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Ninja Gaiden - Xbox's Post-KOTOR Killer App?

Posted by simoniker on from the hash-and-slack-action dept.

Thanks to IGN Xbox for their hands-on feature on Tecmo's Ninja Gaiden, claiming that Star Wars:Knights Of The Old Republic "...has some competition for game of the year" on Xbox. According to the effusive preview, "While the original Devil May Cry made it fun to juggle enemies with your gun and then slice them in half with your sword, Ninja Gaiden one-ups Capcom's classic with a combat system that is more free-flowing and naturalistic than any 3D action game I can remember." The game, a sequel to the classic NES title, is "...tentatively set to ship Holiday 2003."

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  1. Re:Naturalistic? by muirhead · · Score: 2, Informative
    Natural: Present in or produced by nature.
    Naturalistic: Imitating or producing the effect or appearance of nature.

    AFAIK neither word accurately describles the ability, to run up walls, unless your a spider.

    Summary of the article:
    The game is good, but you can't buy it now, and you probably can't buy it this year either.

  2. Does that reviewer need a little ego boost? by mithras+the+prophet · · Score: 3, Funny
    Those with less imagination might have stood around slowing chopping away at the seemingly endless horde of ninjas coming at them in the first level of Tecmo's demo, but not me. I was running along walls, flinging shurikens, dashing across the floor tagging enemies with 20-hit combos and then unloading a half-dozen shurikens...

    Ummmm, okay. Is this a review or a confidence-builder?

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  3. Re:haha by Mike+Hawk · · Score: 2, Informative

    Who told you the combat in KoToR was "videogame style"? (whatever that means...real time?) KoToR was a d20 game. That means dungeons and dragons. I don't see how you could have been disappointed by that unless you were misled into thinking it was something else. In that case you should really blame the person who lied to you.

    Personally, I think KoToR is the best console RPG in the post-cartridge era. I hate cutscenes; KoToR lets me play the game and have choices that effect the outcome. Heh, I got banned from a whole planet. I don't remember anything that irreversable ever happening in FF. I'm going to play it again, and based on my impressions on another run-through I might upgrade it to my favorite console RPG ever.

  4. Hmmm... by gamgee5273 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I'm not sure if this will go over. Let's be honest: Enter the Matrix was supposed to deliver much the same type of "revolutionary gameplay." All it did was deliver less than 13 hours of mediocre, buggy gameplay.

    I'll wait until the hype has passed and actual, extensive hands-on reviews have been made.