phantom_leo said:

KISS ME YODA ! ! !

IT'S HERE! IT'S HERE ! ! !

  Kiss me Hardy - I am dying!

hamzik said:

Red Steel 2 is not off to a good start. It debuted in 34th place in UK charts. I actually thought that it would have a better first week. Oh well, I guess the bad memories from the first game still hava an impact on the brand. Hopefully this title will benefit from word of mouth as it is one of the best third party offerings around on Wii and really deserves great sales.

 That's sad. I saw an advert on at midnight on channel 5. Not exactly prime time stuff. When RE5 or any other capcom game there was so much advertising I got adverts printed on my rental dvds. 

SteelAttack said:

So I started Elebits tonight. What an amazing showcase of the true potential of motion controls. Some kickass 3D object manipulation there, even more impressive considering it's a 2006 game. Why isn't another game further exploring this already here?

Unfortunately, there isn't seem to be much more than that to this game. I've done 3 or 4 stages so far and each one of them has been "pick up Elebits, move shit around to uncover more, turn appliances on to uncover even more". It's awesome at first, but I'm not going to bother much more with this game if it stays like this.

 That's what I say, Elebits was so many years ago, a launch game with a dodgy frame rate and great, but could be improved controls. And yet no one else has done these sorts of controls since, except Boom Blox touching on it with the grab tool. When you marry physics to motion control you get something very special. I used to say that it was the only game with next generation gameplay because of how you could manipulate the environment. It should be required playing for todays developers. 

As for the game, eventually you get bosses and then leave the house and go on the rampage around the streets. But the frame rate then diiiiiips. Elebits is one of the last games I wanted a sequel too, Endless Ocean, NMH and Red Steel got sequels but this is the one game left that I want to see done justice too. It's a little rough around the edges here and there and the voice acting makes you want to puke. 

phantom_leo said:

Awww... I didn't mean to get you that angry GG... C'mere and let me stroke your buttocks and give you a nice back massage!  

Frak you Leo. 

hamzik said:

Red Steel 2 is not off to a good start. It debuted in 34th place in UK charts. I actually thought that it would have a better first week. 

 It only released on Friday. It's Monday now. So the sales are over 3 days one of which is a Sunday. 

robio said:

For anyone curious at the moment, on Amazon US it's sitting at 45th for the bundled game and 46 for the solo game on the Wii charts. It does not appear on the overall videogame chart.  It does indicate that it is climbing the charts though so that is a good.  

 I think it will hit half of Ubi's target over a year period. 

gamingeek said:

robio said:

For anyone curious at the moment, on Amazon US it's sitting at 45th for the bundled game and 46 for the solo game on the Wii charts. It does not appear on the overall videogame chart.  It does indicate that it is climbing the charts though so that is a good.  

I think it will hit half of Ubi's target over a year period.

Unless they push some heavy marketing behind this soon I got to agree with you. The reviews have been good enough. I wonder if this is just another example of people not buying 3rd party games or just a really bad move in Ubisoft trying to use the Red Steel name after most people ended up feeling fairly disgusted with the original.

robio said:

Unless they push some heavy marketing behind this soon I got to agree with you. The reviews have been good enough. I wonder if this is just another example of people not buying 3rd party games or just a really bad move in Ubisoft trying to use the Red Steel name after most people ended up feeling fairly disgusted with the original.

 Well I'm just not seeing any advertising. The games that sell well are the ones that get advertised or that have a big name brand behind them, COD for instance. Ubisoft advertises Just Dance on prime time TV but not this. 

robio said:

That's a scary thought. When a company breaks even only when hitting 1.5 million copies???  How many games each generation even come close to that number?

 Scarier:

"that's still not enough as an independent studio to break even,"

They didn't break even.