Don't Buy This Game

I'm sorry to say, ladies and gentlemen, that the game I'm talking about is none other than Ubisoft's 'Red Steel' for the Nintendo Wii. Ubisoft has been doing very well this fiscal year with such titles as 'Assassin's Creed', and 'Rainbow Six Vegas'; but as they try their hand at a action/shooter for the Nintendo Wii, they fail. Miserably.

I don't want to start out by bashing this game completely, so I'm just gonna say that it was a very cool idea and I was extremely excited about it when I saw gameplay trailers and commercials. This was a launch title for the console (Which released on November 19, 2006), so one can only assume it was rushed to meet this release date. But we all know that when a game is rushed, it doesn't get done properly.

The first thing I noticed about 'Red Steel' was the fact that it was ridiculously hard to play. You control your character by turning the Wii remote in the direction that you want to go, usually by pointing the crosshair to the edge of the screen. There were two problems with this: 1) sometimes you wanted to move alot faster than the game allowed thus causing your arm on the screen to move around wildly or simply do nothing, no matter how much you shook the comtrols. 2) Turning corners: impossible. Also, you are able to use samurai style sword fighting, but the control scheme for this is even harder to control. lets just put it this way: I died several times in practice mode. Practice mode.

My final word: the story was pretty solid but the graphics were reminiscent of the PSone, which was a little disappointing considering Capcom's 'Resident Evil 4' looked delicious. If you want to play a good first person shooter for Wii, Retro Studios over at Nintendo did it right with 'Metroid Prime 3: Corruption'. If you happen to want this game, for whatever reason, I saw it in Circuit City's clearance bin for $16.96. Enjoy that.

1.5 out of 10 (for the story, cause thats all it has going for it)

Thanks for reading.

-JD