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Red Steel 2: Hell Comes To Caldera On March 23

Welcome to Caldera, a peaceful little town in the Nevada Territories, at least until a powerful secret hidden in the town’s mines attracted the plot for Red Steel 2.


October 10, 2009

Red Steel 2: Wanna Play

In this latest Red Steel 2 video you’ll get a closer look at how sensitive the game’s controls. Specifically we get to see a player twisting a sword around with the use of the Wii’s Motion Plus.


October 1, 2009
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Red Steel 2 Video Explains How They “Beat The Waggle”

I’ve told you, Totilo’s told you and McWhertor’s told you: you can’t get through Red Steel 2′s swordfighting combat by just flicking your wrist once or twice.


Red Steel 2 Impressions: What 2006 Promised

My second hands-on with Red Steel 2, this time in Tokyo, confirmed to me that Ubisoft’s first-person Wii sequel is the kind of Wii game that, back in 2006, I thought we would be playing more of.


August 25, 2009

Red Steel 2 Hands On: Now With Ninjas!

Ubisoft had a newly playable copy of Red Steel 2 at Gamescom, its cowboy-samurai western now full of ninja and 360-degree Wii MotionPlus-powered sword swingin’. And I nearly had my delicate wrist snapped off playing the thing.


August 15, 2009

Red Steel 2 GamesCom Video

We knew Ubisoft’s Red Steel 2 was going to be playable at GamesCom, and this teaser trailer doesn’t tell us much more than that.


August 8, 2009

Notebook Dump: The Wrong Wii Question, Shopping Mama

There comes a time in the week to reflect on what got into my reporter’s notebook but didn’t turn into Kotaku blog posts. Shall we?


August 7, 2009

What Wii MotionPlus Really Does For Red Steel 2

I recently asked the creative director of Red Steel 2 what the required MotionPlus attachment adds to his Wii game. He asked me if I wanted the marketing answer or the technological answer.


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Brink, WET, Red Steel 2 Added To Growing Gamescom List

With less than two weeks to go before Gamescom kicks off in Cologne, the list of games that will be present and playable continues to grow.


July 28, 2009

On Designing Red Steel 2′s Hero

We’re all taking the news of Red Steel 2‘s delay pretty hard here at Kotaku Towers. Some of us were really looking forward to seeing the Wii MotionPlus put to use outside of sports games and mini-game collections.