If you have a Wii and a desire to play a game that features a sword-wielding cowboy, then Ubisoft has the game for you. It’s called Red Steel 2. And yeah, war has changed.
The June issue of Nintendo Power has the scoop on the game’s apparent overhaul. We haven’t seen the magazine yet, but Joystiq managed to pull two interesting details (and images) from it. The first is the obvious Wild West flair Ubisoft is shooting for.
The other scrap of information is the confirmation of MotionPlus support, which is something that The Conduit guys shied from when crafting their first-person shooter. Apparently, Ubisoft thinks MotionPlus makes the sword action much more realistic. Well, as realistic as cowboy sword fighting can get.
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9:00 PM on 04.28.2009
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Yes, I actually played (and own) the first Red Steel! >P But maybe got the player character's name wrong. XD
It felt a lot more solid to me.
That last moment with the old due before you went into the final mission? That was really pretty epic!
I got into the swordplay, despite the reality that it wasn't 1:1
I'm really looking forward to this one.
WiiMotion plus could fix that, as could a change of locale, but we'll see.
There really is no excuse for this game to be as poor as the original. All Ubisoft has to do is copy the IR achievements of other companies.
We made fun of him for buying the Wii all day long. Red Steel was the only game he could afford for 2 months!
@garison: Hey, I liked RS1 too! ;_; Sure, it was an early attempt at FPS controls that MP3 later clinched, and you could win the sword fights by flailing hard, but it wasn't really that bad a game, and it gets points for not being a minigame compilation or movie tie-in. =P
also fun fact: Red Steel is probably the crappiest game I've played to completion in recent years