Marie-Sol Beaudry, producer of Red Steel, has started a developer blog on IGN. For her first entry, she discusses how the Wii controller is being utilized for the sword and gun fighting first person shooter. She states, “…everything we’re doing in the game is directly effected by the controller… everything from level design, overall game design, movement [to] storyline.”

On the development of the game: “shooting was…straight forward, point-and-shoot…the sword play…proved to be a true challenge.” From the feedback that Ubisoft received at E3, this seems clear. Still, the developers seem to have taken the responses to heart and are tweaking the controls. Sword fighting should see an improvement with “more diversity in movements and a couple of special moves…” Beaudry is coy on this point, and gamers who want to find out more will have to wait for a future installment.