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Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles with Wii Zapper

by Alexander Sliwinski on Jul 11th 2007 8:00PM

The Wii Zapper went from announcement to practice with the quickness. We got some time to spend with the contraption while testing out Capcom's Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles. Sadly, they're still only showing off the single player version. The level they showed off was in a dilapidated downtown filled with zombies. We can't say our impressions have changed very much since our last hands-on.

The game is fun, but the targeting doesn't seem very responsive and shaking the whole Zapper to reload takes some serious getting used to. Flicking the Wiimote to reload outside the Zapper is far less annoying than shaking the whole thing in your hands. Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles really feels like a game to play with a friend on a lazy afternoon -- but the Zapper plastic shell definitely doesn't add $20 worth to the experience

Tags: e3, e307, resident evil umbrella chronicles, Wii

Reader Comments (26)

one can only hope they change the control scheme or make it configurable to be zapper friendly.

- Yeah, I never had too much hopes for the Zapper. Unless it uses the Wiimote's and Nunchuk's accelorometers in a way that's only possible in that configuration, it's not worth it. Like, if it somehow calibrates the aiming some more.
- I think it'd only be worth $20 if the Nunchuk parts were built in, like in the previous version.

What about fps/point and click games where you move the nunchuck and wiimote independently .. wtf are you suppose to do?

@Ian

uh, not use the zapper attachment?

I actually think the two handed approach is a good way of doing certain shooters - the thing could suck given the way the Wii actually points though - you'll never see a shooter w/o a cursor because of it.

I bet that game is hard standing that close to the screen with giant f'n crosshairs. Plus, why would you need 2 hands? Isn't it on rails?

Its on rails only in that you have to stay on that one path, but you can move around that path at will, to get power ups n' such

Couldn't you just put the gun down and back up, is this a sufficient shake enough to reload? I always wanted to do that

I would rather use Brando's zapper, looks a lot nicer:

http://www.wiiwii.tv/2007/05/23/brando-unveils-wii-lightgun-peripheral/

Does the trigger on that Brando zapper have a mechanism that presses the B-trigger on the remote? If not it is completely void.

i don't like the arangement of the zapper, if the nunchuck was in the front it would probably have a better feel to it.

Its 20 dollars because Nintendo said it comes with a game. man, you guys were at the freaking confrence, pay attention.

Half of us felll asleep

Actually, no. You're wrong. It's $20 standalone, and Nintendo said it would be packaged in with some games that are designed to use it.

Get your facts straight before telling us to get ours.

go back to your bridge troll.

I'd like to know how I'm a troll....

@Thatoneguy64

Actually I THINK you are wrong. To me it sounded like the price of the Zapper and Software togther would be $20. But I think we all watched the same presentation so its probably a difference in interpretation rather than facts.

You may be right with yours but I personally disagree.

But Nintendo said the Zapper would revolutionize the shooter genre...

Seriously, all flamebait aside, I don't see the point in this zapper. It doesn't add anything that you couldn't do just holding the Wiimote, does it? I guess it is a bit easier to aim. The trigger needs to be on the back hand, though.

Anyone else notice that the sensor bar is waaaaaaay off to the right on the TV? Maybe that could account for how it played?

That and I don't see myself using the zapper, it negates what I see as the Wii controller's largest strength, the fact that your hands can be as close or as far apart as you want them while you play. That's the reason I picked up RE4 for the Wii, nothing beats kickin' back on the couch with my arms on the actual armrests killing Ganados!

The sensor bar is the thing on the bottom of the TV, right in the middle, that appears to be emitting pink lights because digital cameras pick up infrared. I'm not sure what that black thing on top of the TV way off to the right is, but it's not the sensor bar.

Ahh, I see now, well I guess then there actually control issues with it then, oh well, thanks for the heads up Chris.

The zapper isn't mandatory, is it? I'll just get this game and not use the zapper. Still looks really fun.

I wonder if the game that comes with is something like Wii Play? ;o

I DON'T CARE IT'S A FREAKING TOMMY GUN I NEEDS IT

And I would like to try for a NEW on-rails game made for it. Maybe like a new Ghost Squad or House of the Dead or Virtua Cop, etc...

Now I really want a Super Scope for my Nintendo armory. :(

Sega is bring Ghost Squad to Wii, remember? With 4P and online, too.

you know how the namco time crises games are for the ps2? When you start up the game, it would ask you to shoot the center of the screen to calibrate the guncon. I wonder if capcom could do the same for the wiimote? hmm...

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