Jason Vandenberghe, creative director för Red Steel 2-teamet hos Ubisoft Paris, har sagt att de inte kommer att utveckla en tredje del i den svärdsvingande actionserien om intresset inte finns hos spelarna.

“Red Steel 2 isn’t really a ‘do-or-die’ situation. What I meant by my comments was that the desire to make another game in the series will depend on whether or not Red Steel 2 is a success. Fact is, that’s always true. If the fans don’t want us to make a sequel, we generally won’t. See, because we know they won’t buy it. Which is sort of the point. So, in that way, this situation isn’t really all that different from any other first or second releases in a franchise.”

”As far as pressure goes, believe me when I tell you that the pressure here at Ubisoft is a light, airy breeze compared to the kinds of pressures I grew accustomed to at other companies I worked for. The pressure was all focused in the same place: the game had to be fun. We knew that, and so it led to us shaping our dev process around iteration, playtest, and gameplay. That’s a good thing.”

Red Steel 2 släpps exklusivt till Nintendo Wii den 26 mars.

Jason Vandenberghe, creative director hos Ubisoft Paris, har sagt till G4TV att studions Nintendo Wii-titel Red Steel 2 kommer att släppas någon gång under februari eller mars 2010.

“You can look for Red Steel 2 somewhere around…Middle end of February, early March, something in there,” sade Vandenberghe. “We don’t have an exact date but we’re shooting for it being done around that timeframe.”

“We got an extension outside of Christmas, which was something the team asked for and we’re really glad that we got it because it means we have the time to do what we’re doing now, which is polish the difficulty ramp across the whole game so that it’s not just cool at the beginning and then no good for the rest of it – and also, work on combining all of our pieces together, making the finish moves and the enemies all work together.”

“So we’re using that time to good effort. So hopefully all will go well with that, and I think it will.”

Enligt GameStop kommer spelet att släppas den 24 februari i USA. Ett riktigt tillkännagivande bör komma framåt jul.

Jason Vanderberghe, creative director hos Ubisoft Paris, har sagt i en intervju att Red Steel 2 inte kommer att lida av oprecisa kontroller. Teamet har, som han uttrycker det, ”beaten the waggle”.

“Wii MotionPlus gives us the ability to measure how hard you’re swinging… As a result of that, we’ve beaten the waggle,” sade Vanderberghe i intervjun.

“You can’t play Red Steel 2 like this,” tillade han, och viftade med handkontrollen i luften.

Red Steel 2 fungerar endast med handkontrolltillägget Wii MotionPlus, ett tillbehör som enligt Vanderberghe var nödvändigt för att teamet skulle kunna realisera sin vision.

“At the heart of the franchise, really the promise of Red Steel, is the potential of sword-fighting with the Wiimote,” sade han. “The Wii MotionPlus really brings that promise to life.”

Red Steel 2 försenades nyligen till första kvartalet 2010.