but come on!

The fact is, (and without giving too much away) at the point where you think the game is (finally) about to explore some new territory and provide more diverse challenges, it's all of a sudden over. And the ending is not at a particularly dramatic or satisfying point either. It's almost as if the game developers ran out of time or money and decided to just quit. I will support this by saying (again, without giving too much away) that the whole setup -- the diabolical scheme that we're supposed to thwart never gets confronted or thwarted. (like if you were watching a movie, and the villain said, "Muah ha! I've planted a nuclear bomb in the Capitol Building, and you'll never get there in time!" So the hero rushes to the Capitol Building, but halfway there the movie ends abruptly). Like our hypothetical movie, the scenario of certain impending doom gets dismissed rather lamely with a few title cards at the end. I suppose it could be a setup for Dead Rising 2, but mostly it feels abrupt and forced.

All that being said, it's still a pretty cool game, and there's lots of fun to be had. The controls are intuitive, and the diverse weaponry (chainsaws, toy light sabers, lawn movers) fun to use to slay thousands of zombies.

*NOTE: If you haven't played RESIDENT EVIL 4, get that first/instead. Resident Evil 4 is an awesome game. It uses the same engine, has a more compelling story that feels less repetitive, betters graphics and a far richer world.