Dead rising is coming to Wii this winter cleverly entitled: Dead Rising: Chop till you drop. For those of you who don’t already know, Dead Rising was a fan-fucking-tastic game on the Xbox 360 where you play as a bad-ass journalist named Frank West as you try to survive in a mall for 3 days so you can be helicoptered to safety. The catch is, that mall is filled with the zombified residence of an the entire small town of Willamette, Colorado. Dead Rising was one of my favourite 360 games and I hope that it can be faithfully recreated on the Wii. According to the article in Nintendo Power, Dead Rising: Chop till you drop is an exact port of the 360 version only with a few more weapons and some (hopefully appropriate) motion controls. They’ve decided to axe the photography element of the game apparently but I don’t believe that it’s much of a loss and will be completely looked over if the motion controls are done well and satisfyingly.

The only issue I can see with the port is that when Dead Rising was announced, Capcom decided it would show off how many zombies they could fit on screen with their fancy next-gen teknologie. They bragged upwards of 1000 zombies at a time, and to be honest some places in the game there probably could have been close to 1000 zombies and the game never hitched up; it was a hell of an achievement. The obvious hardware deficiency in the Wii could hamper the awesome that was having 1000 zombies bounce off the hood of your car in the underground maintenance tunnels, but the developers goal is apparently to have somewhere around 100 zombies on the Wii. Which, if the game is ported properly, should not be a noticeable detriment.