"Remember how your fingers used to hurt back in 2004? Remember how many times you’ve shouted at your TV because Murai was too hard to beat? Remember Rachel? Four years later, Tomonobu Itagaki, now ex-executive producer at Team Ninja, strikes back once more with Ninja Gaiden II, the highly anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed 2004 Ninja Gaiden for the original Xbox."

"I'll say this for Ninja Gaiden II -- it's got great combat.

Slicing up ninjas, demons and dinosaurs-on-fire in this new Xbox 360 game is a demanding and rewarding task. Both you and your enemies are fast and furious. Your ninjutsu is powerful, but you're constantly challenged to use it wisely. The gruesome decapitations and dismemberments, complete with body parts that lie around after you finish your opponents off, are intense.

The problem is, the game's designers seem to have focused ..."

Given the review by IGN giving Ninja Gaiden II for the XBOX360 8.7/10, it's certainly not a shock to anyone to hear that it got a fairly similar score from CheatCC (4.2/5).

With the game being released yesterday, the review can help you to make your mind up as to whether or not you want to get the game, however as the review shows, if your a Ninja Gaiden fan, then you'd be a fool to miss out and not get this game.

IGN has just reviewed Ninja Gaiden II and gave it a pretty nice score of 8.7/10, stating main points that it has a bad storyline, great graphics, the soundtrack goes very well if the gameplay, the camera could be improved and that the game would be best tried on harder difficulties, to give you more of a challenge and thus, make it more appealing and last longer. Read the full article at the source.

"The story plays out across 14 beautifully rendered levels in different locations around the world, taking full advantage of the power on offer in the Xbox. The scenery at times is breathtaking, but this being a fighting game, there is little time to admire the background as the enemies come thick and fast."