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A closer look at the original Red Steel 2
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Mushroomer25
Member
Good. The version of Red Steel 2 we got was one of the Wii's very best.
Spieler Eins
Member
Looks great. I mean, the final version was good too, but I think I'd personally prefered the urban settings.
Also, wasn't there even a version before that? Which was some wack scifi Japan or something...
Also, wasn't there even a version before that? Which was some wack scifi Japan or something...
CriterionDog
Member
Wow, this looks awesome! Although, I do love the western theme/setting in Red Steel 2 a lot. I really hope one day we get a Red Steel 3. : (
Red Steel 2 was one of the best Wii games, ever. It's ending was just so lackluster. I really wanted a sequel after finishing it. Please Ubisoft.
edit: Online multiplayer would have been really cool! Oh well.
How did Red Steel 2 sell? I recall it didn't do so great.
Red Steel 2 was one of the best Wii games, ever. It's ending was just so lackluster. I really wanted a sequel after finishing it. Please Ubisoft.
edit: Online multiplayer would have been really cool! Oh well.
How did Red Steel 2 sell? I recall it didn't do so great.
All of the shots in the Urban setting here don't klick with me. Those in the eastern setting do. IMO Ubisoft made the right choice regarding Red Steel 2's artstyle and setting. That game really was fantastic, all it needed were better sidequests and a more varied main quest. Still one of the most fun games I've ever played thanks to the ingenious use of Wii Motion+.
IIRC < 500k, don't ask me for a source though.
I think the Red Steel developers realized people were not happy with typical shootbagers on the Wii so they made an atypical one when they released and they made an amazingly fun motion game with fun combat.
What is a shootbager?
Well you see... It's like a carpetbagger but with a video game genre.
Oh dear what have I done. Edited.
Nerdkiller
Membeur
About 270,000.
http://www.edge-online.com/news/vandenberghe-motion-control-must-become-standard/#null
Edge Staff said:
Just googled it again. 500k was what Ubisoft expected it to sell after reducing their initial expectation of 1Mil.
http://www.gamezone.de/Red-Steel-Wii-137704/News/Red-Steel-2-Ubisoft-senkt-Absatzerwartungen-957432/
huh? I don't remember seeing any of them. Don't think any of those were ported to the new engine.
Haunted
Member
Are you sure? That temple environment looks super familiar somehow.
edit: looking at a YT video of the last level, it is a similar Asian-temple style design, but not the same.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
I need a red steel 3
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
Bought Red Steel 2 but never finished it, kind of lost interest after a couple hours. I should probably give it another chance.
You don't remember this?
They were all set to reveal this game pretty early on, but then it was scrapped and moved to a completely different studio.
Really enjoyed the Red Steel 2 we got. They waited far to long to finally come out with it and when they did it didn't seem to have any push from Ubisoft. That was the main concern leading up to it's release for those that were following it. The negative reaction to Red Steel 1 didn't help either. Perhaps would have been better if it had been named something else. It really was one of the games that was as fun as it was because of the motion control and pointer shooting. Wouldn't have been anywhere close to as fun as it was with just button presses. Was always annoyed Nintendo didn't get behind it as well and treated as it if were their own game due to it championing the motion plus tech.
flatearthpandas
Member
First game never hit my radar but I loved the second game. Ultimate Electronics had it set up as a demo unit and it looked too intriguing not to try. Bought soon after.
These shots don't look like they would have grabbed me the same but if combat was the same I probably still would have bought. No love lost for what might have been though.
These shots don't look like they would have grabbed me the same but if combat was the same I probably still would have bought. No love lost for what might have been though.
Red Steel 2 should have sold more but it had two big things against it.
1. The reputation and disappointment of Red Steel 1.
2. A long delay. It was supposed to launch alongside Wii Sports Resort to support Motion Plus. When it missed that launch window it missed out on a lot of build up.
1. The reputation and disappointment of Red Steel 1.
2. A long delay. It was supposed to launch alongside Wii Sports Resort to support Motion Plus. When it missed that launch window it missed out on a lot of build up.
ShockingAlberto
Member
FUN NOTE
At one point, an HD version of Red Steel 2 existed.
At one point, an HD version of Red Steel 2 existed.
And then ZombiU sales happened.
Care to elaborate?
I think the Red Steel developers realized people were not happy with typical shootbangers on the Wii so they made an atypical one when they released and they made an amazingly fun motion game with fun combat.
The one thing that I hated about Red Steel 2 is the main character looks pretty cool but the entire game was in first person with no option to switch to third person.
Gave up on playing the game in the end as I couldn't connect with the main character.
Bluemercury
Member
Yeah why would they release an hd version instead of a new one...
Cheaper to make and possibly setting it up for a future Red Steel 3.
It's also possible that it existed on an existing HD console
It existed on multiple consoles, actually.
Red Steel killed the Red Steel franchise.
Why was it canned? Which control devices did it support?
Dunno. I'd bet on WiiU and PS3 because they would support the control scheme easily. Dunno why it was canned, but it's not surprising. Ubisoft is putting a majority of its resources in to Assassin's Creed.
Spring-Loaded
Member
The more realistic/believable a game is, the more detailed and dynamic its systems need to be in order to keep from being boring. The Wii wouldn't be able to have realistically destructible environments or a lot going on at the same time. The more stylistic approach was the right direction to take because a game doesn't have to have high fidelity in order to make launching and enemy into the air, jumping after them and spiking them back into the ground in first-person an amazing experience.
Buckethead
Banned
I loved the original Red Steel.
Sure it was flawed and the bullshots didn't help but the sequel looked completely uninteresting to me.
This looks better.
Sure it was flawed and the bullshots didn't help but the sequel looked completely uninteresting to me.
This looks better.