Red Steel 2 Officially Announced. Update: Now with more trailer.

[Queasy]

Update (5/4): Trailer from an industry event in Brazil.

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Computers and Video Games - Looks like they've gone away from the setting in the first game and have now created a high-tech Western with guns and katanas. There is only a artist pic up now but the game is supposed to be featured in next week's Nintendo Power and Official Nintendo Magazine.

Press Release:

Today Ubisoft announced Red Steel2, exclusively on Wii system from Nintendo. Red Steel remains one of the most successful Wii titles and the only brand created specifically for the launch of the platform. Red Steel 2 is being developed by Ubisoft Paris and will be available for the 2009 holiday season.

Red Steel 2 returns with an artistic style and flair created just for Wii. Set in a desert-bound, high-tech metropolis, Red Steel 2 is a revolution in the action-fighting genre, taking full advantage of the capabilities of the Wii MotionPlus accessory. Your movements are faithfully replicated on-screen, putting the emphasis on swinging, shooting and fun! With the ability of the Wii MotionPlus to sense the strength of a swing, you will literally be able to make an impact on your adversaries through power and precision.

"Red Steel was a unique opportunity for Ubisoft to work in tandem with Nintendo to create a title exclusively for the launch of the Wii console," said John Parkes, EMEA marketing director at Ubisoft. "Red Steel 2 is another milestone for the company as it is the first Ubisoft title with full Wii MotionPlus integration."

Just as Red Steel broke ground as the only third-party brand created for the launch of the Wii, Red Steel 2 will be the must-have game of Holiday 2009 for those who wish to stretch their own capacities and fully experience a game that was built from the ground up to take advantage of the Wii MotionPlus.

 

[Queasy]

GoNintendo got one of the magazines apparently and are dishing on the details.

- some aspect of leveling up your character
- gun and sword combos
- ?RS2 is tightly focused on intensely physical first person sword fighting, with gunplay a secondary option?
- hold Z to lock onto enemy
- hold down C and swing to block, vertical and horizontal blocks
- switch lock-on at any time
- screen prompts you if you?re being attacked from behind. Press A to quick-turn in this situation
- many enemies wear bulletproof armor
- not open world
- not a linear game, multiple paths to take
- several hub-worlds
- side quests
- collectibles
- return to old areas with new powers and abilities
-?non-combat use of MotionPlus wont be limited to opening doors?
- boss fights
- production began last summer
- Ubisoft discussing the lack of multiplayer: ?We would love to create a multiplayer engine, but not right now. It?s single player because we want to really focus on the core mechanic and as much as we all want to kill each other with swords, it?s not going to happen this time.
- Ubisoft on releasing a multiplayer mode through DLC: ?That would be cool. The world has changed, and we can do that sort of thing. I certainly think that would be cool. I?d buy it. But we need to be careful bringing out something that people think should be in the main game.?

I don't know how multiplayer DLC would work ont he Wii anyways. Even with the the expanded memory card storage available. The read times would be too slow I would think.

 

[Slick5150]

Cool. If you can fix some of the glaring flaws of the first game, you could definitely have something very cool there.

 

[Dumac]

The first game was horrible. I doubt the second will even improve to any level of decency.

 

[R Nilla]

The trailer is interesting. It looks as if it controls like everyone thought/hoped the first one would. But we've been fooled before...

 

[BD2003]

Looks cool. I really hope they deliver on the swordplay.