Headstrong Games takes a jab at Capcom, Ubisoft
I don’t think anyone can deny that the new House of the Dead game for Wii is really hardcore. Very few – if any – casual gamers will pick it up and the developers are placing emphasis on appealing to the hardcore. Headstrong Games also appears to be doing everything in their power to make the game a very immersive experience. Meanwhile, Capcom is porting Dead Rising to the Wii. In a sense, Chop Till You Drop is a bit comparable to House of the Dead.
The House of the Dead producer Neil McEwan wasted no time in distancing the two games with a slight remark about the number of zombies in the game, however. “I can’t put a specific number on that at the moment because work is still going into level design and a lot will be influenced by game balancing and pacing. I would say again that we have an incredibly accomplished team at Headstrong who really know this hardware, so we’ll be pushing it for all it’s worth. We did take a look at some screens of a certain other zombie game that is being ported to Wii, and the general consensus was that we thought we could certainly do better.”
Neil additionally went on to give hope to every hardcore Wii owner while at the same time, managed to poke fun at Ubisoft. “There’s a lot of Wii fans worried about the decline of decent hardcore games on the system. No, guys — we’re not making a 30 hour-plus RPG here, but we are making something you are going to have a complete blast playing. We are making it with a nod to one of the greatest arcade series of all time and we hope you’ll just purely enjoy teaming up with buddies and posting those high scores on the forums with the rest of us. It’ll beat the shit out of grooming a horse.”
