Yeah, that may be, but this is coming from a developer with no core track record. All they've ever done is licensed games (like Dora the Explorer). Let's be real here, how many people really know the company High Voltage Software outside of the Wii crowd? That's right, no one. They can't just go out and hype a game that's a year away like 3D Realms (back when they were the devs of DN:F), Polyphony Digital, and Remedy can. All 3 companies having many hit games. 3D Realms having the entire Duke Nukem franchise, Polyphony having the entire GT franchise, and Remedy having the first and second Max Payne games. You should expect quality from them, ya know? Keep in mind, the only reason those games were being shown off for so long was simply because at one point they were all cancelled or on the verge of being cancelled. 

People are also misconstruing this layoff as well. That layoff was just left over people from the High Voltage team that had already worked on games and were no longer needed. Most of those guys worked on Gladiator AD, and that was all they were working on. After that game was done and out the way, they had nothing else to attend to. There was no point to continue paying them for doing nothing.

Jeez, I wrote a lot.

If they worked on Gladiator AD they deserved to be made redundant. That game was awful

In all seriousness, I see your point. They no longer have the funds so rely on the "core" Wii crowd (like us) to buy the game and advertise it, the first one wasn't great, so this didn't happen.

It's the same thing which happened to Red Steel as well...

You'd like to know this. Sega is funding the game now. The first game was being funded in-house by High Voltage Software. That's no longer the case. They have a major marketing plan for this game this time around, and it begins next month. That's right, a big marketing push for a game that's 3 months away! So now, High Voltage doesn't have to solely depend on us to hype the game anymore. There's going to be plenty of things dished out by Sega to create hype.   

So that same marketing push you see with Sonic games, will be the same marketing push you see with this. Except it's going to be geared more towards a mature audience, as you seen in the trailer.

Great to hear that a Wii game is finally going to get marketed properly. Conduit 2 is starting to look pretty good to me now after seeing the latest screenshots. The engine has vastly improved since the last game, the lighting and bump mapping is a great deal better. Add to that bosses, mini-bosses, more varied environments, better looking enemies, branching paths, splitscreen and better security as well as the possibility of the game being patchable after it's been released then we could have something excellent on the way. Lovely jubbly :D

From what I recall they have Hunter: The Reckoning on their core track record.

Well it's no longer a "possibility." It's  more of a "happening-right-now." Patch support and DLC support are both in Conduit 2 as we speak. 

I finally beat the conduitt the other day! This is looking good, glad they have split screen. This will most likely be my next wii game(and i thought i wouldn't be buying anymore). Will it support wii motion plus?

Yes, but only for better controller tracking. If you point off screen, the controller will still be able to know where you're position is, instead of just centering your aim back to the middle of the screen or continuously spinning in a circle.

There are no melee weapons in Conduit 2 as far as my knowledge goes, they could possibly add one in the future, but I doubt it. 

Excellent, last I heard High Voltage were just in discussions with Nintendo about it. Great news that it's now been confirmed. :oD

Yay! That sorta soothes my worries about this game not getting the audience it deserves :D

Thanks and all, but do you have a link I can follow?