Red Steel

Red Steel is a Video game of subjective shooting developed by the Parisian studio of Ubisoft, which the European version left on Wii the December 8th 2006.

Scenario

The Asian boyfriend of the hero of the play presents it to her father at the time of a lunch in a restaurant of Los Angeles. But during the meal, the girl is made kidnap and his/her father almost killed by Yakuza S. the hero discovers whereas his/her father-in-law is the chief of a clan yakuza. He thus recovers the katana-Giri, which makes of him the heir to the clan and joined Tokyo, in the search of his lost love.

The play begins in Los Angeles, but primarily takes seat in the badly-famed districts of Tokyo.

Philosophy of the play

Common thing not very in the video games, Red Steel sets up a real philosophy around the topic to kill or to wound . The play encourages the player to wound the enemies, rather than to kill them; on the one hand because to wound an enemy more quickly filled the gauge of the freeze shot , on the other hand because these same enemies will be able to become your allies later. Moreover, the honor precedes in the play: if your adversary fights with a saber, the player owes rengainer his firearm, and to leave his katana for a combat saber. When the player beats his adversary with the saber, it decides to complete it or to leave him the safe life, which brings back points of respect in this last case.

Characters

Scott Monroe : Hero of the play.
Miyu : It is promised in marriage of the hero.
Isao Sato : He is the father of Miyu.
Otori : Sensei of the hero and old yakuza.
Harry To tan : Friend of Sato (it is your first contact in Japan).
Tokay : “The large malicious one”, it has an army of Yakuzas.
Mama San : Mistress of Tokay, it directs geishas.
Mother Reiko : ???
Kenzo : Ex-to employ with Sato, handicapped person, it holds a lieutenant like of Yakuzas.
Tetsuo : Chief of a company of plays of “real” combat. (in the adventure an ally will be later).

Gameplay

The play entirely benefits from Wiimote and nunchuk. Thus, the player aims with the lever, it can reload its weapon or open a door by shaking the nunchuk, and hold its lever like a saber to take part in combat of katanas. The player will be able to use several types of weapons, namely firearms or knives. A gauge, called freeze shot fills gradually, more or less quickly in function if the player keep silent or wounds the adversaries. Once the gauge is filled, the player can slow down time (x-ray mode), when it is in a difficult situation for example. The player can then aim at the enemies. Colors appear, expressing the degree of wound inflicted:

the red indicates an unquestionable death
the yellow indicates a wound
the green indicates that the enemy will be just disarmed

The player can also decide to leave the safe life to the enemies.

Weapons

Not-exhaustive list of the weapons available:

; Knives

* the Katana - Giri, which is useful for the attack;

* the Katana

* the knife of fishmonger (kind of small saber)

* the Bokken (saber out of wooden of drive)

* the Tantō (But being more surely a Wakizashi), which is useful for the parade;

; Firearms

* a M16;

* a P99;

* a Gauge 45;

* a Uzi;

* a Rifle AE (sniper);

* a MP7;

* a Standard 12;

* a SCAR

* a Standard 89

* a MP 412

; Explosive

* Of the grenades.

Artificial intelligence

The enemies could draw up barricades to protect, work out strategies, to make ambushes.

Multijoueurs mode

The multijoueurs mode makes it possible to play four at the same time. Three modes of play are proposed:

DeathMatch (Combat with dead): Every man for himself, that which eliminates the most adversaries gained. It is possible to choose a limit of time or score.
Killer (only with 4 players): Every man for himself, the four players receive their objective which must remain secret by the loudspeaker of Wiimote. The first to fill its objective gains points.
DeathMatch in team: similar to DeathMatch but the players are distributed in two teams.

Four charts are available: Dojo, Restaurant, Plays and Docks.

Development team

Producing of Red Steel: Marie-Ground Beaudry;
Project manager: Damien Moret;
Director artistic: Stephan Bachelet;
Scenario writer: Jerome Colette;
Responsible for animations: Wilfreed Trottet ;
Responsible for the development: François Mahieu;
Responsible for the scenes kinematics: Romain Rimokh;
Responsible for the sound design: Gregoire Spillman;
Responsible for marketing: Damien Moret;
Responsible for the design of the levels: David Legrand.

To note

the play refers to some films, like Kill Bill for its very stereotyped sides. The developers even read books about the Yakuza S ( Tokyo Underground for example) so that the play is most realistic possible.

Ubisoft declared that the development cost of Red Steel rose to 10 million euros.

Red Steel was one of the plays used to have the capacities of Wii to the public at the time of the Nintendo conference for E3 2006.

a version of Red Steel was sent every week of the development to Shigeru Miyamoto which, in good terms with Ubisoft, delivered its opinion to them and of the ideas.

External bond

Official site

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