Metareview: Dead Rising Chop 'Till You Drop [update]

i've seen the video review for this on ign and some of the zombies just move around like idiots and rarely attack you.

Capcom should just quit worrying about this and hurry up with Monster Hunter 3 and the localization to Tatsunoko vs Capcom

I hope Capcom loses money in this game. I'm sick of nasty ports, when developers should be sitting down, and crunching out fresh new ideas. There is no excuse to leave the Wii behind. With that said, I understand the Wii prints money, and as a Wii owner I refuse to buy such products. Give me something fresh, holla..

KILLZONE 2 >.>

It's actually getting pretty decent reviews on Amazon.

And really, it doesn't sound like there was anything lazy about this port. Capcom's seemed excited about it for months, and there are counteless interviews talking about how much thought and effort the devs were putting into it.

Even if this specifically was a fail, it really does sound like the type of energy we want devs to have when working on the Wii!

I never played the 360 version, so my impressions aren't based on any type of comparison.

I wavered a lot about whether to buy it, sometimes changing my mind 2 or 3 times a day each time new videos popped up on the Internet. Finally, I decided simply to take a chance on having fun with it regardless of the negative comments (and because there weren't very many other new games this month to spend money on).

I've only spent about 90 minutes with the game so far (because I'm trying to get through Another Code: R before getting too engrossed in another game). While I certainly understand the disparaging remarks about this game "underperforming", it took me less than an hour to get beyond all of that and just get into the business of experiencing "Dawn of the Dead" in game-form. It certainly isn't perfect, and I probably paid too much for it, but so far the game is ridiculous, nasty, zombie-killing fun. (I should probably finish it before buying House of the Dead: Overkill, which I completely expect to be a much more fulfilling zombie-massacring experience.)

Well, I hope it does well regardless of the reviews. I'm not sure why I feel that way, but I just do. Not that I have intention of purchasing it for myself (Budget is super limited at the moment!)

The problem isn't developers porting games to Wii. Ports are good. Ports increase game's availability. The problem is crappy ports. The problem is porting the game to PS2, and then porting the PS2 version to Wii. I, for one, have some games I would absolutely love to see ported to Wii. Some of them would need graphics revamped. Some of them would need graphics toned back. Some of them would need IR controls, some of them would be best left with no motion controls at all. Most of them would need a 16:9 mode added.

Ported games are by default good. They allow us to play games on Wii that we'd otherwise need to buy other consoles for. We just need to hold developers to a far higher standard than they have been. Demand at least Okami, not Rock Band.

From actually reading the IGN review, I'm not quite sure why it got
such a low score. He said that at its heart, the game is still Dead
Rising, and its still fun. He dinged it mostly, it seems to me, on
graphics, longevity/replayability (its a short game, apparently), and
a horrible, horrible storyline. So...if the game is still fun, just
with less zombies...and it is, at its heart, still Dead Rising from
the 360, just with majorly toned down graphics...how come this got
the score it did, but the 360 version got much higher? The story
would have been the same...the game would have had the same length,
I'd imagine....so is it the prettier graphics that do it for the 360
Dead Rising?

It always seemed a really odd choice to port to the Wii. Its MAIN appeal was the simple number of zombies... and that the thing that gets lost in the translation.

That said, even the Wii should be able to manage more bad guys on screen than that does... GTA and all those battlefield-samurai games managed more onscreen characters back on the PS2...

such a strange choice all round...

More shovelware for the Wii. When are we going to see something worth playing? I haven't turned my Wii on in many months. My DS and PSP garner much more gameplay anymore.

Should have droped the "realistic" look of things for improved performance, people playing the wii are used to the less "life like" graphics for the most part. but... i dunno the overall defeat is probably just the high expectations set by the 360 vrs. probably would have been in their better interest to have made a similar game to dead rising which would have removed the high expectations. no complaints at lost aspects such as the camera, or the higher reliance on firearms vs the melee weapons... which really is what gets me, tagging it with "Chop till you drop" and makeing the main weaponry guns.... bah...! give me a good old parkbench and I'll killl you several thousand zombies before they even get into the mall.

Heres the thing about this game for the wii. If you haven't played the 360 version then it is a fun game relying heavily on the innovative wii controls. If you go into the game expecting the exact same thing as the 360 version with wii controls then it will be a let down. Still a fun game with an original concept if you havent played it before

t_m; Your second paragraph points out the flaw in your first.

The idea that the Wii simply cannot handle large amounts of Zombies on the screen is absurd; especially considering Chop 'Till You Drop has graphics that would probably fit onto a PS2.

And Sisyphus, what effort? They took Dead Rising, decided not to bother doing anything other than shoehorn it into the RE4 engine, and took out most of what made the game great; even simple things like large amounts of zombies. The developers might've personally put in effort, sure. I bet the people that work on a lot of shovelware are only doing it for the sake of their careers. I bet a lot of them want to take time to improve the game. But the fact is that despite whatever personal effort they may put in, the COMPANY shipped it rushed, underfunded, and generally intentionally crappy for the sake of money.

Every one please shut up. The game is good, really good. Don't slam it unless you've plated it.