Nintendo Power Reveals New Red Steel 2 Artwork

Nobody can say "the wii is full of kiddy games" anymore.
Can't Wait for more info.

Sounds good so far...

@WhoKnew:
...And they couldn't say it after MadWorld, House of the Dead: Overkill, No More Heroes, gosh, and so many more.

The wii is full of kiddy games. I said it.

Where are the pcitures then? I hope you don't expect me to actually go and buy the magazine.

Hopefully, with the addition of Motionplus, this will be a lot better than the original Red Steel. But really, it shouldn't be too hard to trump the original.

Nobody can say "the wii is full of kiddy games" anymore.

Madworld and HotD: Overkill does a far better job of convincing people otherwise than this game does...

Video games need more cowboy protagonists. Can't top Flint though.

The Wii is totally full of kiddy games, and the small handful of excellent M-rated titles isn't convincing me otherwise. If Red Steel 2 doesn't use the motionplus, it seems like a pretty useless sequel.

@lockelocke

my sentiments exactly

Sorry, I was distracted by the New Zelda.

Oh... hope it uses MotionPlus. Seriously....

Crap, I was hoping the cover story would have been Muramasa: The Demon Blade when Nintendo Power said it would be covering "one of the year's biggest action games on the Wii". Instead we get Red Steel 2. Hopefully Wii motion plus will be enough to fix the god-awful controls! I want this game to be good but I still cringe whenever I hear the name Red Steel!

Hope this will turn out better than the first outing. Looking forward to it.

Love the art.

@Adam: Awesome new avatar! Flint FTW!

Thanks. Just finished playing through Mother 3 my second time recently, and the cowboy art for this game made me think of Flint.

One of my friends would be disapointed if this does go WAY west than East like the first one. Though, why should I care he even doesn't have a Wii, but he would of bought RS1 anyway if he did.

The first RS was kinda bland and felt a bit rushed, but I'm interested to see how this progresses.

The guy on the cover reminds me of Justice from AFRO SAMURAI. I really liked Red Steel when it wasn't doing swords (so 90% of the time I liked it.) I think this could be really good since they have had plenty of time to improve the first game.

They better improve it a LOT.

Hm... Cowboys... Swords... Will there be a guest appearance by the Oneechanbara characters?

doesnt look like a cowboy at all to me.. well not a traditional cowboy that is

cell shaded OH NO YOU DIDNT UBISOFT TELL MII YOU DIDN'T

why cell shaded i said all along knowing ubisoft thell do something stupid like make it cell shaded AND GUESS WHAT THEY DID

going cell shaded screams of design cop out to me ubi couldnt think anything up so went oh well lets do a cell shaded game

You know, I really liked the original red steel! There I said it! :]

At any rate, I am excited to see what they change in red steel 2 (motionplus?!?), because the controls certainly could be improved!

cell-shading doesn't really bother me, its actually a good way to take of advantage of the Wii's less than spectacular visuals. its mediocre sequels to already mediocre games that bother me; lets hope ubisoft can dig Red Steel out of the grave its in.

Since it's Ubisoft, I'm expecting nothing short of "average". I wonder how popular this one will be, though?

I'm playing Red Steel right now for the first time and I'm having a blast! The game isn't perfect, but it's good fun nontheless. I'm thinking the use of the WiiMotionPlus will make the sequel really, really great.

@wiiboy101

Cell shaded? I must have missed something but where exactly are the screenshots that show that this game is cell shaded???

its confirmed as cell shaded according to the released information so far "APPARENTLY ITS CELL SHADED" im ok with it if it means a great use of the tech like say wind waker but if its generic cell shading like xiii fps on ps2 gc xbox pc or jet grind radio IM GOING TO BE WELL PIIISSED OFF

metroid prime 2 mixed metroid prime art with cell shading and it worked well if its cleaver use of cell shading dreat but if its cel shaded for quicj buck reasons witch is what i expect from ubi ill scream

concept sems great but cell shading scares mii

hopfully im proven wring and it looks stella 60 FRAMES PER SECOND CONFIRMED

I love how you say Jet Set Radio has generic cel-shading. Honestly, that's one of the greatest comments we've ever had here; I just wish I'd seen it sooner!