Red Steel was touted very much before the Wii's launch. I have to say this is one of the worst games I have ever played.

User Rating: 1.7 | Red Steel WII
By HK-47-M4 | Review Date:
Ubisoft invested heavily in the Wii during it's launch and launched an astounding SEVEN launch titles, with five being exclusive. Unfotunately they were all horrible save one, and unfortunately this wasn't it. This title was touted as being the only one built from the ground up FPS available for Wii. During a part in Zelda, I got confused and started taking a break. So I decided to rent another game while taking a week long break. I looked online and saw that this game got bad reviews, but some of my friends had played it at their friend's houses and said it was awesome, so I took a gamble that didn't pay off. Though at least I only rented it.

The story is awful and then it gets even worse with the gameplay, sound, and graphics.

For gameplay: If this is your first time playing a FPS for Wii then there will be a bit of a learning curve. But it sounds simple enough, point at the bad guy and shoot, right? WRONG! Not only are the controls unresponsive but if you finally do get it pointed where you want, it will zoom over to the right side making it hard to aim. Then the sword fights are just stupid, you would just shoot a guy who has a sword not fight him with another sword. The sword fights are even MORE unresponsive than the guns. There is convienently no other people armed with guns when your fighting a swordsman. The only good thing about gameplay is they let you use the analog stick for moving.

The graphics are horrible on this game! Their blurry and are worse than a First Generation PS2 game. In fact I see no reason why they couldn't be possible on the Nintendo 64. This is one of the most ugly looking titles on Wii, if not THE worst.

The sound is substandard and the voice acting is atrocious. To make things even worse: The music stinks. This game is definately not worth your money, not even a rental. I feel sorry for those who bought this game on launch day thinking it would be awesome since it was so overhyped. There is no online mode and the only other mode other than the terrible campaign is multiplayer which lets you play with up to three friends in a free for all match. The good news about this mode: No sword fights. More good news: If you wans to lose a friend then invite them over to play this game with you.

All in all you WILL hate this game. It was overhyped and a total dissapointment. Bad news: Due to the SERIOUS overhypeness, over one million people bought this game to be dissapointed. Ubisoft thinks this game was a success and have announced a sequel. I on the other hand hope this sequel will mysteriously never appear on store shelves. My advice: Avoid this like the Plague! If FPS is what you want then go wait for Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Trust me it will be worth the wait.

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