IGN reviews NG3 - 3 for 3.0

Got this from the OXM review.. interesting.. still bargin bin.

EDIT: wait a minute... are those PS3 buttons? :lol:

[QUOTE="finalfantasy94"]

[QUOTE="Slashkice"]

Have you looked into the game? It sounds like you're expecting a Ninja Gaiden game like the previous two, but that's not what this game delivers.

Cherokee_Jack

From what I got from the review the only thing making it different from other NG games is lower dif and lack of weapons. Everyting els seems like NG.

The combat system seems to have been simplified too.

in what way?

I don't think anyone was expecting this to be all that good but damn..... didn't see that coming.AcidSoldner

+1

MY GOD THE BOSSES SUCK.

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]

[QUOTE="finalfantasy94"]

From what I got from the review the only thing making it different from other NG games is lower dif and lack of weapons. Everyting els seems like NG.

finalfantasy94

The combat system seems to have been simplified too.

in what way?

NG3 will hit the $20 bargain bin in 2 months tops. Quote me on that.

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[QUOTE="PatchMaster"]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry

NeonNinja

This is Ninja Gaiden!!! One of my fav series ever!

Uh... you should have cried in 2008 then, bro.

Ninja Gaiden died when Team Ninja died.

Team Ninja died when Tomonobu Itagaki left.

team ninja died when team ninja left, Itagaki wasn't the only one who left Tecmo

Yikes !! :?

NG3 is no match for...

:P

So is this an actual legitimate review from IGN or one of those "we don't like the direction so we will punish it extra hard"? because they have a lot of those as well.

[QUOTE="nintendoboy16"]Looks like the last Team Ninja games that scored well are going to be Metroid: Other M (the most controversial Metroid to date) and DOA: Dimensions if DOA5 blows it next.charizard1605

[QUOTE="FrozenLiquid"][QUOTE="Elann2008"] Divine? That's such high praise. I wouldn't go that far.getyeryayasout

What's wrong with the Sigma games?

Well, you know, comparatively. More to the point, it's the third game in a big franchise.

Cherokee_Jack

When IGN starts giving Assassins Creed, Mass Effect or Halo less than a 9.0 I would be impressed.

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]

Well, you know, comparatively. More to the point, it's the third game in a big franchise.

JLF1MarkII

When IGN starts giving Assassins Creed, Mass Effect or Halo less than a 9.0 I would be impressed.

don't forget uncharted

Well for me, having only one weapon substracts 5 points from this game by default, so the game should score around 8, IF it had multiple weapons !

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]

[QUOTE="finalfantasy94"]

From what I got from the review the only thing making it different from other NG games is lower dif and lack of weapons. Everyting els seems like NG.

finalfantasy94

The combat system seems to have been simplified too.

in what way?

There's only one weapon :?

If that alone doesn't scream simplified I don't know what does.

Graphics
Ryu looks fine, the women look like RealDolls, and everything else looks like low-res sewage.

IGN

lol

[QUOTE="finalfantasy94"]

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]

The combat system seems to have been simplified too.

Vaasman

in what way?

There's only one weapon :?

If that alone doesn't scream simplified I don't know what does.

Well, too be honest there were no weapon mixing or integration to start with ..... some content has been taken away, that would be better to describe it.

Anyone still saying Team Ninja is fine without Itagaki?

Vaasman

While NG3 seems to be a massive blow in quality compared to other Ninja Gaidens, DoA: Dimensions was actually very good.

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]

Well, you know, comparatively. More to the point, it's the third game in a big franchise.

JLF1MarkII

When IGN starts giving Assassins Creed, Mass Effect or Halo less than a 9.0 I would be impressed.

Ninja Gaiden 3 is relatively small? No. Even as the least-anticipated game of the series, it's still big.

I wouldn't be impressed if they gave it a 5, but a 3 is usually reserved for shovelware.

That's such a shame because NGB was an amazing game, then NG2 came out and was disappointing, and now it seems the franchise has turned to complete garbage.

Ninja Gaiden 3 is relatively small? No. Even as the least-anticipated game of the series, it's still big.

I wouldn't be impressed if they gave it a 5, but a 3 is usually reserved for shovelware.

Cherokee_Jack

This is not a sign that reviews are starting to stick it to the big AAA games if they don't deliver. Mass Effect 3 still got a 9.5 there which really baffles me as it is the worst in the franchise.

That's such a shame because NGB was an amazing game, then NG2 came out and was disappointing, and now it seems the franchise has turned to complete garbage.

Bigboi500

Itagaki mentioned that he "ran out of time" when making Ninja Gaiden 2.

The publisher forced him to release the game earlier then Itagaki wanted it to be released...that may have been a contributing factor to his departure.

Holy crap thats bad news. Their staple series was just thrown in a blender.
Wonder if theyll even bother with a 4th game....

I'm still playing Ninja Gaiden on my Xbox... Have never touched NG2 and I'm not surprised with NG3's score.. I'm sad at how low this series has fallen.

I have a very hard time believing it's that bad.

This game would have been in better hands if the reviwer had never played an NG before.

damn

This feels like Rare after the Stamper brothers (founders of Rare, executive producers of all Rare's games and creative driving force of Rare) left the company in 2007.

