Why Red Steel 2 bombed

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Kasz216 on 09 April 2010

I can't help but feel this thread was a brushfire of sorts, to prevent 30 "Why did Red Steel 2 bomb threads from coming up.

It seems to have worked. We should do this for every semi major game for every console.

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puffy on 10 April 2010

I haven't seen any advertising

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Games4Fun on 10 April 2010

Severance said:
i played just a tad bit of this game and so far its disappointing... from what Nintendo fans were saying i expected a lot more.

Its pretty fun to me. although I must ask why in the world are you playign that over the other games you got today? It is the least fun out of the ones you got

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Bamboleo on 10 April 2010

I'll get killed for this, but the game gets boring.

the mechanics are neat and pretty much nailed motion control, but doing it for 10 hours just for the sake of it with no good story to back it up I'm not pumped.

I'm not saying I am not enjoying the game, but it could be better Story wise...

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Severance on 10 April 2010

Games4Fun said:

Severance said:
i played just a tad bit of this game and so far its disappointing... from what Nintendo fans were saying i expected a lot more.

Its pretty fun to me. although I must ask why in the world are you playign that over the other games you got today? It is the least fun out of the ones you got

i did play the others, i just wanted to try to see whats the hype about.

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DrPollit0 on 10 April 2010

Many of your points are wrong.

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heedstone on 10 April 2010

It bombed because nobody liked the original one. They should of changed the name and just started a new IP.

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mortono on 10 April 2010

I rented it. It's not fun. Just a lot of hype if you ask me. I couldn't believe the reviews were so high.

Main problem for me: 20-30 minutes of "training" in the beginning lulled me to sleep. Bad voice acting and cinematics annoyingly appear at every turn. Finally I got to sword-fighting, which was fun... BUT... Wii Sports Resort's sword-fighting felt better and finer-tuned.

So then, after you kill two guys, back to training and bad cinematics! Ugh! This game is 70% bad cinematics and 30% Motionplus sword-swinging.

The whole western setting is incredibly dull as well. Western settings have NEVER sold games. It's just an easy cliche that never works. I can almost imagine the developers foaming at the mouth saying "Let's do a western! It'll be SO COOL!"

In terms of Motion Plus sword-fighting I think most of us are waiting for Zelda. Red Steel is a dead franchise on the Wii. I imagine they'll try to take it to the PS3 (only to have it fail in just the same way).