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Stormbringer · Feb 25, 2009

From N- Europe :

British publication NGamer are set to feature a first look at Red Steel 2, the highly-anticipated sequel to the slashy/shooty Wii launch title.

Red Steel 2 is an elusive beast; Ubisoft haven't confirmed much beyond its existence, and the fact that it's set to support the waggle-enhancing MotionPlus accessory. Beyond that, gamers are completely in the dark.

However, it looks as though Red Steel 2 is in a presentable state right now, as the "Next Month" page in Issue #34 of British Nintendo magazine NGamer promises to feature a first look at Red Steel 2 and "MotionPlus swordsmanship" in the May 2009 issue, which will hit news stands on Wednesday March 25th.

Ubisoft have slated Red Steel 2 for a Q4 2009 release, which gives you plenty of time to catch on the highly-anticipated sequel's flawed yet admirable predecessor.

Yeah, I was wondering what happened to this one. Could be interesting to see what they managed to do with this after all this time. The franchise certainly has potential, the main thing being not to fuck it up...again.

P.S :

Gaffer Shiggy called that back in December by the way. Maybe he can pop into this thread and tell us more about this

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Azure J · Feb 25, 2009

Year of the Wii rolls on... :O

Dead Prince · Feb 25, 2009

Coool.

Didn't Nintendo Power have something secretive as well? i wonder if it's RS2 too. unless it was revealed then sorry :lol

RoboPlato · Feb 25, 2009

The first one was a flawed game with a lot of potential. I hope that after the time they've had and a hopefully higher budget this could be good.

ThatObviousUser · Feb 25, 2009

Needs a strong E3 showing, but I'm holding out hope it'll be great.

...even though it's Ubi.

KevinCow · Feb 25, 2009

I half expect it to be changed to Imagine: Yakuzaz.

Carlisle · Feb 25, 2009

A reannouncement of an announcement with the date of another announcement.

MarzipaNMOS · Feb 25, 2009

AzureJericho said:
Year of the Wii rolls on... :O

why'd you do it man, why'd you do it?

Azure J · Feb 25, 2009

Carlisle said:
A reannouncement of an announcement with the date of another announcement.

This gen will live on in infamy for this. :lol

Edit - To poster above me, shits and giggles really. I hope it didn't have any bad consequences.

Seriously.

Amir0x · Feb 25, 2009

highly anticipated, you say

Ysiadmihi · Feb 25, 2009

Red Steel was a good game ruined by horrid controls. All Ubisoft has to do is copy World at War's controls and RS2 should end up pretty good.

dreamcastmaster · Feb 25, 2009

If they fix the flaws of the original then this could be one to look out for.

Grecco · Feb 25, 2009

Amir0x said:
highly anticipated, you say

highly anticipated soundtrack.

Amir0x · Feb 25, 2009

Grecco said:
highly anticipated soundtrack.

i am holding my signed Red Steel Soundtrack as we speak in glee

Fuu · Feb 25, 2009

British publication NGamer are set to feature a first look at Red Steel 2, the highly-anticipated sequel to the slashy/shooty Wii launch title.

I'm quite sleepy and I've actually read this as "slashy/shitty".

EatChildren · Feb 25, 2009

Its going to be interesting to see how this turns out.

On one hand Red Steel is a pretty damn nice look game with some really cool concepts. But on the other it messed up in some pretty stupid areas (eg: bounding box) and ultimately fell short of being anything great.

Word on the street is that a different team is behind Red Steel 2. I figure UbiSoft will either try and cash in on the solid Red Steel sales / shooter market and push out a sack of crap riding off MotionPlus use, or they will learn from their mistakes of the first and release something worth looking forward to.

Fingers crossed its the latter.

Gamer @ Heart · Feb 25, 2009

I loved the first one. Low expectation is the key.

Hopefully it will all look better that the last level in the first game.

