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Ninja Gaiden 2 (Xbox 360) | 
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| From: Microsoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: £44.99
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 236
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: action-games
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: Video Game
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: FZA-00056
UPC: 882224626705
EAN: 0882224450034
ASIN: B0012PX9HS
Release Date: June 6, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: perfect condition, quick dispatch
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 Expensive Thrills and Cheap Tricks July 2, 2008
Mr. H. C. Orr (Littlehampton, England)
"Ninja Gaiden 2" probably will not be remembered very fondly. A game blighted by terrible camera, cheap difficulty-raising tricks, and a game engine generally hailing from the previous generation of consoles, NG2 nevertheless has enough of the magic dust of its XBOX predecessor to make it a fully worthwhile purchase.
Everything about "Ninja Gaiden 2" is intimidating. From the sturm und drang Tecmo video intro sequence to the final boss fight, the game retains the fearsome seriousness and difficulty of 2004's "Ninja Gaiden". That game was possibly the greatest action adventure of the 3D era. To attain success, "Ninja Gaiden 2" has to follow that and add the requisite gloss of current-gen gaming, whilst fixing the original's annoying camera and tweaking the controller-damaging difficulty level. In this regard, NG2 is a failure: the graphics are often bland and barren, the camera sits too close to the player character, and the admittedly lessened difficulty is soured in many places by cheap hikes in difficulty which the player cannot possibly avoid.
However, there is a big "but". The gameplay is as thrilling as NG, as beautifully detailed and rewarding as the rest of the game elements are shoddy and perplexing. While the sequel incorporates close-up Obliteration moves to kill wounded enemies and a regenerating health-bar (a nod to making the game more accessible), it is still fundamentally the same game engine as the original...but more. More blood, more fighting, more all-round violence.
The point is that the wonderfully fluid and responsive controls actually make the gamer feel in control of a master ninja. It makes you feel proud to have accomplished a tough boss fight or to have countered an enemy attack. This element alone makes this charismatic game worth paying serious attention to. And, having played such cutscene-heavy games as Metal Gear Solid 4 recently, NG2's non-stop action shines particularly brightly for me; the game represents a big gold star in favour of action gaming. Perhaps having realised this, Tecmo have gutted out the often tedious and obtuse puzzles from Ninja Gaiden in favour of added enemies.
To be clear, Ninja Gaiden 2 is a deeply flawed videogame. There are plenty of elements to the game which are not really good enough. In keeping with Team NINJA's Mount Fuji logo, the game is either peaks or troughs.. The peaks are fantastic, and the troughs are "fantastic", too. The camera, it must be stressed, is awful, locking up terribly especially in tight corridors and on flights of stairs. Graphically, the game has bland backgrounds, although the detailed character animations make up for this in large part. The story is the usual tosh about armageddon that game developers so love, with demons and devils spewing terrible dialogue -just ignore them. But Ninja Gaiden 2 has the magical charisma of a game which just knows it is special, that can treat you badly because it knows you will come crawling back.
 Madly over-rated and simplistic gameplay June 26, 2008
P. Mallorie (Ingerland)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
From a game that promised so much, to have one combat button, which you press and it does one of many slashing moves at total random, is madness! you should have to choose the move of attack depending on the situation; not repeatedly tap the attack button and watch your character backflip, slash and stab all around the screen out of your control. the storyline is weak also. The game is aestheticly good as the graphics are decent and the character movement is also. It reminds me more of 'super smash brothers' than anything else to be honest.
hard, fast bloody - a must-have! :) June 25, 2008
S. Göhs (Berlin)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
In a nutshell:
I simply love this game.
I just fell in love because it is truly challenging and does not let you pass, just because you got thumbs like the hulk.
so I preordered this game and haven't stopped playing since i recieved it.
i"ve read some reviews that imply that team ninja just wanted to make more money, so they turned down the difficulty to get access to a wider range of gamers.
I must say that I am not that unhappy about this.
I see gaming as a recreation activity and not as my main purpose in life, so I'd rather be seriously challanged than downright frustrated and find myself smashing my controler against the wall...
the graphics are not really state of the art, because team ninja merely recycled their once pretty innovative engine for the x360.
but this is surely made up by the extremely fast gameplay and it brings a somewhat stylised look into the game... I really like that.
once you got yourself into the spirit of the game, there is nothing more rewarding than slaying hordes of enemys with a stylish chain of combos without getting yourself reduced to tiny bits.
bottom line:
a great game, with a few weak spots.
 well.... June 21, 2008
Gavin Robertson (Aberdeen, Scotland, UK)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
this game is not only buggy as hell but the reason my 360 started tripping balls.
aside from obstacles and bosses disapearing at random (involving me having to switch the game on and off to progress) some levels had so much going on that the game began to slow down.
also when i completed the game i had to wait for the credits to end before i received the achievements, however it was at this point the game crashed and my 360 started the 3 red lights.
luckily my x box was within its warranty and microsoft kindly put an end to the three red lights of doom.
i wont lie though this game was a lot of fun and had some excellent moments its just a pity playing it felt like they took the first original x box game and just airbrushed it opposed to taking it into the next generation.
Very Hard June 21, 2008
Lee M. Bridson (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just a warning to the casual gamer who may look at this and think it's worth a gamble for a decent platform slash em up. This game quickly gets very hard in places - the bosses will kill you lots and lots of times.
As you progress through a level and buy first aid power ups - don't use any till you meet a boss as you will probably need them all! Kill a boss, move on , buy power ups, save them for the next big boss, repeat till the end or until you give up when you meet a boss that keeps killing you and you don't have enough life or power ups to progress.
As an alternative I would suggest buying Devil May Cry 4, which is an excellent shoot and slash 'em up instead as that allows you to replay earlier levels gaining more currency to buy power ups etc so if you get stuck you can replay levels to improve your character.
I think Ninja Gaiden 2 is too hard for the average player - respect to those who finish it on hardest level!
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