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Tuesday, June 03 2008

Ninja Gaiden 2 Demo Hits Xbox Live  by Craig D at 12:55

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Microsoft have today announced the availability of the Ninja Gaiden II demo on Xbox Live, it should be there right now. Team NINJA's action title is due in stores at the end of the week.

The demo takes place in Chapter 1: Sky City Tokyo, where you’ll have access to an expanded set of weapons (4 primary and 2 projectile weapons + 2 Ninpo powers) and plenty of Black Spider Ninja Clan to dismember. Play through roughly 3/4 of the chapter using the new and better balanced Path of the Acolyte difficulty.

NGII consumer demo features…
- Standard Weapons: Dragon Sword, Scythe, Claws, Staff
- Projectile Weapons: Shuriken, Bow and Arrow
- Ninpo: Wind and Fire
- Weapon level: 3 (this is max weapon level…)
- Difficulty level: Acolyte only
- Expected gameplay: 30 minutes
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Comments
ralinn
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04 June 2008 22:43
Ok, just finished the demo.

As much as I like Ninja Gaiden, this is a major disappointment. For some reason it feels a hell of a lot more button mashy and you're usually pulling cool stuff off by accident and wondering how the hell you did it.

Every game developer out there should look at the game to learn how NOT to make a camera. It's ****ig horrid and should burn in hell.

If you've not played NG before then I recommend it, as it's fun to play, bloody gory and gives you a good sense of power. If you've played the NG before then I have a hard time recommending it as it's really not resolved any of the issues from the original (some even worse), and really doesn't give you a feeling of playing a sequel. It feels more like an add-on which is was I feared.

Ninjas - Check
Gore - Check
Tits - Check
Swords - Check
Fun - Check
Frustration - Check
Stan
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05 June 2008 21:26
I really liked this demo, thats the main thing lacking from Ninja Gaiden sigma on the ps3, the cutting limbs off with a big **** off sword. Just makes you feel like a badass, hell I am betting it gave ralinn a semi.
ralinn
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05 June 2008 23:13
Yeah, the gore and tits gave me a semi. But the camera is bloody awful and completely ruined it for me.

It's definitely a cool game, but when you've played _all_ the versions like I have... there's just no point in getting this. There's just not enough new things or problems sorted.
Stan
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05 June 2008 23:21
I agree the camera in Sigma stopped me playing it, the amount of times I died because the camera was facing the wrong way was insane.

I can see this game being the same, fun to play for a while but ultimately far too annoying to keep you going back.


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