Red Steel Nintendo Wii commercial (UK)

Red Steel is a first person shooter video game published by Ubisoft for Nintendo's Wii console. It was developed by the Ubisoft Paris studio and was unveiled in the May 2006 issue of Game Informer. It was released on November 19th 2006 in North America, the date of the first Wii launch. A sequel to the game, Red Steel 2, was announced by Ubisoft for release in 2009.

Red Steel was the first third party game on the Wii to have screenshots released. This caused a massive amount of excitement among Nintendo enthusiasts. However, the game was met with a negative response initially at its showing at E3 2006. Many critics complained that the controls were too loose and that the sword fighting portions did not mimic the player's movement with the Wii Remote. Ubisoft later announced that they received the Wii Remote development kits about a month before E3 2006, so they couldn't make the game function in the style that they had originally intended. Ubisoft took this criticism into account, and had announced that the game was being fine tuned. When released, there was notable discontent with the control scheme due to its differences from what was expected. Critical reception to Red Steel since its release has been mixed. There are noticeable differences between American reviews and European reviews, with European reviewers generally giving higher scores. Further criticism regards a cursor glitch, or "rubber-band effect", in which the cursor frequently reappears in the center of the screen, deterring movement and aiming. This can be resolved by muting all active Wii Remotes. Despite generating mixed reviews, Red Steel has sold over one million copies worldwide.

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