Red Steel is simply poor. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

As it's posted on Trigames.NET:

http://trigames.net/reviews.php?content_id=696&console=0

As it's posted on Gamespot:

http://www.gamespot.com/wii/action/redsteel/player_review.html?id=465546&tag=readerreviews;continue;1

Don't forget to cheer yourself up with Episode 50 of the podcast, in case reading about Red Steel makes you cry.