Ninja Gaiden II
Ninja Gaiden II is an action-adventure video game developed by Team Ninja and published by Microsoft Corporation. It is the sequel to the 2004 title Ninja Gaiden and was released worldwide for the Xbox 360 in…
Ninja Gaiden II is an adventure developed by Team NINJA, released 3 June 2008 on Xbox 360.
What Ninja Gaiden II is
Ninja Gaiden II is an adventure game developed by Team NINJA and released in 2008. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on Xbox 360 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
One year after Ninja Gaiden Black, master blacksmith Muramasa is setting up shop in Tokyo, Japan. A CIA agent named Sonia enters the place and asks for Ryu Hayabusa's whereabouts, until members of the Black Spider Ninja Clan attack the shop and kidnap her. Enter the Dragon Ninja Ryu, who fails to stop Sonia's kidnapping and makes haste around the Tokyo skyscrapers and rescues the agent, who informs him of an attack on the Hayabusa Village by the Black Spider Ninjas, who wish to steal the Demon Statue they possess and protect. Ryu returns to his home and finds his father, Joe Hayabusa dueling with Genshin, leader of the Black Spider Ninja Clan. Unfortunately, the Demon Statue is taken away…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Ninja Gaiden series
Ninja Gaiden II is the 28th of 51 entries we hold in the Ninja Gaiden series. The next entry was Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 in 2009. Its critic score of 75 is almost exactly the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Ninja Gaiden at 93.
How it was received
Ninja Gaiden II holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 10 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 53 votes.
What it launched against
Ninja Gaiden II launched on 3 June 2008, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, GRID (2008), Battlefield: Bad Company and LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, GRID (2008), Battlefield: Bad Company, LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Ninja Gaiden II yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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