This game was originally going to be released for the Gamecube, until Ubisoft found out that they would be allowed to make it for the Wii. The problem with this change was that Ubisoft didn't get the Wiimote fast enough, which meant that they had to rush the game, so the sword and zoom features were more or less "degraded from set quality".

Storyline

Scott Monroe, the main character of the game, is engaged to Miyu Sato, daughter of Isao Sato. Scott is going to get the consent from Sato(The father), leader of the Sato clan(The leader of the Sato clan/gang in New York and all over Japan) to marry his daughter, but things happen where Sato is mortally wounded and wants you to carry on his legacy. Your goal is to stop the Tokai(Rival gang of sorts) from taking over what used to be the Sato clan's and save Miyu before they kill her.
Rating: 7/10

Gameplay

The game is actually very interesting, it was one of the first shooters which wasn't a port on the Wii. You get to fight people with your sword and there are quite a few guns to play around with. There is a problem though, the aiming in this game is quite hard and the controller doesn't always respond when doing sword battles, but I'll talk about that in "Controls".
Rating: 8/10

Mini-games

There are mini-games which involve a target practice, where you shoot your targets with a gun that is handed to you, and if you can shoot at least 80% of the targets, you get the gun for keeps. There is also sword training which allows you to learn new, almost impossible to perform skills, by training, which also gives you Respect points so you can whore the points all you want.
Rating: 5/10

Appeal

The appeal to this game was that it was one of the first games for the Wii and that there was sword fighting. I mean really, what games to you know of that allow sword fighting in the first person? People "OMGICUMMED" their pants because they could kill people with swords.
But other than that, the game pretty much is really not that appealing.
Rating: 5/10

Controls

Gun/Normal Controls
A = Zoom, Push Wiimote in and out for farther or shorter(Zooming in quickly activates time stop as well if you have learned it)
B = Shoot
D-Pad Right = Reload
D-Pad Left = Switch guns
D-Pad Down = Throw Grenade(If available)/Zoom out with sniper
D-Pad Up = Zoom in with sniper
C = Jump
Z = Crouch/Get up
Wave Nunchuk = Open doors/Interact
Move Wiimote = Look around, aim, twist gun around

Sword
Wave Nunchuk = block with secondary sword/initiate attack if using skill
Wave Wiimote = Attack with sword/do sword skill combos
Z = Used for Sword skills
C = Strafe

Like I said before, the zooming and sword attacks are really bad.
When you zoom in you need to push your arm farther to the TV, which means it usually wears your arm down or makes it hurt, it also is hard to aim zooming in because you need to keep zoomed in but your arm shakes when you do it destroying your aiming. It would be a lot easier with the Nunchuks, or if it didn't take so much length of pushing in order to zoom in. Then there's also the problem of the time-stop starting if you go too fast(Which the game seems extra sensitive to).

Sword battles are hard, because even though it mimics the movement of your hand, I found that when I tried slashing up, it always slashed right and when I tried down, it went left. The skills are the hardest part because of all the strange slices you need to do in order to execute the skill, not to mention the Nunchuk doesn't respond when you try executing half the skills.
Rating: 6.5/10

Overall

This game is a great game, and if you can get past the random sword-battles and zooming annoyances, you will like this game. You have the length of the game(I've played over 24 hours game time and I'm still 3/4ths complete), the many guns, the great storyline, and the overall greatness of the graphics for a Wii game(Nothing like Super Mario Galaxy, but these are like expert quality Gamecube graphics).