8 Bad Video Games With Great Combat

8. Red Steel

It’s no wonder that people were excited for Red Steel when it was announced: a first person shooter using the Wiimote to aim realistically at the screen, occasionally slowing down to have sword fights by swinging your arms around.

Sadly the reality didn’t live up to the dream and when Red Steel launched it was met with mixed reviews, owing to inconsistent visuals, poor controls and technical issues. In the end it did sell well, but the general consensus among the gaming population is that Red Steel 1 is a bad game.

Bit of a surprise then when you boot this game up, sit through the intro sequence and then immediately start having a blast with the game’s combat - accurately blowing Yakuza away like you’re Kazama Kiryu with an air zooka.

Every gun feels powerful and kicks like a mule, the bad guys run and duck for cover and even chase you down when you try to take cover yourself. The sound effects give every gunshot and explosion a sense of weight, and the shotgun might be the most satisfying in any video game after Doom 2’s super shotty, sending gangsters flying with every pull of the trigger and even tearing up the scenery around them.

It more than makes up for the lacklustre katana fights which can be won just by wildly swinging the controller until you give yourself repetitive strain injury.