“Dead Rising” was one of those games for the Xbox 360 that had everything a person could want. It had hordes of zombies; it had numerous ways to kill said zombies.

Really, what else can a video game strive to do?

Capcom, the publisher of the title, decided to bring the zombie killing fun to the Wii, and create an experience that can only be replicated by jamming hundreds of push-pins into one’s eyeballs. This experience’s new name is “Dead Rising: Chop till you Drop.”

The concept for “Dead Rising” is that you’re a freelance photojournalist by the name of Frank West who has received an anonymous tip that something is not well in the small fictional town of Williamette. You arrive by helicopter in the heart of the town, which happens to be an indoor mall, and find that the hamlet has been over run by the undead.

Much like the George Romero film “Dawn of the Dead,” you and a group of people have to survive in the mall until help can arrive.

On the 360, you would fight large hordes of the undead with whatever you could find on hand, such as trash cans, benches, large stuffed animals and maybe even a gun if you got lucky.

On the Wii version, you fight small groups of zombies that all look like low polygon messes, thanks to the lower horsepower of the Wii. There are also parrots that drop hand grenades and poodles that lunge at you and knock you down, wait for the exact moment you can climb to your feet, and lunge at you again.

If this wasn’t annoying as it is, there are also obese female zombie cops with tasers, giant rednecks with machetes and what appears to be a fellow zombified photojournalist chucking hand grenades to make things more difficult.

You are also tasked with escorting survivors in the mall to a safe house of sorts, which involves you finding them, completing some arbitrary task so they’ll let you save them, and then walking back to the safe house while zombies eat your new friend, causing you to lose the game and start the process over again.

This is a mandatory process, which amazes me, because somebody in development signed off on this, thinking it was fun. This person will never face criminal charges. This person will sleep soundly tonight.

I don’t want to live in a world where innocent people are given the death penalty and the developers of “Dead Rising: Chop till you Drop” are allowed to walk the streets.