http://www.gamekyo.com/newsen30879_red-steel-2-first-screenshots.html

What do you think? I like the style but didn't see much wrong with the first game visually (for a launch game)

I think this was a bad decision...

But at least Wii fans now have an excuse if the game flops :P

They can't be serious about that filter. The rest of the graphics are decent, though I don't really like the anime-ish approach to the artstyle...

I like it.:)

Looks like XIII... I liked XIII. ^^

Damn, that looks frigging awesome.

I'm a sucker for Cell-Shaded games though. first Borderlands, now this. Cell-Shaded is BACK!

^XIII was great, indeed.

^ ditto ditto XIII - always wanted a sequel, never got it.

I really like it, reminds me of Persona 4.

Interesting. No multiplayer looks promising for me, though this could mean bad for sales.

Don't really get any of their decisions. Almost as if they are afraid to compete with the conduit.

Cell-shaded would undoubtedly mean less sales.

No online/no multiplayer definitely means less sales.

So why make those decisions? Are they only concerned with making the game the developers want which is well received in terms of reviews even though not such a great commercial success (like No More Heroes and Madworld, yes I know No More Heroes is their best selling game and bla bla but it would have sold more with better graphics and Madworld would have sold more if it was in color).

That doesn't strike me as the Ubisoft I know. The cynic in me is that they want the game to be a commercial failure so that they can be justified in saying mature games don't sell on Wii so they will stick to Rayman, Petz and Babby Sittaz.

Of course they could have decided to take a risk the way Nintendo took a risk with the Wii and hope it pays off big time by drawing in both those who would have bought it if it had realistic graphics and just love action games and those who would have had no interest if it had realistic graphics. However, I doubt this is the case. There is no way the graphics will not be a cause of reduced sales. Even if it sells 2 million I am pretty sure it would have sold 4 million with realistic graphics.