Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #285 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Microsoft
• Released on: 2008-06-06
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Original language: English

Manufacturer's Description

Ninja Gaiden 2 makes its long-awaited debut on Xbox 360 as the blockbuster action-packed sequel to Ninja Gaiden. Ninja Gaiden 2 features a new and improved game engine, developed from the ground up exclusively for Microsoft and Xbox 360 by Team Ninja and legendary game developer Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of the famed "Dead or Alive" franchise.

In Ninja Gaiden 2, gamers must guide Ryu Hayabusa on a mission to avenge his clan and prevent the destruction of the human race. Armed with an assortment of ninja weaponry, players must help Ryu skillfully maneuver through a world fraught with peril and danger. Ninja Gaiden 2 will feature an all-new gameplay engine, a new auto-health regeneration system, levels, adventures, enemies and thrilling combat with an extensive assortment of ninja weaponry, representing a true evolution of the highly popular franchise.

Customer Reviews

bad boy
Forget the wasters talking down on this game, they proberly think halo 3 is a bad game too, this game is wicked like the original.

Slice that turkey
So brilliant is the combat in Ninja Gaiden 2 is that your end up forgiving its faults, of which there are many. The meat and potatoes of the gameplay, the slashing and dodging, is largely unchanged from the previous outings. It is a lot more bloody and intense but slightly easier due to the fact Ryu now recovers health when he is not fighting. The enemies are brilliantly conceived and there attacks are so quick that you'll be looking at the Game Over screen if you sneeze in mid play. Ninja Gaiden demands your full attention; to process you need to concentrate.
The game has faults though especially in the level design. Visually the game has trouble telling the player where Ryu can or cannot go. Some doors are in fact walls even though they are identical and the designers use invisible walls liberally. The puzzles are nonsense and I could spend a paragraph alone about how depressingly wrong that self destructing boss really was. The camera doesn't quite work but it's never hindered my progress. The plot is laughable gibberish, inferior to the Snes version but you can pretty much take it or leave it.
There are some great moments and most of them are in combat. The gothic castle I really enjoyed and at its core Ninja Gaiden 2 is really quite brilliant. It's simply a shame that the game fumbles most of the things that would have enhanced the experience.

in some ways shockingly bad for an aaa title
Okay, I liked the first game and finished it on Warrior. This second game I finished on hard but hated (with a vengeance) an awful lot of it - its incredibly sloppy in places for an otherwise polished game.
Theres two types of game like this: ones where the bosses are rock hard and have little strategy, and then the others like God of war 2 which have actual tactics and challenge.
Ninja Gaiden falls into the category of just being rather difficult and more often than not simply because the camera gets stuck pointing the wrong way, and because bosses (in particular a giant armadillo) sometimes fill up the whole screen with effects making it difficult to actually fight with any precision (so they then make you fight two at once- which comes down to luck more than skill in beating them, and then they blow up so if you dont know what to do next you die instantly and have to fight them all over again. Wow!!! what brilliant design).
Sadly the whole game is riddled with instances where its grossly unfair instead of being challenging, and I cant rate it higher with these problems because a really classy game (like God of war) challenges without being so cheap!!!!
On a final note this kind of game succeeds through tricky bosses and combat - ninja gaiden has the combat but every boss is rubbish with a few where you can just wade in and slap them to death in seconds. I much prefer God of War with its quick time events and think that features like that are the way forward for third person combat games, if you dont go down that route then at least make decent bosses - even Conan was better than this!