Red Steel: first Revolution screens revealed [Update 5]

by Ross Miller on Apr 7th 2006 4:25PM

El Moco has sent us some very convincing (e.g. not fake) magazine scans from the latest Game Informer. In it, Ubisoft shows off some screens from its title Red Steel, set for release on the Revolution. That's right, folks: it looks like we have some official Revolution screens.

As you can see (you can view all 3 scans by clicking on the image or the "read" link below), it is a first-person shooter that utilizes the RevMote just as we have all predicted it would.

Unfortunately, we cannot make out the text from any of the other two pictures. These images, however, look a lot better than we expected the initial Revolution titles to look (then again, many developers should be comfortable with the Revolution dev kits, as they share many similarities with the current-generation GameCube dev kits). Hopefully we will get some official screen shots of Red Steel (and indeed, other Revolution titles) very soon.

Update 1: A few of you have sent us word that Game Informer is touting its latest issue online. According to the page (again, we unfortunately do not have a copy of the magazine just yet), the game is from Ubisoft Paris. The page implies that these are actual screenshots, and confirms that more information will be found via Game Informer's online page as of April 20th.

Update 4: Corrected credit given to the Ubisoft Paris for work done by Ubisoft Montreal. Also corrected credit given to the translations (sorry, squiggle).

Update 5: Image, link to scans and transcriptions removed at the request of Game Informer.

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I just crapped myself.

Finally i can tilt my gun in a game like the cool ones do!

Thats the beginning of a true revolution.

I'm way impressed by how good that looks. Makes me wonder how much horsepower they're saving in standard definition to be able to improve poly count, lighting effects, etc. Very cool stuff.

The Gamecube was a hugely underrated console. Just because the game content created for the system wasn't always the most exciting in terms of action and violence, doesn't mean the system itself was crap. Look at Res Evil 4. That game looks a lot better on the cube then on ps2. I feel the revolution will be the same way. People have already begun to denounce it, because of it's lack of graphical and processing power. But the screens above look pretty damn impressive for a system that isn't much more powerful than the original xbox.

Looks cool, nothing groundbreaking as this is what was expected, but the angle of the gun reflecting the positionof the controller is a nice touch, and gives an idea of just how sensitive to movement this controller is.

And it's looking about as I expected. I doubt you'll see many titles looking worse than Xbox games, it was a poor comparison in the first place.

So how is it going to work? Like a Time Crisis? Goldeneye?

I just also crapped myself.

Wow... those screens just blew me away. I can't believe we're finally looking at a Rev game! And, honestly, it's beautiful! This exceeded my expectations. Color me VERY impressed.

The atmosphere reminds me of Stranglehold. The Revolution just became a lot more interesting to me, however I must say those shots look doctored quite a bit.

If those are the graphics of the Revolution, every hater on the planet has to shut up.

What surprising news! Ubisoft Paris is responsible for some very high-calibur games, including some Splinter Cells and Ghost Recons if I'm not mistaken, and a third-party excessively violent sword/gun game could be a killer app for the Revolution launch, something that has never been achieved by a company other than Nintendo itself.

Things are looking up! I can't wait for scans.

So those screens are from the *actual* Rev hardware devkit, and not some Gamecube-based mockup?

Yay I always wanted to hold my guns in game all gangsta (im sry ive always wanted to say that). My life is almost complete

YES!! Wow.. I had heard we would see Revolution games before E3 but I didn't expect it from Game Informer :P If they got this page then what about the other 2 games they said they had a scoop on?!! I WANT MORE!!!

And no I did NOT crap myself *walks away slowly and awkwardly*

If this really works out on how it(the rev controller) suppose to work, then Nintendo could come out on top!

I've gotta admit, that's not too shabby! Now make the price 99$ and we got a deal

Orgasm

I'm a Nintendo fan boy, but that doesn't look like a screen shot- it looks like (possibly hand drawn) conceptual art. The is no HUD and the aiming reticule looks a tad suspicious. Anyone agree?

If it is actual footage, that I really dig the style.

Oh my god I can tilt my gun, in game, let the Revolution begin.........................HAHAHAHHAHAHHA.

HEAD A'SPLODE
HEAD A'SPLODE
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wow, I'm so happy I wasn't the only one to crap himself.....

Yes, those look like pretty good screens from a "low-end" system in "Low-D" and its a FIRST GEN game!

*shart*

One of them starts with "While the Revolution won't be as powerful as the PS3". And by the way, wear some diapers you pigs.

How the fuck does that look hand drawn.

Looks like crap to me and the REV will FLOP

looks good to me, I can't wait.

Those look _really_ photoshopped. Sure, it's hard to tell from the small, dark images, but those are either highly "tweaked" screenshots (rim lighting on the characters and the general "softness") or just pre-vis mockups.

Of course, I could be wrong.

