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There needs to be a better way to actively remind you of the mob and it's actions when they are out of your FOV for intuitive counters and snaps. This has been the Achilles hills for many twitch/combo based, mob clearing games, I imagine it to be even more crucial in a FPS/S genre.
Isn't the game going to be rated M anyways?, lets see some more on screen cue to acknowledge the carnage you just committed on a 1:1 scale, .
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agreed. the camera feels very limited in a first person capacity like this. at the very least they need to include a strafing option, but it doesn't look like you will be able to since the wiimote is used exclusively for sword controls...
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@That mop mutant from NES: The first Red Steel was rated T here in the states and M in Australia. So I guess it depends on where you live.
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They also discussed how the WM+ also allows them to track better: without it, in order to gauge speed they had to rely on the sensor bar, so if you started swinging your arm from behind the shoulder, that wouldn't register until it crossed the bar. To be honest, it looks like there is a little bit of lag still, but I think that may be because the moves seem to have some kind of dash that can be added into the startup, in which case it'd make sense.
It's a pretty good video, even if you aren't interested in Red Steel 2; it gives some interesting insight on not only what the WM+ allows over the normal WM, but why.
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This video made me less interested in this game.
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I had a feeling they used preset animations as well, especially since they're not touting the 1:1 horn in the ad..
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I'm not opting for lovely rendered bowels dangling, or hoolahooping a liver around the sword but this is an FPS... where the hell is the impact!!!???
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the attacks may be impressively responsive to the motion controls, but video games will have to know where your whole body is (and never mind the concept of weight) before they make defending nearly as realistic.
so its "look at all these cool attacks i can do depending on how i swing the remote!" "awesome, how do you block" "oh, hold b".
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It might be one to get us closer to the holy grail of first person melee combat.
Not a sure buy for me, but I'll keep watching.
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I was thinking more of first person + melee + motion control, really anyway. #redsteel2
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No More Heroes, Red Steel 2 and SSBB and Twilight Princess, which i still haven't played.. (god how that eats at my soul)
Oh and the glorious Muscle March.. but other than that there is no appeasing me with a Wii.. so i'll go to my monthly back and forth with the release calender to once again hold off..
But seriously.. not playing Zelda is hurting.. bad..
10/09/09
I kept buying into the Nintendo Peripheral craze and was buying whatever they threw out there. Soon I had a pile of crap that I used once and then months and months of nothing. Not even turning on the system. The 450 bucks looked better as a down payment on my GSXR, then sitting on a shelf idle.
I think I'm going to wait until a new Wii bundle comes out if I ever do buy it again. Who knows.
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Not really. I think I'm just going to echo a lot of other player sentiments when I say the first game didn't really leave me with a good impression. It's too bad too, had this been possible three years ago we might be looking at a slightly different gaming landscape today. One where the action game would have migrated to the motion control schemes which promised so much. Maybe I'm just bitter, and that's enough for me not to make the jump this crowded season.
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