Threi · Feb 25, 2009

every fucking thread i swear:

1. Post about Red Steel
2. Post about Red Steel's mediocrity
3. Post about Red Steel's soundtrack
4. Ami0x's post about signed copy of Red Steel soundtrack

jesus mix it up a little :/

Xellos · Feb 25, 2009

I'm feeling optimistic about this game. Red Steel had some good ideas and interesting levels, and Ubi actually tried to make the game look and sound good. Most of Red Steel's problems stem from rushing to meet Wii's launch: nobody knew how to do FPS controls on Wii, the motion control wasn't implemented well, and there wasn't time to smooth out the framerate/technical issues. Red Steel 2 should have none of these problems.

pakkit · Feb 25, 2009

Amir0x said:
highly anticipated, you say

Irony, I sense.

D-Pad · Feb 25, 2009

Looking forward to the announcement. Next we'll have announcements telling us to look forward to an announcement of an announcement.

... Wait! Don't tell me...

Hero of Legend · Feb 25, 2009

I still have the original GI unveiling issue of the original game.

Good times!

DeathbyVolcano · Feb 25, 2009

I am hopeful. Now that they can see how well FPS games can be on the system (MP3, MoH, CoD), they should be able to, you know, have a good game.

Teknoman · Feb 25, 2009

MOTION PLUS!

-WindYoshi- · Feb 25, 2009

Hero of Legend said:
I still have the original GI unveiling issue of the original game.

RED STEEEEEL!!!!!

cw_sasuke · Feb 25, 2009

could be a big wii game....

DreD · Feb 25, 2009

The first game was developped by UbiSoft Montpelier, but this one is apparently done by another team. I still own the first game and I think it was pretty enjoyable once you got the hang of the controls. Here's hoping there will be more shooting and less swordfighting this time around.

Gahiggidy · Feb 25, 2009

Well, the motion+ won't do much to add to shooting like it will for the sword fighting.

rollingstart · Feb 25, 2009

Gahiggidy said:
Well, the motion+ won't do much to add to shooting like it will for the sword fighting.

a stable frame rate and general improvements (aka steal from any recent Wii FPS) would benefit the shooting sements

Red Steel 1 was an awful game, but I'll give it some credit for having an unique, if not nausiating, style to it. Only Stranglehold really had the same feel in terms of locations and all that.

Strike · Feb 25, 2009

Hopefully they get it right this time.

Linkhero1 · Feb 25, 2009

I actually enjoyed the first game more than I thought I would. I mean it had a lot of bugs and glitches but if they fix all that shit up it would have been a good game. I'm really anticipating this game and have been waiting for an official announcement for some time. "Hey it's that Gaijin!"

Zoramon089 · Feb 25, 2009

If you think about it, Red Steel with good aiming controls (now that devs seem to know what they're doing as evidenced by MP3, MoH2 and The Conduit) and much better sword fighting would have been a pretty decent game. The graphics weren't bad for a launch game and will surely be better.

With a bigger budget, which I'm hoping the sequel get considering the original was a million seller, the presentation could be greatly improved (also the menu was pretty sick the cutscenes were lackluster) and overall we could be looking at a solid game

ivysaur12 · Feb 25, 2009

Announcements of announcements. Sweet.

pgtl_10 · Feb 25, 2009

Here's hoping the game would turn out great.

billy.sea · Feb 25, 2009

Hope it will have the same effect as Killzone 2, the first one being a big anticipated 'Halo Killer' and then flopped, and the 2nd one turn out to be great.

mentalfloss · Feb 25, 2009

pakkit said:
Irony, I sense.

A Link to the Past · Feb 25, 2009

If this turns out good, I could see it being a success like its predecessor, but if bad, will probably fail.

Azure J · Feb 25, 2009

I wonder if this game would benefit from HVS' Quantum3 engine much. Ubi has the art assets to pull off something highly appealing, and MotionPlus would certainly add to the sword mechanics. At this point, I just wanna hear more about how they intend to mesh things better this time around.

pakkit · Feb 25, 2009

A Link to the Snitch said:
If this turns out good, I could see it being a success like its predecessor, but if bad, will probably fail.

