number of exclusive games, such as Red Steel. This game was basically a FPS in which the gamer could toggle between gun action and sword action by employing the Wii remote or nunchuk. This innovative gameplay generated high excitement throughout the videogame community, and also the game was one of the highest selling launch games for Nintendo’s console. Developers Ubisoft have finally created a sequel, and Wii’s Red Steel 2 is coming out shortly.

Wii’s Red Steel 2 is transfering the action from the Mafia oriented mob storyline of the first game and relocating to a desert area, in which you play the shadowy ‘Swordsman’. In quest of revenge on a variety of enemies, you fight your way through numerous locales using the same play system as in the original.

The controls have been fine tuned to a great extent with this game. In spite of the high sales of the original, one drawback that was frequently cited by critics was that the controls didn’t precisely transfer gamer movements to the screen. By employing the new WiiMotion Plus Wii’s Red Steel 2 intends to counteract this drawback drastically.

Additionally, the game takes a new visual approach. Instead of the realistic finish of the first, Wii’s Red Steel 2 is completed with a cell shaded look, giving the game an impressively stylised finish. Multiplayer has also been removed from this game, as Ubisoft claim they wished to place all their energy into making the best single player campaign feasible.

The initial Red Steel was really a flawed masterpiece; it had all the promise to be a great and innovative game but was simply defeated by lacklustre controls. If Wii’s Red Steel 2 will rectify this drawback, then we may be seeing a really popular game.