Just What To Look For With The Excellent Wii's Red Steel 2!

range of exclusive games, including Red Steel. This title was primarily a FPS in which the player could switch between gun action and sword action by employing the Wii remote or nunchuk. This impressive gameplay generated high excitement amongst the videogame society, and also the title was amongst the highest selling launch games for Nintendo's console. Developers Ubisoft have finally created a sequel, and Wii's Red Steel 2 is coming out shortly.

Wii's Red Steel 2 is transfering the action from the Mafia oriented mob story of the original and relocating to a desert environment, in which you play the enigmatic 'Swordsman'. Seeking revenge on a variety of enemies, you fight your way through varied environments using the same play technique as in the first.

The controls have been fine tuned to a great level with this title. In spite of the high profits of the original, one downside that was regularly cited by critics was that the controls didn't precisely convey player movements to the screen. By employing the new WiiMotion Plus Wii's Red Steel 2 intends to counteract this downside drastically.

Also, the title takes a fresh graphical style. Instead of the realistic look of the original, Wii's Red Steel 2 is done with a cell shaded design, giving the title a nicely stylised finish. Multiplayer has additionally been dropped from this title, as Ubisoft state they needed to place all their effort into making the best single player campaign possible.

The original Red Steel was something of a sullied work of art; it had all the promise to be an impressive and revolutionary title but was simply let down by below-par controls. If Wii's Red Steel 2 will rectify this downside, then we could be seeing a really magnificent title.