Ninja Gaiden 2 worldwide in June

By Robert Purchese Published 20 February, 2008

With some sort of video capturing.

Tomonobu Itagaki has revealed that Ninja Gaiden 2 will be released worldwide in June, exclusively on Xbox 360.

Specifically the US will get the game on 3rd June. No other territory was picked out.

The leather jacket and sunglass-clad boss of Tecmo announced the date at the Microsoft GDC keynote earlier this evening, after showing a special Temple of Sacrifice demo to the crowd.

In it we saw hero Ryu slice through bizarre enemies like they were an offensive piece of cheesecake and he a furious fork, creating a bloody great mess that left us thoroughly confused.

Thank goodness for the frequent controller disconnections, then, and the demonstrator pausing to save before fighting some sort of boss creature with wings and obviously bigger muscles than the rank and file goons.

Interestingly, there also seemed to be some sort of "record" function where you can capture moments of action and upload them. We speculated that this could be some sort of Leaderboard with video proof. [That was certainly what it sounded like - The Man Who Was There]

And that was that.

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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 (10) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • captainrentboy #1 4 years ago

    I want this game NOW, I hope it's not released on the weekend I'm at the download festival, I can't bloody wait.
    Still have to finish the first one mind, I got to the second to last level, and then it just continuously handed my ass to me, I gave up before I literally murdered someone.

  • Santino #2 4 years ago

    my god the combat in the latest video looks brilliant, the game can't come soon enough.

    edit: and this seriously better not get censored upon release here, and if it does i hope it will be a region free game
    Edited by 1 at 20/02/08 @ 21:17

  • Skeletor #3 4 years ago

    Check this out, GDC trailer, HD quality...bloody hell, there's no way you can censor this!

    http://www .gamersyde.com/news_5998_en.html
    Edited by 1 at 20/02/08 @ 21:41

  • captainrentboy #4 4 years ago

    God damn Skeletor, that vid was fannytastic. One thing that pleased me immensely was that the camera seems to be handling the action faaaar better than it was in the videos a few months back. Infact in the whole 6 minutes I don't think it fucked up once. Good stuff.
    And one of the combos towards the middle of the video was bloody rediculous, can't wait to play this, only 3 months to go.

  • Ryze #5 4 years ago

    Gotta wait until fucking June, then buy a £40 game when I'll be more interested in going to New York!

    Oh well...

    /waits...

    /hopes for decent camera and right stick control...

  • NegativeZero #6 4 years ago

    Now watch as Australia refuses it classification and the BBFC censor it to hell before release.

    :(

  • Darren #7 4 years ago

    I've a feeling this game will be a mild disappointment personally after the lacklustre DOA4 and dire DOA Xtreme 2 on the Xbox 360 and the lazy Ninga Gaiden Sigma port on the PS3. Hopefully I'm wrong but although I'm sure I'll end up buying the game anyway and enjoying it, it's not one I'm itching to play following the likes of superb God of War series and especially DMC4, which I'm thoroughly enjoying. The video footage I've seen of NG2 looks OK though but nothing special IMO.

  • Darren #8 4 years ago

    @Crofto - Have you have ever heard of Difficulty Levels? ;)

    While I personally *do* hope that Team Ninja makes the sequel more accessible, there's nothing wrong with including a range of difficulty levels from the off for all tastes from Easy to Extremely Challenging so everyone can enjoy it not just those that are masochistic enough to actually enjoy the default levels (which even the developers admit are intentionally hard). DMC4 is the most accessible and thus the best DMC game I've played to date because it allowed me to complete it yet still play through on harder difficulty levels rather than dropping me in at the deep end and putting me off the whole thing just half-way through. I *want* to complete the games I pay £40 for, thank you!

    And, please, don't give me all that "you're rubbish, you should try harder" crap because everyone is different and what might be easy for one person, might be hard for someone else. I like to play games for enjoyment not to be frustrated and annoyed. Games like Ninja Gaiden are very easy to implement difficulty levels into so there's no excuse for Team Ninja alienating lesser gamers. I admit I'm not a brilliant gamer (nor do I care that I aren't) but I do enjoy these kinds of games provided I can play them at my level of "expertise". And it is ironic that the Japanese are notorious for preferring easy games, so they can play more of them, yet a Japanese developer goes and makes their games uber-hard for the Western market.

  • asphaltcowboy #9 4 years ago

    Good post Darren!

  • bad09 #10 4 years ago

    Looks cool. I'm one of the few that never played NG: Black. I might download it off Live and see what I missed while waiting for this.