It'll sell well regardless, but the fact that Ubisoft stripped the first team that had the project of their game seems to suggest that they actually know that higher quality will potentially net them astronomical sales.

Rolf NB · Feb 25, 2009

Ysiadmihi said:
Red Steel was a good game ruined by horrid controls. All Ubisoft has to do is copy World at War's controls and RS2 should end up pretty good.

Yeah. In terms of level design and visuals Red Steel was awesome. Unfortunately, they seem to want to extend the motion-based swordfighting.
*sigh*

Nuclear Muffin · Feb 25, 2009

Red Steel was a great concept that was poorly executed. I don't expect the sequel to be anything different, Ubisoft couldn't give a toss about the quality of their Wii games.

Model 500 · Feb 25, 2009

What they need to do for RS2 in my opinion:

Keep the excellent sound effects and music. This game had one of the best SFX and music in a game like this. The cracking head shot sound gets a bonus point.

Keep the level design, gameplay flow and the b-movie style and attitude.

Keep the downward flick of the nunchuck for reloading, it felt great after getting used to the overall controls. At least make it optional.

Get rid of the broken control scheme and look in the direction of MoH and Conduit, just copy them straight.* As much customization as possible.

Steady frame rate.

Proper online mode.

Get rid of the unskippable cut-scenes, at least for the second play-through.

This would make Red Steel 2 absolutely amazing in my book.

* Tbh, this alone would make it great.

pakkit · Feb 25, 2009

Nuclear Muffin said:
Red Steel was a great concept that was poorly executed. I don't expect the sequel to be anything different, Ubisoft couldn't give a toss about the quality of their Wii games.

Not to mention the upcoming Broken Sword, and the pretty decent 3rd Raving Rabbids.

Eteric Rice · Feb 25, 2009

pakkit said:
Not to mention the upcoming Broken Sword, and the pretty decent 3rd Raving Rabbids.

Tenchu is just being published by Ubisoft.

Please don't mention Rabbids. Mini-game compilations (that aren't Let's Tap) tend to make us Wii owners gnash our teeth.

We will cut you open, remove your non-vital organs, and play with your blood.

Stormbringer · Feb 25, 2009

pakkit said:
Not to mention the upcoming Broken Sword, and the pretty decent 3rd Raving Rabbids.

..., Anno, TMNT , possibly No More Heroes 2 in the US... Yeah, although their internal, non-casual oriented studios don't seem quite commited to the Wii, I think some of the games they pick up for publishing nowadays make for a solid range of titles. I think they've definitely come a long way in term of proposal for this platform.

Always-honest · Feb 25, 2009

i actually enjoyed the first one. and there is lots of room for improvement. bring it.

Mr. Pointy · Feb 25, 2009

Fuu said:
I'm quite sleepy and I've actually read this as "slashy/shitty".

That's the first game in a nutshell. I mean, Red Steel's soundtrack was top notch, it looked decent a lot of the time and the style was pretty cool, but jeez those controls were 7 shades of buttered ass. I'm really hoping Ubisoft don't fuck up RS2, because I really wanted to like the first game.

CTLance · Feb 25, 2009

Hm. We'll see. I'll be keeping my emotions in check, that's for sure. RS1 was pretty nice, but I don't really trust Ubi on the Wii anymore.

wRATH2x · Feb 25, 2009

Yes Im really excited about a sequel to a suckfest.

Stop setting yourselves up for disappointment guys.

pakkit · Feb 25, 2009

Eteric Rice said:
Tenchu is just being published by Ubisoft.

I know, but they still had to pick it up. Ubisoft isn't "Nintendo-like quality," but they're doing much better than the shitfest they fed us in 2006 and 2007.

Wrath2X said:
Yes Im really excited about a sequel to a suckfest.

Killzone 2 turned out okay.

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