Red Steel 2 officially announced

- Still no blood.
- No multiplayer.
- Cel-shaded.

It's had a development time ~twice (probably more) than the original, with the entire focus being on single player, and having the original version of RS2 scrapped for a higher quality, so we'll see.

Red Steel was a lot more ambitious than people give it credit for. It's quite nice to look at for most part and, I feel, it was ultimately hampered by a rushed development time and controller limitations. I think people just get caught up on how the final game didn't play like how they imagined it.

Fingers crossed. If they can deliver a feature packed quality single player I'll be all over it.

People give Red Steel a bad wrap, more-so that it deserves, because the game was ultimately way overhyped and UbiSoft's fail train of Wii development adds insult to injury.

I had my fun with Red Steel at launch, considering, and while I now look back and really don't enjoy it, I can appreciate what it offered.

It had production values higher than most Wii games to date. Awesome music, really quite awesome graphics (for most part) that beat out most Wii games since, and genuinely ambitious gameplay.

Ubi really wanted to make an awesome motion controlled shooter/sword fighter. Problem? The Wii remote alone just isn't good enough. NO developer since, Nintendo included, have made a melee weapon combat game that fully revolves around motion controls. All the good melee fighters use a combination of buttons for basic attacks and simplistic gestures for combos and super moves.

Had Red Steel done that it would have been better, but different from what the developers wanted to do; motion controlled sword combat.

And sure, the gun combat was broken, but the fundamentals were there. It was the sloppy bounding box and turn speed that really broke it, as well as some pointer difficulties. These are things that could be easily fixed.

Not to mention the development period was very short. They were one of the first developers to get Wii devkits, but they still rushed the game for launch.

When you consider these I believe a sequel, with the right direction, has the potential to be quite good. I'm glad this has a longer development period, I'm glad they're still shooting for the stars (there's NO melee M+ we know of besides the Wii Sports Resort minigame), and I'm glad they had the brains to scrap the first version because they didn't feel it was up to standards.

If dedication pays off we're in for some fun.