Red Steel 2 - New control info, non-linear gameplay and more

[Gamerace]

- gun and sword combos

How do you swing the wiimote like a sword and aim at the screen simultaneously?

- “RS2 is tightly focused on intensely physical first person sword fighting, with gunplay a secondary option”

So it's a FPS - First Person Slasher? Unless everyone else uses swords too that would imply (IMO) a lot of stealth too otherwise the gun would remain your primary weapon and also, your arms would fall off.

- hold Z to lock onto enemy

At first I thought this was for shooting but it must be for sword-fighting meaning you'll regularly fight multiple opponents with your sword. Something the first RS never did. Would also help sword/gun combos.


- hold down C and swing to block, vertical and horizontal blocks

This I don't get, why wouldn't you just hold the wiimote vertically or really in any direction counter to the oncoming blade to block (like in Tenchu)? Why 'C'?

-”non-combat use of MotionPlus wont be limited to opening doors”

Good, I liked all the waggle controls in RS.

- production began last summer

Only?? Must mean full-blown production since this game was in the designing stages years before, scrapped, moved to Ubi Paris and restarted long before WM+ was announced.