Red Steel 2 announced, my roommate cringes in horror

What Mxyz said.

i hope theychage the shooting contols, i couldnt fuckng hit a thing on the first one. and make the sights diffrent

They should be forced to play Trespasser for a week straight. That should solve the rubber arm syndrome they had in the first Red Steel.

Also, a new design for the menus would be cool. Something that doesn't involve dragging small, blurry neon signs to bigger blurry neon signs.

I'm expecting that this is what they wanted out of RS1, but couldn't flesh out due to the launch window. I doubt anything spectacular will come out of it, but it'd be hard to imagine that they'd make a sequel without good reason considering how poorly received the first one was.

Played through and beat Red Steel... more because I got it at launch and I was taking breaks from Zelda, but none-the-less I did play through it. In some ways it really impressed me, some of the graphics looked so damn impressive, pillars blowing up and crazy particle and light effects; but it was very hit or miss, sometimes looking next gen and other times looking like a N64 game. At first the sword fighting was fun, but soon I was just twitching the nun-chuck and wii-mote cause the timing was all that mattered. Then there was the aiming, I could look past the terrible IR that caused the cursor to jerk like a meth-head picking bugs. Of course, the bullet-time mode saved it and let you slay the groups of guys quick while looking cool.

Sadly, the few things Ubisoft did right couldn't outweigh the many bugs, lacking graphics, and a aiming system that makes you want to perform Seppuku... aka fall on that sword you carry everywhere just in case someone decides guns are just too easy and needs a sword fight.

I mean really, how could not one person who produced or played the game before release notice that every time the game loaded something when playing the cursor jumped around like it was possessed.

That said, there was A LOT of potential in Red Steel, and it was a release title, surely rushed to meet the date. I think with a reasonable schedule, a decent team, and a somewhat decent engine to build off of, it could actually be a killer title if done right....

but it won't be done right, it'll be another flop cause they won't change enough and will try to cash in on the "sequel" aspect... Guessing 6/10

i never thought this game deserved the bad rap it got. i think the reason so many people didn't like it is it got overhyped.

also so many people try and play the game always doing the slow aiming no matter where they are, if you play it normal and only do the slow aiming when you are shooting and let go to switch to another guy the game works fairly well.

Once I actually finish the damn game, I'll be doing a post on it as a retrospective, methinks.

Score prediction: 5.0. That's from RevAnthony though, because I know he actually understands the ten point system. Everybody else will give it a seven.

red steel had to be the most dissapointing game i have ever played. it was the first wii shooter and was supposed to be real cool but the controls were shotty and the graphics sucked. i mean, the shooting controls are better in re4 wii addition. i hope they change a lot in the new one, including a different turning control and unlimited use of the sword.

predicted score? 7.5 mediocre.

Oh and DO A BARREL ROLL

4.5 its still gonna suck!