New mode for Ninja Gaiden 2 this month

By Robert Purchese Published 10 July, 2008

Plus videos with skull locations.

Microsoft plans to release a new downloadable mode for Ninja Gaiden 2 on 25th July.

This is Mission Mode and it has 25 different mini-challenge stages to aim for high scores on. These will be a mixture of using different weapons or staying alive as long as possible as well as lots of other rules and regulations.

Your scores will be fed into leaderboards so your friends can see them and be coaxed into besting them. The Mission Mode challenge bundle will cost 800 Microsoft Points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.60).

Also, available tomorrow will be 30 videos explaining where all of the skulls in the action slasher are. Which is nice.

Ninja Gaiden 2 came out in June and was a gory and balletic feast of action. Violence your way to our Ninja Gaiden 2 review to find out more.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (18) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Vice.Destroyer #1 4 years ago

    Awesome. I'm getting that.

    Edit: And if anyone wants to know where those 30 skulls are RIGHT NOW, YouTube has beaten them to the punch.
    Edited by 1 at 10/07/08 @ 14:59

  • Rizo #2 4 years ago

    Wern't these features free at one point? THey came wth the game

  • Quint2020 #3 4 years ago

    Haven't finished the main game yet, will probably pick this up at some point after i've finished it

  • christourlord #4 4 years ago

    Fuck that. The "extra" mode should have shipped with the game in the first place.

  • bad09 #5 4 years ago

    I think selling game modes as DLC is a rip off just as bad as horse armour. Not what we want MS!!!

    When I do get round to picking up NG2 (too much to play at the mo) I won't be picking this up.

  • MattyD #6 4 years ago

    800 points? LOL! Despite wanting desperately to love this game I eventually gave up on it around chapter 9 thanks to the cheap cheap cheap bosses. They can take their DLC and shove it where the sun don't shine.

  • miiiguel #7 4 years ago

    Getting this, not even started playing the game, but too many points at the moment...

  • OllyJ #8 4 years ago

    I gets good again after 9 to be honest that boss i pretty easy, plus you have to play the now infamous staircase battle on chapter 10.


    It's a classic gaming moment.

  • AceMaCool #9 4 years ago

    Love the game but seems a bit steep to me for something that should have come with the game. Will probably get it though as I am a total sucker.

  • MBar #10 4 years ago

    the now infamous staircase battle on chapter 10.

    slooooooooooooooooooooooooo moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooootion

  • DUFFKING #11 4 years ago

    This was a part of the full game as an unlockable for beating it, but they pulled it so they could sell you it.

  • OllyJ #12 4 years ago

    I'm kind of hoping that now Itakagi has effed off we'll get a rebalanced NG2Black....IE fun.

  • DUFFKING #13 4 years ago

    I always thought it was unbalanced because of the working environment/relationship at tecmo. That or the development team spend the entire production period high or drunk and didn't notice the glaring errors.

  • juuken #14 4 years ago

    Well screw you Microshaft. When I get this game along with the 360, I won't be paying for that. This was a free feature on all the Ninja Gaiden games, even Ninja Gaiden Sigma, whom everyone likes to bash repeatedly.

    That's absolute bullcrap.
    Edited by 1 at 10/07/08 @ 21:04

  • muscleblade #15 4 years ago

    @miiiguel

    Well, what exactly are you waiting for. The game is fantastic.

    Anyway, i thouth the only hard boss (on warrior) was the last one. Had to use a couple of continues on that son of a bitch.

    No bosses in NG2 can compare too ALMA in the first one. Alma is the single hardest boss ever. Even the last boss in Rez are a cakewalk compared to her.

  • muscleblade #16 4 years ago

    Loved the staircase battle despite the really bad slowdown. Epic.

  • DAN.E.B #17 4 years ago

    im at the two dragon bosses at the mo
    i assume i have to use the bow and arrows the whole time?

  • muscleblade #18 4 years ago

    @DAN:SOLO

    You assume right. The first form of the last Boss is also Bow and arrows only.