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Ninja Gaiden is one of the best looking Microsoft's Xbox games and one of the best-looking games for any entertainment system ever. Tecmo's Team Ninja has put all its experience in making Ninja Gaiden to forge an incredibly satisfying adventure game with a variety of combat moves and abilities for its main character, Ryu Hayabusa.
Ryu is an acrobat who's capable of reaching difficult places. He is a total badass. So agile that he can run straight up vertical surfaces and can run horizontally along them for a short while. Both techniques are intuitively and automatically performed just by jumping toward a wall from an appropriate angle. While running along a wall, he may even leap toward another wall that's perpendicular to him, thus gaining altitude and momentum to continue his sprint.
Using this cool-looking and important technique, he's able to climb up and out of pits as though there were a spiral staircase there to let him walk right on out of it.
The game sounds outstanding, too. Options for English or Japanese voice-over are available. Sure enough, the game features a fantastic soundtrack too, with unique music for all the different chapters and many of the boss battles.
The key to the dynamic nature of the action is that Ryu is so mobile. When in doubt, you can always make him leap away from a combat situation, or you can make him leap straight into one. Plus, Ryu's defenses are surprisingly good, so even when he's being mobbed by several enemies, you'll often be able to block all of their attacks just by pressing and holding the left shoulder button.
The basic key to survival in Ninja Gaiden is to balance your offense and defense, which sounds simple enough but ends up being a constantly intriguing challenge when squaring off against the game's tough bad guys.
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