Ninja Blade
It was July 7th, 2011. While investigating reports of unlawful weapons trafficking, peacekeeping forces encountered an unclassified carnivorous species occupying a small village in Northern Africa. These rabid…
Ninja Blade is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by FromSoftware, released 29 January 2009 on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Ninja Blade is
Ninja Blade is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by FromSoftware and released in 2009. It is available on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
It was July 7th, 2011. While investigating reports of unlawful weapons trafficking, peacekeeping forces encountered an unclassified carnivorous species occupying a small village in Northern Africa. These rabid creatures were easily provoked and resistant to conventional attack.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Ninja Blade holds a critic score of 58 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 9 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium® 4 3,2 GHz or similar Athlon® 64, 1 GB RAM and 3D Video card with 256 MB VRAM, DirectX® 9.0c compatible (GeForce 8600GTS/Radeon HD2600XT or higher). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB.
What it launched against
Ninja Blade launched on 29 January 2009, within three weeks of Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned and Flower. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, Flower.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Ninja Blade yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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