Nintendo Wii Zombie Freakout

Anyone who has a love for zombies, particularly withing the medium of video games should be all smiles. At the GC (Games Convention: Leipzig) yesterday one largely anticipated game, Dead Rising: Chop Til You Drop made its gameplay video debut. On top of that we were introduced to House of the Dead: Overkill.

You know you have a couple of good zombie games, if both are being banned in Germany. Ironic considering both are being shown off in the country they’re being banned from.

Dead Rising: Chop Til You Drop you more than likely have heard of. We’ve been told of some details of the game. We know there will be point and shoot controls for firing your projectile weapons. We also know that Capcom is working to make the save system less awful than it was on the Xbox 360. There will be motion controls attached to the melee weapons as well. A Capcom exec let it be known that most of the melee weapons will have a ‘charge’ option so you can pull off more powerful attacks by shaking your Wii Remote. Now we get to see that in action…



and here’s the debut trailer…

The next zombie game we got to check out from GC: Leipzig was Sega’s next zombie rail shooter House Of The Dead: Overkill. It looks like House of the Dead: Overkill is really going to embrace the B movie spirit, with a trailer montage reminiscent of Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror. I’m a huge House of the Dead fan, so I was really excited to see this trailer debut at GC: Leipzig. The game is being developed by Headstrong Games, most noted for Battalion Wars; so we know the game is in good hands.