It's okay Master X 24, fanboy jealousy is to be expected. I'm sure your console of choice will copy the revmote sooner or later.

Looks more like a lightgun game than a FPS, but it does look pretty good.

That's how you earnt those -2 stars Master X 24.

And they don't look doctored, but questionably in-game. I still think Revolution's gonna look hella better than Xbox, comparing the specs in the first place was simply ignorant.

I'm not so sure these are in-game screens. Agreeing with the one lone Stiq-er here, they look like concept art to me. It's not as evident in the featured screen, but if you follow the link and check out all three, the others feel hand-drawn.

Even if I'm wrong and these are shots, man doesn't it feel good to be vindicated. Nintendo and its supporters done me right.

i hate fanboys,arguing again, especially that idiot (23.) the screens look great and nintendo,sony and microsoft are all great in their own right. Stop spoiling forums by arguing about game consoles, its silly guys. why not wait , if its a money issue, and get all three when the price is right?

It's okay Master X 24, fanboy jealousy is to be expected. I'm sure your console of choice will copy the revmote in time.

Look at this: http://gameinformer.com/News/Story/200604/N06.0407.1251.24078.htm

Game Informer confirmed a Revolution-centric issue!

Tom B.: Final totally complete Revolution development hardware won't go out until June (coincidentally, the same month final PS3 dev hardware is going out). However, by this point, Ubisoft probably knows what to expect from the final hardware. Nintendo noted that, obviously, developers working on launch titles have first call on dev hardware.

yeah for the specs the rev is pushing I'm really surprised! even though these are just blurry shots of a magazine.

Does the little guy in the corner with the Revmote appear on-screen in the game, too??

No, seriously, those shots are above and beyond what I, or even the gaming public, was expecting for the Rev to do. After seeing the "specs" on IGN I was really dicouraged, but this has fully restored my faith in the power of the Rev.

Crap + pants = very yes

Apparently, an Ubisoft representative has stated that these are "target renders"...not actual in-game screens at the moment, but what the team expects the finished product to look like. I believe Ubisoft did this once before with Splinter Cell, so it makes sense. Unfortunately, I have no credible source, as this information comes off another message board(Revolution Report), but it sounds realistic to me.

From Woolly Shambler's link, it looks liek these are actual in game screenshots of the game and that the GI people actually went and played it. Odd, I wouldn't think Game Informer of all magazines would get such a killer exclusive(Game Informer is the one Gamestop forcefeeds you, right?), but good on them.

I agree this looks more like a rails shooter than a first person shooter because those people are only using one hand. You would think you'd need the nunchuk for any FPS.

To anyone that thinks these are photoshopped, I'm fine with that, to each is own.

But to anyone that needs actual screens, just a month to go till E3.

It has the Nunchuck attacthment, look at the pic up there you can see it in the darkness.

Not one hand, the guy has the analogue stick in his other.

1. despite having less horsepower than the Xbox, I believe that the Gamecube had the best looking games in the last generation. I don't think anything can top Metroid Primes and Resident Evil 4 on the GC.

2. Holding your gun sideways is a surefire way to institute a jam with a badly ejected shell casing getting stuck in the port and preventing the slide from functioning. It's also a really stupid way to aim.

3. BRING BACK HOGAN'S ALLEY

4. I hope even without HD that at least the rev has component video out, seeing as they removed it from the GC.

Oh wait, responding to myself here, I looked more closely and he does have the nunchuk, just off-screen. So this probably is an FPS, though with the picture of a sword on the cover, I'm guessing there's a twist, and not like a lame M. Night Shymalamaman twist.

"I'm not so sure these are in-game screens. "

They may be, but if so they are heavily retouched.

We all know that the Rev will be running at standard resolutions. Well, run your favorite PC game at 640x480, take a screenshot and print it out. See if it looks anything like this.

I used to work at a publisher-who-will-remain-nameless and all publicly released screenshots were retouched prior to approval. Part of the retouching process (in fact, most of it) involved literally hand-drawing every single line in the screenshot so it was smooth. Basically you ended up with a hand-drawn version of the screenshot with in-game textures. That's what this looks like to me.

Not concept art, Ubisoft employee on IGN confirms it:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/MastahCrushed/OMFG.jpg

Anyone else notice the tip of the revmote looks different in these scans? I'm not calling fake at all, but I think it bears mentioning.

Now I need to go change my underwear. Buh-bye.

Finally, a console that will be able to tell when I am pimp slapping the bitches that I am doing it all backhand style!!!

Jeff, bear (bear-ific) in mind that these screenshots are quite small (and scanned), and it's very different to playing an SD signal on a large TV.

Fear at 640x480 looks better than that. Just not so much on a big TV.

Looks like the lil blackness on the end of the controller is fully round now instead of it being cut on the top area.

That's true Jeff, a lot of companies doctor up their own screenshots, but I don't think Ubi-Soft is particularly known for this. Are they?

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