Back at the end of the summer, our own Coop sat down with Jason Vandenberghe, the Creative Director for Ubisoft's Red Steel 2 to talk about the game. The one thing that came across during the course of that interview is that the development team at Ubi is really excited by the weapons in the game. Like, really excited. Today, a new trailer has been released that shows off some of those weapons in action, and if you'll take a look, you may be able to see what all the excitement has been about.

At the risk of stating the obvious, I have to say that for a Wii game, that's some pretty good looking footage. Although it's clear that nothing on-screen is running at 1080i, it does look like RS2 is going to maximize the graphical capabilities of the system. The action seems to move at a good pace, and there is no appearance of frame rate drop, nor of clipping. Hopefully RS2 lives up to expectations, because otherwise, we may see a rather abrupt end to developers attempting to bring mature-themed games to the family friendly console. With the disappointing retail showings of games like MadWorld, The Conduit, and Dead Space Extraction, companies are becoming more and more leery of releasing these kinds of games for an audience that seems inclined to buy the latest Petz party game. Here's hoping Ubi can pull this one off.