Ninja Gaiden Sigma PS3 Review

Before I review this, lets talk about the history of Ninja Gaiden series.

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History of Ninja Gaiden Series

In 1988, Tecmo made the game called Ninja Gaiden was made for Coin-up Arcade System. It's a beat em ups side scroller game just before NES version came 1 year later. The NES version turn out to be a hack n slash platformer game which comes with cinematic scenes, and different gameplay style. It turn out to be one of the best hack n slash game on NES, even it's difficult to complete it, due to higher difficulty which makes the gameplay even more challenging. It praised for a storyplot, and the characters such as Ryu Hayabusa is one of the badass ninjas in the series. The sequel called Ninja Gaiden 2: The Dark Sword of Chaos came released in 1990, and so with Ninja Gaiden 3: The Anicent Ship of Doom came released in 1991. In between 1996 and 2003, Tecmo also made a fighting games series called Dead or Alive which features Ryu Hayabusa as a fighting character roster, along with other characters like Kasumi, Ayane and Hayate. In 2004, Tecmo and Team Ninja made a 3D hack n slash game called Ninja Gaiden for Xbox which is completely different from NES series. It became well received from critics, calling it best hack n slash adventures games on Xbox exclusive only. 4 years later, the sequel called Ninja Gaiden 2 came out for X360 which also have positive reviews by critics. Tecmo and Team Ninja also offers a PS3 and PSVita port which is called Ninja Gaiden Sigma 1 and 2 as a improved and updated version of original xbox and X360 which also have great overall reviews. In 2012, Ninja Gaiden 3 came out for PS3 and X360 turned out to be worst sequels on the series, due to poor reviews criticise the game is too shallow and being too streamlined. The Wii U ports came 8 or 10 month later which received lot better than the PS3 and X360 counterpart, due to Wii U have solved the lot of problems with gameplay and graphics. It is rumored that Tecmo will announce the new project called Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z which is reboot to Ninja Gaiden series with different stories and gameplay mechanics.   

So thats the history of the Ninja Gaiden Series and lets review the game for now.


Ninja Gaiden Sigma PS3 Review

Oh yes, it is a hack n slash game for PS3 as a updated version of a original Xbox version. This game came with extra 3 chapters which involves the character Rachel is become a playable in the game. It also improves a graphics engine which runs HD with better details, and runs up to 60 fps. The story starts off with Ryu Hayabusa visiting to clan leader Murai just before Ayane delivers the news to Ryu that his village been attacked by Doku who has killed the Hayabusa's shrine maiden Kureha and has taken the Dark Dragon Blade.
Ryu Hayabusa set his mission to fight off the Doku and the members to avenge Kureha's death and bring the stolen blade back where it came from. The gameplay is pretty good with character movements which Ryu can perform wall jump, and wall running which is pretty cool. The attack system is also cool as well with combo moves and fighting performance. The weapons are really damn awesome such as Dragon sword, Kitetsu, Dabilahro, Lunar staff, Vigoorian Flail, and of course my favourite weapons in the game is Dragon's Claw and Tiger's Fang. It also can shoot the projectile weapons such as Shuriken, Bow and Arrow, and smoke bombs which is handful to use. You can perform ninpo attack as a power ups attack which is great way to use, when the bad guys is too strong to kill. You can able to purchase the items, and upgrading weapons from the shops. You can upgrading health, ninpos and power ups from pause menu, when you got it from treasure box. While the gameplay is good, the difficulty is just how hard the game is?. The levels stages is confusing to find unless you have a map with you to help yourself where you at? and where you supposed to go?. The bad guys keeps respawning lot of times and took you to kill them in 5 mins, but they are quite tough as hell. The boss fights is quite frustraighting to kill as well, so make sure you have enough items to increase your character's health. The graphics is much cleaner with better textures, backgrounds and some good animation which pretty look decent running on HD. The music and sounds are just sounds kick ass. The music is awesome, The sound effects is cool, and the voice acting are sounds ok'ay with English but I say Japanese is sounds lot better with English subtitles which are pretty good with character voices. The special features comes with mission mode, survival mode, characters costumes and online rankings.



Advantages

You can play as Rachel on 3 chapters.

Solid gameplay.

Intresting storyplot.

Decent Graphics.

Unlockables stuff.


Disadvantages

Higher difficulties.

Confusing levels.



Final Verdict

Here is my final verdict.


Gameplay 7.7/10 - Good controls makes cool attack system with combos and great character's movements.

Graphics 7.5/10 - Good graphics with better textures, backgrounds, and animation look decent with HD performance for PS3.

Music and Sounds 7.5/10 - Kick ass music, great sound effects and good voice acting.

Special Features 8/10 - This game has mission mode, survival mode, characters costume and online ranking.


Overall 7.7/10 - Ninja Gaiden Sigma is a solid hack n slash game regarding with better updates from original xbox version. This game is recommended for pro gamers to buy it who owned PS3. If you already have a game on Xbox, then you have to stick it with original game for Xbox. If you're the casual gamer out there, then why not give a try renting it, whatever you like it or not.

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