Red Steel 2 - Reception

Reception

Red Steel 2 was met with very positive reviews. It currently holds a score of 80% on Metacritic based on 73 reviews, representing favorable reviews. IGN awarded Red Steel 2 a score of 8.6/10 along with an editor's choice award, praising the "awesome style and energetic gameplay" calling it "one of the top titles on Wii." Official Nintendo Magazine gave Red Steel 2 an 86% score, praising the MotionPlus controls, visuals and audio, but criticised the mission design, referring to it as being "average." Eurogamer gave the game a score of 7/10, praising the "thrilling set pieces" but calling the game's character "flawed, certainly, but entirely honorable with it." 1up.com were considerably less impressed, giving Red Steel 2 a C+, stating that while "occasionally exhilarating" the game was "mostly unremarkable." Gametrailers.com gave Red Steel 2 8.6 out of 10. GamesRadar gave the title 9 out of 10, praising the controls and "the engaging, intuitive combat." GamesRadar also noted that the game was drastically superior to Red Steel, noting that there was "no comparison between the two." Classic Game Room received the game well. Bussler claimed that this was the best motion controlled first person shooter that "I ever played".

Ubisoft originally expected to sell 1 million copies of Red Steel 2, but after poor sales of their game Avatar, they slashed their sales predictions in half. According to Jason VendenBerghe at his keynote speech at the 2010 European game developers conference, Red Steel 2 has sold approximately 270,000 copies worldwide.