It's unlikely that Team Ninja will ever recover from their loss of Itagaki and other key development staff members.

R.I.P Ninja Gaiden

I never liked you, but this is just terribad what's happening to your series. :(

Seems the reviewer wasa bit harsh. A 4 out of 10 for graphics but it looks like low res sewage? I'm sure it's still a bad game though.

This feels like Rare after the Stamper brothers (founders of Rare, executive producers of all Rare's games and creative driving force of Rare) left the company in 2007.

It's unlikely that Team Ninja will ever recover from their loss of Itagaki and other key development staff members.

peterw007

The fact is, they would likely kill to have Rare's this gen record; 1 AAA and 5 AA's :shock: and so would 95 % of all the devs. :P

That's what happen when you make Ninja Gaiden, a series notoriously known to be brutal, easy. Having a crappy story doesn't help either. LMAO

I honestly agree witht the people in here who say that bomb these games trying to get hits, if gamespot gives NG3 a 5 or something then i will take back what i said but if they give it a pretty high score as well as other sites then IGN will lose its credibility to me.

People are surpirsed this happened?

[QUOTE="peterw007"]

This feels like Rare after the Stamper brothers (founders of Rare, executive producers of all Rare's games and creative driving force of Rare) left the company in 2007.

It's unlikely that Team Ninja will ever recover from their loss of Itagaki and other key development staff members.

SecretPolice

The fact is, they would likely kill to have Rare's this gen record; 1 AAA and 5 AA's :shock: and so would 95 % of all the devs. :P

The Stamper brothers were still there throughout some of this generation.

After they left...Rare started working on Kinect Sports and Kinect Sports: Season 2.

That's a pretty big fall from grace.

CVG: 8.0 - It's less hardcore than previous games, making solo play enjoyable, but the online mode is a misstep. Still, while it's not as accomplished as Bayonetta, it's the best Gaiden yet.

IGN: 3.0 - Ninja Gaiden 3 is a gash on the face of the franchise and one of the worst games the action genre has yet suffered. It has no consideration for its fans' wants or what a new audience may have enjoyed. It's a nightmare that's as easy as it is uninteresting, and it abandons what used to work for awful new ideas that don't work together. Under no circumstance should you ever waste your time on this self-indulgent and abysmal wreck.

OXM UK: 8 - Ninja Gaiden serves up some Hollywood setpieces with a rock-solid combat system. Forgive the hyperactive cameraman and choose the right difficulty, because the wrong one will ruin your game

OXM US: 8.0 - Given the rare and tumultuous circumstances that led to such turnover at Team Ninja, it's fair to wonder what Itagaki's Ninja Gaiden 3 would've been like. Still, this version of Ninja Gaiden 3 - the one created by Yosuke Hayashi and his crew - is what we get, and it deserves praise for being a great way an Xbox action fan can spend $60. It may not live up to the series' impossibly high standards, but it's still a gem in its own right.

Metro: 8/10 - An impressively courageous reboot that channels the hard-edged heart of the series while discarding its more antagonistic baggage.

VideoGamer: 5/10 - You can probably wring out a decent afternoon with Ninja Gaiden 3 providing you're not expecting it to be as good as its predecessors. There are the origins of a fast, exciting new combat system buried underneath all the mess, and the gorgeous animations and zippy takedowns provide an immediate buzz. Yet its problems vastly outweigh its positives, and it's hard to come away feeling anything other than disappointed. This was supposed to be a bold new beginning for the series, but ultimately Ninja Gaiden 3 feels like a false start.

yeah, i'm done with IGN, the game got a 5 at VideoGamer (a site i never heard of) but the other reviews are pretty high up there and i don't understand how a game gets a 3 but 8's from multiple sites. They did this same BS with Silent Hill Down Pour, the give games either a reallly bad score or a really high score. I'm interested in what gamespot gives it but for now, ign really is questionable to me.

[QUOTE="SecretPolice"]

[QUOTE="peterw007"]

This feels like Rare after the Stamper brothers (founders of Rare, executive producers of all Rare's games and creative driving force of Rare) left the company in 2007.

It's unlikely that Team Ninja will ever recover from their loss of Itagaki and other key development staff members.

peterw007

The fact is, they would likely kill to have Rare's this gen record; 1 AAA and 5 AA's :shock: and so would 95 % of all the devs. :P

The Stamper brothers were still there throughout some of this generation.

After they left...Rare started working on Kinect Sports and Kinect Sports: Season 2.

That's a pretty big fall from grace.

Rare has been busy as a bee the last 2 years working on the next gen Kameo, Conker & Banjo. :shock: :P

This game is getting anywhere from a 6 to an 8 from GS.

And why the frig would they even try to focus on a story!? Yahtzee summed it best in his NG2 review ''You want a story? Demons over there, kill they arse!''... Thats the whole point of Ninja Gaiden's ''story''; You're not supposed to be a mopey, regretful, woe-is-me tormented anti hero. Ryu is a friggen Super Ninja, his narrative is there to inject as many high-octane-demon-ninja-apocalypses that we can handle into us...

Dammit...