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[Stitch]

Frank West, the ugliest videogame hero eve

wow IGN fails again

While the 360 game opened with a helicopter scene where players had to snap photos of the zombie outbreak below, the Wii game skips over that and dumps players right onto the roof of the Willamette mall.

Why? Just because you can't take pictures they had to remove the whole fucking intro?

 

[Creamium]

wow IGN fails again

this is false how? Frank West is one ugly motherfucker

 

[epmode]

this is false how? Frank West is one ugly motherfucker

Yes. It is why we love him.

 

[pakkit]

IGN has vids up, including this little jewel

 

[Tron 2.0]

this is false how? Frank West is one ugly motherfucker

What? Frank is hot.

 

[Slayven]

IGN has vids up, including this little jewel

That just made Frank look like a dick, he could have saved somebody.

 

[comedy bomb]

IGN has vids up, including this little jewel

ugh

 

[Rewrite]

IGN has vids up, including this little jewel

lol, I love the cutscene at the end.

 

[Christopher]

I don't have / want a 360 so I was always kind of looking foward to this, rentual for sure.

 

[Jaded Alyx]

wow IGN fails again



Why? Just because you can't take pictures they had to remove the whole fucking intro?

The intro is still there.

 

[pakkit]

lol, I love the cutscene at the end.

Yeah, that was where the fail really starts to sink in. IGN seems to be having a grand ol' time with it, although most of the strengths listed in the preview were strengths of the original material, and not of this "Wiidate."

 

[comedy bomb]

I don't have / want a 360 so I was always kind of looking foward to this, rentual for sure.

You must already have a PS3.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

It's easy to understand why this game looks so much worse than RE4 did.

RE4 looked amazing (and still does in many ways) because of its unbelievable art design which used a lot of lighting and sharp contrast, and had a variety of interesting and unique areas. This is a shopping mall. It's a bunch of sterile clean colors and washed in fluorescent lighting.

 

[Haunted]

IGN has vids up, including this little jewel

:lol oh wow.

I don't even know what to comment on first - the paltry number of zombies, the fact that they pop up 5 metres in front of Frank, or the obvious and borderline hilarious disparity between gameplay and the cutscene.

 

[Shinz Kicker]

IGN has vids up, including this little jewel

i love dead rising, the zombies were like popping in as he walked. you will probably end up hitting a zombie with the car before u ever see him.

 

[Tenbatsu]

Game in stock at Play-Asia
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-z3-77-1-49-en-15-dead+rising-70-36gx.html

 

[rollingstart]

It's easy to understand why this game looks so much worse than RE4 did.

RE4 looked amazing (and still does in many ways) because of its unbelievable art design which used a lot of lighting and sharp contrast, and had a variety of interesting and unique areas. This is a shopping mall. It's a bunch of sterile clean colors and washed in fluorescent lighting.

this same setting looks phenomenalon the 360

 

[Tron 2.0]

this same setting looks phenomenalon the 360

I don't know if I'd go that far. It was great for the time but hasn't exactly aged well. It's not a bad looking game, but I wouldn't say it's a real showcase. The real star was always the amount of zombies anyway.

When that video first started I was like, "Oh, that's not so bad..." but as he ran towards the staircase and there were fewer and fewer and finally no zombies I'll admit to being a little depressed.

Off topic a little, but anytime I play Dead Rising on the 360 I have to die in that area. If I run to the stairs successfully the game kicks me back to the title screen and I lose all my progress. Not cool. Luckily it's pretty close to the beginning, but frustrating nonetheless.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

this same setting looks phenomenalon the 360

I know. Better graphics can make even boring settings look amazing, because you can retain the same basic look while adding a lot more detail.

 

[Stitch]

The intro is still there.

well i always thought that the helicopter scene was part of the intro. just interactive, which makes it even cooler.

and the pop-in...... who ported this? some apprentices? it actually would look alright without the pop-in. ok, there are less zombies than in the cutscenes/the 360 version but it looks really dumb when the mall is empty and then all of a sudden there are 5 zombies in front of you.
yes there are some other ugly things in the game. everythings really lowpoly, lowres textures, horrible animations and no physics but the pop-in... OH GOD the pop-in.... it will haunt me in my dreams >___< GTA IV pop-in tree, your master has arrived.




edit: ahaha i just remembered that trailer where the player was sniping enemys which were right in front of him. well now we know why :lol

 

[rollingstart]

Have any previews so far mentioned if there is a 180 spin? it's taking a lot from RE4 here, and one of the best parts of RE4 movement is that spin.

I don't know if I'd go that far. It was great for the time but hasn't exactly aged well. It's not a bad looking game, but I wouldn't say it's a real showcase. The real star was always the amount of zombies anyway.

I disagree, I think it still looks amazing. Even excluding all the enemy zombies, it has a really nice look to everything. There was a nice sheen to all the different objects in the world, from the floors to Frank's jacket. The subtle blurring going on also made everything look even better. It's a great looking game.

 

[Wario64]

Looks pathetic. Zombie pop up? What the hell is this

 

[alr1ght]

IGN has vids up, including this little jewel

 

[Haunted]

edit: ahaha i just remembered that trailer where the player was sniping enemys which were right in front of him. well now we know why

:lol Hadn't even thought of that. Wonder how they handled the sniper family fight with that degree of pop-up.

 

[The Hermit]

the more I see this game the more I think "what the hell was Capcom thinking"

 

[scitek]

After seeing the tunnel vid, and now that vid with the zombies fading in, this looks absolutely atrocious. I can't believe they're even allowing this to have the Dead Rising name. What an embarrassment.

