Ninja Gaiden
Ninja Gaiden is an action-adventure hack and slash video game developed by Team Ninja for the Xbox video game console. The game follows the fictional story of Ryu Hayabusa, a master ninja, in his quest to…
Ninja Gaiden is an adventure developed by Team NINJA, released 2 March 2004 on Xbox.
What Ninja Gaiden is
Ninja Gaiden is an adventure game developed by Team NINJA and released in 2004. It was published by Tecmo. It is available on Xbox only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Ninja Gaiden is a 2004 action game developed by Team Ninja and published by Tecmo for the Xbox. A reboot of the Ninja Gaiden franchise, players control Ryu Hayabusa, a master ninja, in his quest to recover a stolen sword and avenge the slaughter of his clan. It is set in the same world as Team Ninja's Dead or Alive fighting games.
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 is the 22nd of 51 entries we hold in the Ninja Gaiden series. It arrived 8 years after Ninja Gaiden. The next entry was Ninja Gaiden: Hurricane Pack I in 2004. Its critic score of 93 is 18 points above the series average of 75. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Ninja Gaiden holds a critic score of 93 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 23 points above the year average. Players rate it 87, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
Ninja Gaiden launched on 2 March 2004, within three weeks of Far Cry, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Katamari Damacy. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Far Cry, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition, Unreal Tournament 2004, Katamari Damacy.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Ninja Gaiden 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.
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