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| From: Tecmo/Team Ninja
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $25.99
You Save: $14.00 (35%)
New (59) Used (26) from $25.75
Avg. Customer Rating:  76 reviews
Sales Rank: 855
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: FZA001
Model: 882224552059
UPC: 882224552059
EAN: 0882224552059
ASIN: B000ZK696O
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Good game July 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ninja Gaiden 2 is the sequel to Ninja Gaiden Black. The game plays like the first one which is a good thing. The only reason I give this game a 4 star rating rather than a 5 star is because of the camera angle. If you played the first game you know what to expect. The one thing I have to mention is that this game isn't as challening as the first one.
It's still hard but not like the first one. Once you reach the dragon statues to save your game, your health goes back up and in the first one you only had to rely on using the Grains of Spiritual Life or Herbs of Spiritual life to bring your health back up. This is a good thing for the second game though because some bosses are tough to beat and it would be really hard throughout the game if you just had health packs to rely on. No more throwing the controller to the TV :-) not that I did it but sometimes I felt like doing it because the bosses were just challenging and with low health it's what made it much more harder. Overall you will like this game if you liked the first one.
 Awesome Game July 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is incredibly good, I have been playing it since I got it and don't think I'll put it down any time soon. The images are incredibly good and all the different moves you can perform with each weapon give the game a great interaction.
 My first run with the 'new' Ryu July 3, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought this game for the gift card and how I heard NG Black was so great. First, let me say this game focuses more on survival than stylishly beating up on enemies. You'll get ambushed many times by numerous enemies, sometimes spamming projectiles to no end.
I feel kind of bad for using items, but I suppose this game encourages it, because your score is not affected. Still, it makes me feel like an amateur. The gameplay is as deep as you want it to be. You can use one weapon and spam the same combo everytime, or you can do many different combos with many different weapons.
This game is glitchy so beware. I've had to restart twice due to game freezes, and sometimes the camera gets skippy. Oh yeah, the camera.. The bane of everyone's existence. It's usually too close and not high enough, so you can't see very well. And I really hate it when stuff is exploding all around you and you can't see anything. Also, sometimes I get a wall or door between me and Ryu, so I can't see a thing. Right trigger readjusts the camera but it doesn't always help.
This feels like an unfinished product and is frustrating at times so I'll give it two stars. Probably deserves three, but I am kind of annoyed at the moment. I know many would like to disagree with my rating, but I'm not all that happy with my purchase. I guess they feel like the gore and combos make up for its shortcomings. Not me, I'd trade in the delimbing fests for a more polished game.
Expensive Thrills and Cheap Tricks July 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
"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.
Great but not like the first!!! July 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This Ninja Gaiden is awesome. All the elements that make it a true Ninja Gaiden are present. Flawless controls, the impossibility that we've all come to know, are all there. I must say that the first next gen installment of the series is far better and harder. Don't get me wrong this one is great but the previous one was a rock solid game versus this one where it has its strong points and soft spots.
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