Best action game so far. (My review is exact).
Good Points:
NG2 is meant for its gameplay. It's silky smooth attacks and enemy slashing is simply amazing. This game has the best action gameplay in any video game there is. Seeing those body parts flying making you wanna use those ultimate attacks over and over. Lots of blood and gore that makes this game's gameplay perfect.
For the graphics, the graphics look really good. They are not next gen graphics (like gears of war in its time, or NG1 in its time), but they are great. Models are superbly made, the art is fantastic. The environment looks good, but not that great. But still, all that matters is the graphics of the models which make the characters look in the game realistic. But they could have added some dynamic lights like in most games now, and the textures could have been normal mapped, which some are not. The graphics could have needed a bit more work, but it doesn't matter. One more thing for the blood splatter on the wall, sometimes you might notice that the blood in hanging in the air. This is because the blood is a texture surfaced on the plane. One way to fix this is to have a projection blood spallter on the plane.
The animation is awesome. The way Ryu fights hordes of enemies and all of his attacks are superbly generated and developed.
Weapons are extremely unbelievable. It is not like NG1 where most of the time I used the Dragon Sword. Here I rarely used it. I used all weapons and every weapon is great to use. There isn't a single weapon that makes you say: "oh this is slow, or this weapon's damage is low". All weapons are perfectly balanced.
This is NOT a button mash game. I mean the attacks only consists of X and Y buttons which makes it easy to use multiple attacks, but still not a button mash game. YOU WILL DIE IF YOU BUTTON MASH.
I have finished 6 missions so far and it took me almost 6 hours to complete them. I am playing every level and searching for all items (found 6 crystal skulls so far. I wonder if there are 13 in the game, like the new Indiana Jones movie which I didn't see). So what I mean is that the game is kinda long and not short.
Before I go to the Bad Points, I didn't say anything about the storyline because frankly, this is NG2. I don't care what the storyline is. It is just some bad guys wanna rule the world, and Ryu is the only one who can stop them. I just wanna hack and slash enemies. I mean it is not like some gigantic robot with a T-Rex voice makes you believe that the US government exists, but in reality it is just an imagination living in the White House and censoring the internet. I mean hello???? (refering to MGS2).
Bad Points:
Camera might be frustrating. Actually, it is not frustrating to me. I can handle the camera in NG2. I mean come on, have u seen a stable camera in an extremely fast action game? I mean fast (don't think of assassin's creed or Prince of Persia or God of War). They are not fast. You cannot hit a 30 hit combo in 3 seconds like NG2. One thing that should have been corrected about the camera is that when an object comes between you (Ryu) and the camera, they should have blended that object. I mean this have been done in many games so far. When an object comes between Ryu and the camera, I cannot see Ryu anymore.
The game is HARD. First, there is the Path of Acolyte (easy) and the Path of the Warrior (Normal). I went to the Path of the Warrior. I repeat, the game is hard. You are going to die lots of times. And I mean lots. This doesn't bother me too, because I love this difficulty since there is a big challenge to the game unlike many games to far (I mean even a person who never touched a console can finish any game now). But this is for serious gamers. If you think you cannot handle this, do not play the game. I don't like when people play the game and say it is impossible to beat. I mean I have a friend who beat NG Black in Master Ninja difficulty earning Master Ninja rank in all levels.
One thing that really bugs me in the game is that sometimes there is a frame rate drop. I mean Team Ninja are known for their 60 frames per second, but sometimes it gets slow and you are fighting those enemies in a dropped frame rate. That thing really bothers me a lot. This is more frustrating than any camera and difficulty.
Well enough for my review now. For my final result, I would give this game a 9.0. Although I would have liked to see this game earn a 9.5, but still, it has some few problems, and it kinda costs its score. So 9.0 is the best score for this game.