What To Look Forward To With The Excellent Wii’s Red Steel 2!

March 5th, 2010 | About Satellite TV

range of exclusive games, including Red Steel. This title was essentially a FPS in which the user could toggle between gun action and sword action by using the Wii remote or nunchuk. This impressive gameplay generated high excitement throughout the gaming community, and therefore the title was one of the highest selling launch games for Nintendo’s console. Developers Ubisoft have finally developed a sequel, and Wii’s Red Steel 2 is due out this Spring.

Wii’s Red Steel 2 is shifting the action from the Mafia oriented mob storyline of the original and relocating to a desert environment, in which you control the enigmatic ‘Swordsman’. Seeking revenge on a variety of enemies, you battle your way through various locales using the same play technique as in the original.

The controls have been fine tuned to a great degree with this title. Despite the high profits of the original, one drawback that was regularly cited by critics was that the controls didn’t accurately convey user actions to the screen. By using the new WiiMotion Plus Wii’s Red Steel 2 hopes to counteract this drawback considerably.

Additionally, the title takes a fresh graphical approach. Rather than the realistic look of the original, Wii’s Red Steel 2 is done with a cell shaded design, giving the title an impressively stylised finish. Multiplayer has also been dropped from this title, as Ubisoft claim they wanted to put all their energy into making the best single player campaign possible.

The first Red Steel was really a flawed masterpiece; it had all the promise to be an impressive and innovative title yet was just let down by below-par controls. If Wii’s Red Steel 2 will rectify this drawback, then we might be seeing a really impressive title.