Ninja Gaiden II (Xbox 360)
The Hayabusa Village is burning again. Which means no one changed the batteries in their smoke detectors. Damn ninja fools.
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What's Hot: Quite possibly the greatest third-person action game ever made.
What's Not: Stubborn camera; Narrative = total crap; Uneven difficulty.
Scott Jones
Status: Coffee makes me feel 4-percent sexier.
Instead of words or lines of dialogue, the game's characters communicate through sword slices and shuriken. Instead of a traditional story, the game's fight sequences, all the minutiae, all the little nuanced moments during battle, how you/Ryu handle a series of increasingly difficult challenges -- they tell the only story that matters in
Ninja Gaiden II. And when they do, let me tell you, it's almost Shakespeare.
This review is based on a retail copy of the game provided by the publisher.
