A few Dead Rising

Ugh, for the love of pete, I'm getting sick of these comparisons... yes there are fewer zombies on screen in the wii version. Guess what? THE VAST MAJORITY of those zombies are MEANINGLESS sorry, but pretty graphics and lots of animation does not make dead rising...

doing obscene things to a large number of zombies makes dead rising. There are still a lot of zombies, you'll get lots of ways to do horrid things to said zombies. I'm still picking this up, and I'm done reading any of these "side by side" photos comparing promo art and animation from the 360 version to in-game footage of the wii one.

Call me apologetic but somehow I find the atmosphere of a few dozen zombies much more believable than the one with hundreds. I still think this game will be much fun, maybe not as ridiculously much fun as the 360 version but fun nonetheless.

Ugh.

Capcom should just start over and use a new engine that can actually handle a reasonable amount of zombies on the screen. This game CAN'T, in it's current form, have a budget of more than 3 million dollars.

This is a travesty, as of right now. ALL the impressions of it have been negative. When you've even managed to disappoint RMC over at GoNintendo, you KNOW you've got a stinker on your hands!

I'm really surprised at how few zombies appear in each of the screens. Sure, Wii may not be able to produce as many zombies on screen as the Xbox360, but surely it must be able to produce more than a dozen on screen at once.

Just look at the Pikmin series. The GameCube had no trouble drawing hundreds of characters on screen at once. Sure the zombies are a little more detailed and complex than a Pikmin (although from the look of the screens, not by much), but it still must be possible to draw more than a dozen on screen at once.

I can't help but feel Capcom isn't giving it a full effort on this one.

Wow, I know the Wii can't do as many zombies as the 360 can, but this is kinda sad.

Of course, I really doubt it will make the actual story mode any less awesome, but I don't think this version will have as much replay value as the original (running over thousands of zombies with a car just never got old to me)

I'm so glad that I noticed the word 'embiggen'.

if these pics were real life, in the 360 screen i would say ahhh 100 zombies im dead!

The wii screen would make say ahhh a bakers dozen of zombies i better run away!

Every time I see these comparisons I always feel the need to say the same three words.

State. Of. Emergency.

The wii version of dead rising is shaping up to be a game I'm just going to pass over without so much as a rent.

WeakSauce

(Sigh)

Not a big deal for me. Being able to play it now is better than never playing it otherwise. How the games plays is the important thing, not how many stumbling zombies I can see at once.

I'll probably just wait until I get my 360 to play this instead of getting it on the Wii. But I can see the fun of using the Wii-mote to shoot the zombies as opposed to using the 360 controller. So the 360 has more zombies, but the Wii version will feel more like you're actually shooting zombies.

*sigh*

Ah well... at least I've the opportunity to play both...

And as for 'smarter zombies'... DEAR GOD NO.

Half the reason I liked Dead Rising in the first place is that it ascribes to the classic Romero zombie, slow, brainless creatures only looking to eat the living. I've honestly played enough games that have super mutant, super soldier, super brilliant, respawning, and carnival clown based zombies.

The whole thing that appealed to me was the classic, 'sure, one zombie isn't trouble. How do you deal with a few thousand?'

The second half has always been the psycho boss characters. Humans generally make for better emotionally driven bosses than the zombies. Same as the old movies, the problem was really with your fellow man, not the zombies...

But I digress... what the heck kind of cheesy engine did Capcom build in the first place that the only reason it could support so many zombies was because the 360's capacities can take such a pounding? That just screams of inefficiency... and also explains why my friend's 360 overheats so badly when it's playing Dead Rising...

I counted roughly 19 zombies in the picture of the Wii version.

For me, that's plenty. I understand that some people have played the 360 version, and are unhappy about the lack of zombies, but this is not the same game. This is a different game, with a different engine. As someone else pointed out, Capcom has said that they've enhanced the AI for the Zombies, as well. Hundreds of retarded, stumbling zombies aren't very scary and arbitrarily killing them in droves isn't very scary either...we've already played Dynasty Warriors. Hopefully the lack of numbers will be made up for by the increased intelligence and aggressiveness.

That being said, shooting 19 zombies in the head, by ACTUALLY AIMING at their heads (not by clicking a thumbstick around) will be sufficient enough and Capcom knows it. While the 360 version may have better graphics and more zombies at any given time, the realism involved with the Wiimote largely overwhelms both, imo.

@ sn1per

if the zombies are smarter and they give you a run for your money then it'll be MUCH more fun then the 360 version. when the PARASITES (or PLAGAS if you wanna call them by their Spanish name) were dodging and your bullets in RE4 they were TONS more fun then the zombies in RE1, RE2, AND RE3. i wouldn't jump to conclusions saying that it won't be as fun as the 360 version just yet

I'm a big wii supporter and all that, but i believe that they should have not even bothered porting this game over to the wii. They should've made a whole new dead rising for the wii from the ground up, making the most use of the wii capabilities. This is just sad :(