I had heard madworld got pushed back to 2010 am i wrong on that?

You raise a good point because the author claimed he only saw 6 zombies through the entire concourse yet I've seen 4 times that many in one screen shot.

 I think you are talking about No More Heroes the sequel?

that very well could be, i hope so now, id like to try out madworld

konnichiwa is right no more heroes 2 is coming 2010, madworld is slated for 2009 Q1

I think there are a variety of reasons that this particular game looks like it may be going down the tube..

Mainly the fact that the developers didn't take the right approach. Wii is not an XBOX 360 and never will be, however Dead Rising could have been very well done on Wii with the right Wii specific approach..

Another contributing factor aside from developers and hardware limitations is the timeframe that this game has been in development and likely, the state of mind of the devs. They would be thinking that Wii owners (mainstream type) would like to go around killing zombies and you know they are probably right.. Since they don't want to ruin the Resident Evil name, they decided to go with this..

Looking at the new trailer from TGS, there are 30ish zombies on screen at the 32 second mark.

In most game play sections though, it does appear that you are facing between 6-10 zombies at any one time.

This may actually be more realistic, however. As anyone who has been to a shopping mall recently knows that they are more empty than they were 5-10 years ago as people visit "town center" shopping complexes instead.

Mike from Morgantown

I'll tell you how they could have made this game MUCH better... probably even better than the original........................................ If they can only put maybe 20 zombies on screen at once, they should have made them like the 28 Weeks Later zombies. Extremely fast and aggressive and hard to get away from. This would have upped the tension and suspense, and would have made for a great time trying to shoot at them if they dodged your bullets on the way in.

Instead, they have 20 zombies..... going seriously slow and just making it too damn easy. I haven't played the game yet, but in all honesty, it really doesn't bode well when a preview has this type of tone.

trying to rationalize the reduction in zombies based on real world, that seems like a stretch. also form what dead rising showed zombies were headed to the mall from all over town. and without the tunnel level crawling with zombies, this game will always be missing something, i remember deadwalking above them to escape after i had used up all my weapons .... and zombie walking god that was fun.  or even upstairs in between the gun and knife shop so many zombies to kill 

Im still not convinced about this till I've seen the real final build of the game or someone actually played the game.

When I've seen the trailer there are 10-20 zombies on the screen at a time. I think kotaku just bashing the game because of a demo...