Finally something (slightly) new in terms of combat, weapons and locations.
 

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Woah, watch this preview's videos instead, they're off screen, but 60fps streams!

That's what I was thinking too, the bug was really obvious, I can very well imagine that was the reason Ubi had it taken down.

New images from some French article.

This is what I've been looking for. Thank you. 
 
Game looks good. Even more gesture-based than I thought it would be. I like that, but there will be reviews that will complain.

"My simple conclusion: Red Steel 2 is crazy, whacked-out adrenalin-fueled fun. If the full game holds up to the sizable section I tried, this will be a must-play for Wii owners who want to play a “real” game."

Indeed. Btw, nevermind that joystiq article bashing the game, it's actually from last year, and for some weird reason posted only today. I guess to have something RS2 related when everyone else does as well. Or maybe to show the difference from the new one they're cooking up (if they are). Well anyway, I'm skeptical about the game's final quality myself but I wouldn't judge level variety from a press demo or make clearly false claims like how "all" enemies are invulnerable to gunfire (videos clearly show otherwise for many enemy types) or can only be hurt from behind (uh no, that's only for the big guys so far) etc.

Eurogamer preview as well. With all the positive impressions, it's good to see not only IGN is hyping this game ;)

This you told me this was a X-Box 360 game I'd believe you.
 
Damn, great visuals. Damn damn damn.

Well there seems to have been made some surprising progress in terms of using the Wii hardware in the last six months, and Red Steel 2 has very, very low-res textures, mostly small areas, few effects and what would seem like a max of 4-5 characters on screen. 
 
Combine that with an art-style-above all approach, a solid lighting engine, lots of development time and a fixed 60fps framerate and you have yourself a good-looking Wii game.

After watching that video, something doesn't seem right about it.  Regardless, I preordered it anyways.

DO want

Showing off everything there is to see and do in this game, so there won't be any surprises left when anyone gets to play the actual game. We call that the "Black&White-Effect".

I just found out that the voice of Payne is... Jason Vandenberghe!    
 
Not that that excuses bad voice work... but it sure makes it a little more enjoyable.
 
Also, there are rumors of people close to the industry that Ubisoft will do no or very little advertising for this game.

So Red Steel 2 has hit the interwebs. 10 days before release. Ouch.