number of exclusive games, including Red Steel. This title was essentially a FPS in which the player could toggle between gun action and sword action by employing the Wii remote or nunchuk. This revolutionary gameplay generated high excitement all over the gaming society, and the title was one of the best selling launch games for Nintendo’s console. Producers Ubisoft have finally developed a sequel, and Wii’s Red Steel 2 is due out shortly.

Wii’s Red Steel 2 is transfering the action from the Mafia orientated mob story of the first game and relocating to a desert area, in which you play the shadowy ‘Swordsman’. Seeking vengeance on a range of enemies, you battle your way through numerous locales using the identical play method as in the original.

The controls are fine tuned to a high level with this title. In spite of the high sales of the original, one problem that was regularly cited by critics was that the controls didn’t precisely convey player actions to the screen. By employing the new WiiMotion Plus Wii’s Red Steel 2 hopes to counter this problem extensively.

Additionally, the title takes a fresh visual approach. Instead of the realistic finish of the original, Wii’s Red Steel 2 is completed with a cell shaded design, giving the title an impressively stylised finish. Multiplayer has additionally been removed from this title, as Ubisoft claim they wished to place all their energy into creating the best single player campaign possible.

The first Red Steel was something of a flawed work of art; it had all the promise to be an impressive and revolutionary title but was just defeated by lacklustre controls. If Wii’s Red Steel 2 can rectify this problem, then we could be seeing a truly magnificent title.