The first game was pretty excellent, especially for a launch title. Its now been 3 years of development time *after* the first release. Throw in Motion+, and this *should* be one pretty awesome title.

I'm expecting this to be properly revealed at E3 by Nintendo - its a very important title for this Xmas.

I'm shocked to hear all the positive mentions of RS1. To me this game put FPS's on Wii back by 2 years. Before that nightmare everybody was pumped for the potential of an FPS on WIi, after playing people went back to sticks. It was only after games like Metroid and MoH proved that the Wii could do it that we started getting some decent efforts.

I will never forget buying a Wii with Red Steel after bragging for months to my 360 and PS2 owning friends about how the WIi would change gaming, only to be embarrassed by some of the most broken controls of any game in history. Zooming never worked, aiming was a nightmare- I mean when CoD3 is considered better controlling you know a game is not hot. Had the story or graphics been amazing it might have made things a little better, but in the end I really do blame Red Steel for starting off the idea that the Wii is not a real console, and that the controls are a gimmick.

This game hurt the Wii more than anything Data Designs could ever make, or any other 3rd party. It made the Wii seem like a joke, and it has taken years to wear that off. So sorry if I hold some reservations about a sequel. It could be great, but they have a lot to make up for.

not much to go on. My wife and I still want to play the first one, but thats further down the list than Star Ocean 4..... whatever happened to that LIST!!
rgh I'll have to make a new one I guess. I pretty much got all the games on it by this point. Guitar Hero World Tour was like the last one, besides GriD and Pure, and PGR 4. I'll necro the wishlist thread when I make it.

Guess I was one of the few who enjoyed RS1. I bought a Wii at midnight first day along with RS and Twilight Princess and thought it was a good game at the time, albeit with the glitches and terrible sword play.

Ubisoft release a lot of crap but they also know how to do a game well as Shaun Whytes Wii was exceptional, they have announced a wii port of broken sword this year (my favourite game ever) and I have no doubt RS2 will also be quality.

Looking forward to seeing this one and I may even just buy the magazine (soemthing I never do) on the strength of this feature alone.

The first one was really good with a few flaws. If they can eliminate these flaws then RS2 will be awesome

Red Steel was the first new 3rd party IP and the first 3rd party million seller on Wii. I'm pretty sure Ubisoft is serious about the sequel.

They also have good examples of excellent FPS controls on Wii now, like Metroid 3, Medal of Honour: Heroes 2 and in the future The Conduit, so they don't have to make the mistakes of the first game again.

So yeah, I'm basically expecting a very good game. The graphics of the first one were pretty good and the setting was excellent.

only 10 days left!

I'm skeptical, largely because of Ubisoft's recent philosophy of Wii games.

I may, however, buy it just to spite Epic, who insisted that UE3 couldn't be done on the Wii (and, indeed, tried to use it as a point of marketing). This game proves otherwise. Not that UE3 actually adds anything of meaning or value over its predecessors, mind you, but it's a point of pride all the same: a comeuppance for an insult.

the game was good, but had broken controls that some people were incappable of overlooking(and who can blame them? they really sucked). Personally, I'm thrilled about this announcement, and am sure that the controls will actually work this time around. For the record, I enjoyed the first game

I'm pretty sure Red Steel 2 doesn't utilize the UE3 engine, or do you have proof that it does?