Red Steel

Clearly designed with the hardcore gamer in mind. It's slick, addictive and as close to "cool" as a game can get. [Christmas 2006, p.68]

It’s a game like no other, but it takes a great deal of patience before you’re able to truly enjoy it.

Once the final credits roll and only the memories of your experiences remain, underneath the oddly coloured skin of different environments, controls, and concepts, Red Steel is very much a first person shooter like all those other 'normal' first person shooters.

It blazes a lot of new trails but doesn’t make much headway, and the traditional shooter elements aren’t done very well. The multiplayer really needs more depth, but hopefully the inevitable sequel will do it better, because I can’t imagine playing deathmatch very long with the controls as they are.

The enemies almost seem to know you’re at a disadvantage, control-wise. They’re far from the brightest opponents, often standing around seemingly bored when they have clear shots at you. This does keep things from becoming frustrating, but in this era of challenging AI in games like "FarCry" and "Gears of War," Red Steel can sometimes feel like a throwback.

What can’t be overlooked though is the poor dialogue and voice acting, which ranges from stereotypical to absurd.

A time machine that only goes backwards to the age when a glut of no-name shooters clogged the shelves.

People hated it because it had Wii controls and complained about the graphics, remember it was released on a Wii hardware. It was a great game. Gunplay is pure quality, story felt somehow unique, and level design was fantastic. The sword fight was also fun. Don't listen to haters for this game.

A rather generic FPS in a similar vein to Goldeneye 007 set in the world of the Yakuza. The sword combat sections feel a little tacked on, but it's well engineered and enjoyable to play.

Como juego de los primeros que sacaron en Wii está decente. El gameplay de disparos es genérico pero entretiene bastante más de la cuenta gracias al innovador sensor de movimiento y la gran variedad de armas de fuego de las que disponemos. Otra cosa son los duelos con katanas, los duelos son 1v1 y el control de las katanas es LAMENTABLE, porque es imposible realizar un combo largo de forma decente. De hecho cuando fuí al dojo para aprender uno de estos me tiré toda una mañana en hacer bien uno porque no había forma de que me pillara los movimientos verticales llegando a unos momentos de frustración TERRIBLES. Gráficamente normal, no destaca en nada. Pero la ambientación está muy cuidada y te sientes en todo momento en una historia de mafias japonesas. Hablando de la historia, he de reconocer que no está nada mal, a pesar de que el protagonista principal es mudo y no aporta nada, pero bueno en muchos títulos los protagonistas principales son mudos y son auténticos juegazos, todo es verdad XD. En fín, dentro del catálogo de Wii juego es correcto y entretiene. En Wii hay cosas bastante mejores pero no está nada mal para empezar con la consola.

I feel this game was like a Golden Eye 007 for 64 attempt while adding rails, the game is ok but it put me to sleep quick. I love the original 007 but this game is ridiculous. The controls are crap and i disliked the game all together. Deserves a 4 for effort.

An interesting idea. Just done poorly. The controls are horrid and the Wii sensor seems to have quiet a bit of trouble picking up the sword movements. I would not play this again simply out of sheer frustration, and I certainly wouldn't recommend it.