Red Steel 2 Could Work “Fantastically” with PlayStation Arc
Red Steel is currently an exclusive series to Nintendo’s Wii console. The first title was universally panned by critics, however, Red Steel 2 is shaping up quite nicely. With the hardcore gamers that Red Steel 2 is aimed at staying far away from the Wii, along with Wii third-party software being plagued with poor sales, there definitely is a chance of Red Steel 2 from not performing well on Nintendo’s motion-control based console. However, with the upcoming release of PlayStation Arc, those sales could change fast.
Red Steel 2 creative director Jason Vandenberghe has expressed his own opinions on the PlayStation Arc, and it’s association with Red Steel 2.
“I think it could work fantastically with the Sony wand. With this kind of game you need a thumbstick, that’s the only real constraint. For walking around at least, I haven’t seen a solution.”
Vandenberghe also revealed that the game wouldn’t work well with Microsoft’s competing motion camera Project Natal.
“Microsoft may come forward and show me something I haven’t seen before, which makes me understand how you can play a first-person action game like this that requires this intense finesse and accuracy in your motion, and not have a controller in your hand of some kind. But I think we need to have a thumbstick. I think this is probably a more natural fit for the Sony side of things right now, but I don’t think Microsoft is showing all of its cards right now either.”
Would you like the Red Steel series to appear on PS3?
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5 Responses to “Red Steel 2 Could Work “Fantastically” with PlayStation Arc”
No. Unless it’s done in the style of Red Steel 1 and not Red steel 2: Kiddie land. I still can’t believe Ubisoft took an adult game like Red Steel and made it just like every other game on the Wii, i’m put completly off Red Steel 2.
Ubisoft annoy me sometimes, they could make some extremely good titles if they didn’t put things in their game becuase everyone else does it. Their good enough to come up with their own ideas but they make the same game as every other wii title and they put a multiplayer into Assassin’s creed 3.
eh sure, I hope it is a good game actually, SONY needs fully fledged out games for it’s ‘Arc’
So I’m having trouble depicting for what systems this game is coming out for. Is it multiplatform? Is it for the PS3 only? Is it for the PS3 and Wii only? I mean they just said it couldn’t work for the Natal, so I don’t know. but whatever I’m rooting for this game to be good, PS3 could use it
I don’t know anything about Red Steel so I have no idea if I want it on the PS3 or not. But if they say it’s for hardcore gamers and uses the new motion controller then that sounds like exactly what I wanted. I agree with the guy about Microsoft’s Project Natal though, it just doesn’t seem very intuitive to use a motion control device with games that doesn’t include holding something in your hands. How realistic is the experience going to be if your character in game is holding a gun or some other device but you’re waving your arms around empty??
I want to see what the arc and software can do first then ill make my decision about this!
I hope they move red steele to the PS3, I enjoyed the first one on Wii and was one of maybe 4 games on Wii I ever enjoyed. I think itd be a great move for this to come to PS3. When Arc comes out I hope to god they make a new OKAMI! okami was an amazing game.