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IGN Review

Closing Comments
Red Steel 2 is absolutely an "A product." It's clear that the development team wanted to right the wrongs of the original game and produced an all new design with controls that actually work. There are still some issues, both in game balance as well as wishy-washy motion sensing control, but the awesome style and energetic gameplay are enough to make this one of the top titles on Wii.

IGN Ratings for Red Steel 2 (Wii)
Rating Description
out of 10
8.5 Presentation
The original style and story is something that can't be missed. There are tons of control options to tweak to suit your style.
9.5 Graphics
Awesome visuals, running at 60 frames per second. Some of the best seen on the Wii -- passerbys may confuse it for a 360 or PS3 game.
9.0 Sound
The atmospheric soundtrack is awesome. Voice acting is appropriately cheesy but it's the music that's king here.
8.0 Gameplay
The game runs into some issues of misreading some motions, but for the most part we're looking at one energetic action game.
7.0 Lasting Appeal
It's not super long but it's an appropriate dozen hours from start to finish. Challenge mode extends that.
8.6
Great
OVERALL
(out of 10)

IGN Video Review

 

 

Gametrailers

Score:8.6

 

Nice to see the game get good scores from a couple of the biggest sites, I think it looks great and can't wait to play it.



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I'm pretty surprised that 2 big sites that have been trolled for being biased against Wii (& PS3) games, gave this game relatively high scores...



That's a pretty high score from IGN.

We know that no Wii games ever get a 9.0 so this is like a 9.6 from them.



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Such a shame that it seems like Ubisoft is already giving up on the title. Drastically slashing sales forecasts so far in advance really doesn't show much faith in the game delivering, and it looks like the early word is that the game is pretty damn good! I wish I had the $ to get it. Maybe in a couple weeks time...



Bah!

There's also Joystiq's review, which was surprisingly positive after three separate previews that were all negative.

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/23/review-red-steel-2/



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good news



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i would of brought this game anyway if it was 6/10 lol




Game looks great, good review even though ign over did it on the lasting appeal.



Being in 3rd place never felt so good

amp316 said:
That's a pretty high score from IGN.

We know that no Wii games ever get a 9.0 so this is like a 9.6 from them.

That is exactly what I was thinking. anything 7 and up from them must be a great game!



Great scores so far.



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