 

[markatisu]

Even with that video IGN writes

We're already enjoying ourselves in the Wii version of this Dawn of the Dead ripoff. As is to be expected, it's not as visually impressive as the 360 game was. But the gameplay is still here, featuring a greater variety of anti-zombie tools than any other game around.

I wonder if it will get a 5 or something when they score it

 

[Bizzyb]

IGN has vids up, including this little jewel

:lol
I love how the low res 360 cutscenes used show HUNDREDS of Zombies yet when you play the game the Mall has like 1/20 of the zombies just shown

pathetic.

 

[WickedLaharl]

reading thru this thread is fairly amusing as folks stop defending the game and come to the sad realization that it's turning out to be a bad

 

[pakkit]

reading thru this thread is fairly amusing as folks stop defending the game and come to the sad realization that it's turning out to be a bad

It's initial and unfounded hatred that pisses me off, where people say "OMG WII SUX CANT DO THIS GAMING OMG THIS HURTS CHANCES OF DEAD RISING 2??," but I'm not going to endlessly defend a game that does, in fact, turn out to be a shoe-horned portamathingy.

 

[Slayven]

It is going to be damn near impossible to get the megabuster.

 

[Y2Kev]

dead rising: chop till you can release it on wii

 

[rollingstart]

dead rising: chop till you can release it on wii

very clever :lol

 

[BobFromPikeCreek]

The intro is still there.

Here she is. Willamette, Colorado. Population: 594.

 

[Tenbatsu]

NGame - dead rising :chop till you drop 55%

Others
Wii
mario power tennis 77%
the house of the dead overkill 82%
family ski & snowboard 87%
onechanbara, bikni zombie slayers 50%
the king of fighters : the orochi saga 53%
samurai showdown anthology 74%
deadly creatures 68%
nerf n-strike 67%
cooking mama 2 : world kitchen 39%
safecracker 28%

DS
elite forces, unit 77 70%
dragon quest v, hand of hevenly bride 75%
populous ds 54%
elebits: the adventures of kai and zero 75%
blue dragon plus 72%
moon 75%
xg blast 76%
tornado 61%

 

[Htown]

So basically they're saying if you're going to play a game in which you kill a bunch of zombies, the choice between Dead Rising Wii and Bikini Zombie Slayers is basically a toss-up?
:lol

Oh, hey. Good question here: which has more zombies on screen at once - Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop or Oneechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers?

 

[donny2112]

Oh, hey. Good question here: which has more zombies on screen at once - Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop or Oneechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers?

I'm pretty sure it's Bikini Zombie Slayers.

 

[Tenbatsu]

New Videos
http://www.capcom.co.jp/deadrising_wii/system.html#6

Famitsu nv rate this game did they?

 

[Chinner]

Can't believe you guys are just stting here letting EmCee take digs at Dead Rising 360. Scandalous I do say.

 

[pakkit]

Can't believe you guys are just stting here letting EmCee take digs at Dead Rising 360. Scandalous I do say.

You haven't visited the "games you thought you would like but hated" thread, have you?

 

[Chinner]

Your assumption is correct, good sir.

 

[Father_Brain]

the more I see this game the more I think "what the hell was Capcom thinking"

Capcom at least had the right idea in radically reworking the game for Wii, rather than attempting to down-port it. They just completely half-assed it.

 

[m3k]

NGame - dead rising :chop till you drop 55%

Others
Wii
mario power tennis 77%
the house of the dead overkill 82%
family ski & snowboard 87%
onechanbara, bikni zombie slayers 50%
the king of fighters : the orochi saga 53%
samurai showdown anthology 74%
deadly creatures 68%
nerf n-strike 67%
cooking mama 2 : world kitchen 39%
safecracker 28%

DS
elite forces, unit 77 70%
dragon quest v, hand of hevenly bride 75%
populous ds 54%
elebits: the adventures of kai and zero 75%
blue dragon plus 72%
moon 75%
xg blast 76%
tornado 61%

interesting marks

 

[Nabs]

holy shit @ the pop-in :lol

 

[beje]

the more I see this game the more I think "what the hell was Capcom thinking"

The idea was good before they decided to put all their juniors in front of it with a 100$ budget and a engine that wasn't intended for huge environments.

 

[Chinner]

So I was watching the blender video in the chapter 6 section of the capcom website when I saw this:

Holy shit, look at all that food! We already had a idea that this game was going to be easy, but this is just taking to the extremes of easy!

 

[pakkit]

It's for the Cooking Mama metagame: Chop Till You Dice.

 

[bomb_jack]

I had a go of this the other day. It's much much worse than I expected. The controls are horrific. Survivor AI seems to be even worse than in the original.

:lol at using captured footage from the 360 version for the cut-scenes. I would have loved to see the meetings held for this game during development.

 

[EatChildren]

I don’t know what’s worse; the fact Capcom have spent time, money, and manpower developing this sack of crap, or that there are still people out there on the internets that defend the existence of this atrocity to the bitter end.

This isn’t even one of those bad ideas you can see had potential or good intentions. Its just plain crud.

 

[markatisu]

I had a go of this the other day. It's much much worse than I expected. The controls are horrific. Survivor AI seems to be even worse than in the original.

:lol at using captured footage from the 360 version for the cut-scenes. I would have loved to see the meetings held for this game during development.

Could you elaborate on the controls? Not that I doubt it but Frank does so little it boggles the mind that using the RE4 engine/controls they could make it worse