Capcom announces Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop for Wii
Monday, July 21st, 2008 at 3:06pm by Blake
The subtitled frenzy of Wii ports continues…
SAN MATEO, Calif. — July 21, 2008 — Capcom®, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, today announced that Dead Rising™: Chop Till You Drop is in development for the Wii™ home video game system. Based on the critically acclaimed Dead Rising™, which has sold in excess of one million units since its release in 2006, Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop is scheduled to hit store shelves this Winter.
Taking advantage of the same proven technology that brought Resident Evil® 4 so successfully to Wii, Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop delivers a more immersive, intuitive and interactive experience as players use the Wii Remote to shoot, slash and bludgeon their way through a zombie infested shopping mall, fighting for survival.
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.
Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop includes the following 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
July 21st, 2008 at 3:35 pm
What the hell were they thinking throwing such an incredibly stupid sounding subtitle in there? It actually makes the game sound alot less appealing.
Chop til you drop? UGH.
July 21st, 2008 at 3:37 pm
I hope they UPDATE their “Cube” engine.
July 21st, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Are you kidding? Best Subtitle Ever!!!!!
July 21st, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Surely it’s not really called Chop Til You Drop? That’s gotta be an Infendo joke. Please?
July 21st, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Oh, I get it. It’s in a mall.
July 21st, 2008 at 3:58 pm
slow people. yes, it is a pun on shop til you drop, and i like puns, cheesy, amusing, i like this pun. it does make the game seem more silly then serious, but was it ever a serious title?
July 21st, 2008 at 4:12 pm
funny title.
IF true.
I wonder how else it will be ” nintendo-IZED” you know, how it will become less of a hardcore game and more casual…
July 21st, 2008 at 4:43 pm
@wii wii: It’s now about collecting Poke-zombies and making them battle other Poke-zombies for mall supremacy. That’s how.
July 21st, 2008 at 5:08 pm
The phrase “Based on Dead Rising” bothers me. So does the “Runs on the re4 engine.”
I don’t want new levels for RE4, i want dead rising.
July 21st, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Yeah I have to agree “Chop til you drop” is pretty lame regardless of the pun intended. The game however will be fine, so I’ll get over it.
July 21st, 2008 at 6:04 pm
A lot less pretty than the 360 version. If they incorporate the 1:1, this could be very fun indeed.
July 21st, 2008 at 6:26 pm
needs more zombies. I want to be able to walk on top of their heads.
and then find the hole driller
and then drill through zombie torsos
and then shove the spinning torso at other zombies for massive damage
July 21st, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Rental!!!
July 21st, 2008 at 9:07 pm
“@wii wii: It’s now about collecting Poke-zombies and making them battle other Poke-zombies for mall supremacy. That’s how.”
You know what ? THAT is actually a game I might buy.
You may be on to something, Jack.
How about a Nintendo Universe Zombie game, like the Marvel superheros Zombie comics? Make Luigi the only non Zombie and have him battle it out with everyone, attempting to turn them back into thier loveable old selves…. THAT would be at the least different…
July 21st, 2008 at 9:13 pm
no thanks, i’ll pass.
July 21st, 2008 at 10:07 pm
haha- it sounds like an evil dead video game! man- if they substitute bruce campbell for the main character (that’s right, not Ash, but Brucie himself), I think they have a trillion seller.t
July 21st, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Holy crap… most exciting E3 moment this year! Aaaand its a port… but a great port! Says something about e3, though, dudn’t it???
July 21st, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Sounds hella good to me.
July 21st, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Normally I will bash this port, but this one is actually a CURRENT GEN port, so I’ll let it slide.
July 21st, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Chop Til You Drop is silly for a subtitle; though it is on the back of the case of the 360 version.
Anyway, I’m laughing at some of the descriptions of the “features” or the game. Like this one:
“New level of interaction – aim and fire guns, swing and throw weapons and shake off zombie attacks with added Wii Remote functionality” - in other words…shake your Wiimote to get a zombie off of you.
I might get this but I’m not sure. For some reason the “Based on Dead Rising” seems odd; I’m wondering if it’s going to be more like Umbrella Chronicles in it’s game set up, in that each case will be like each scenario in UC.
July 22nd, 2008 at 8:53 am
@ResidentialEvil My favourite ‘Feature’ is “Consume food and drink to revive health.”
So much better then those other games who features include “Pick up floating first aid packages to heal wounds”