Capcom confirms lovely motion-sensitive controls to slaughter zombies with in Dead Rising...

If you've played Capcom's Resident Evil 4 for the Wii (and if you haven't, you really, really should've) then it appears the control scheme for the developers upcoming Wii port of Dead Rising should be nice and familiar.

Your gun's targeting reticule is aimed directly by the Wiimote, allowing you to just point and fire away. As in Resi 4, your reticule will turn red when hovering over an enemy. Players can then shake the Wiimote to reload. A similar shaking movement can be applied when trying shake off any zombies who have grabbed you. Sounds familiar? Yes indeed.

Alternative weapons are also controlled by the Wiimote (for example when using a baseball bat, players need to shake the Wiimote to build up power before swinging). Zoomed controls will also work similarly, zooming out using Z and C, and adjusting your aim with the Nunchuck's analogue stick.

You can even assign your top four weapons to the D-Pad, for easy hot-key access to your favourites.

Basically it looks like Capcom are employing an "if it's not broke, don't fix it" approach to Dead Rising, which, considering that Resident Evil 4 has one of the best control schemes we've ever used, is no bad thing.