Red Steel (Wii) Review

Today, I'm doing a review on one of the most underrated games on the Wii: Red Steel. The game was released on November 19, 2006: the launch date of the Nintendo Wii. This was also the first shooter on the Wii. I've seen a lot of reviews up for this game and almost all of them give the game negative reviews. GameRankings gave it 65.8% and Metacritic gave it 63%. But, I'm going to do a basic rundown of the game and explain why it's pretty good, or better then other people say it is.

The game has a campaign and and a multiplayer mode. The campaign begins in Los Angeles, California where Scott Monroe, the story's protagonist, is in a hotel with his fiance, Miyu Sato. Miyu is the the daughter of a yakuza kingpin named, Isao Sato. Before Scott can meet his soon to be father-in-law, a rival gang rushes into the hotel and attempts to kill Sato, but only injures him. They then kidnap Miyu and knock Scott out unconscious, in which Miyu thinks he's dead. After you wake up, you meet up with Sato's bodyguard, Ryuichi, where they try to save Sato and escape the building. The two eventually find Sato on the roof of the hotel, badly wounded. They eventually reach the parking lot where Ryuichi turns his back on Scott by kidnapping Sato, along with Miyu. Scott shoots at the fleeing car and manages to save Sato, but Ryuichi is able to escape with Miyu. During the the first few missions in the hotel, Sato teaches Scott the ways of using a katana, an ancient sword. There are many sequences throughout the game where you must use the katana, which is controlled by the Wii remote and the broken sword which is controlled by the nunchuk which blocks enemy attacks. After leaving the building with Sato, you meet up with Tony Tanaka, a guy who has many connections with yakuza gangs. The rest of the game is basically Sato dying and giving Scott his katana in which he then travels to Tokyo to rescue Miyu. Scott goes through a lot of enemies and gangs, where you use both guns and katanas to defeat enemies. In the end, you save Miyu.


Now, let's move onto multiplayer. Now, this game doesn't have online because the Wii wasn't that developed yet. But, you can player up to four player split screen. I love the multiplayer mode because it feels a lot like Goldeneye 007 for N64. There's about 3-4 maps which, the only one I can remember the name of is, Docks. There are about 10 guns to choose from such as Assault Rifle, Uzi, M4 shotgun, 3 different kinds of pistols and more. You can also choose what you want your character to look like. There are a bunch of different models to choose from, but the only bad thing about this is two people can't have the same model. 


So, that's been my review for this very underrated game and I just have to say, if you see this game anywhere, and you have a Wii and you like shooters, I would definitely recommend checking it out, plus it retails for anywhere between $5-$20.


Campaign: 7.5/10
Multiplayer: 9.5/10
Gameplay: 8/10
Controls: 7/10
Graphics: 7/10
Overall: 8/10