Even thought its remake of Ninja Gaiden its still a great game
One of the first games i wanted to picked up with my ps3 was Sigma and behold a week after getting my ps3 i got it. even thought there have been two other versions of the same game on the xbox it still does'nt show its ages at all.
You play the young Ninja Ryu Hayabusa (also from dead or alive). The story starts with Ryu Invading the Shadow clan ninja fort to pay a vist to his uncle name Muria who is the clan leader soon after thought Information comes that his village (Hayabusa) is under attack and Ryu Quickly returns back to defend it. The reason the Village is getting attacked is because inside it is the Dark Dragon Blade, a Sword of great evil. Ryu makes his way to a small hut where it seem that not only the blade is keeped but his childhood friend Kureha is also there. When he arrives he sees Kureha just befores she dies in a bed of flame. with her killer standing infront of Ryu holding the Dark Dragon Blade. They begian to fight but in the end Ryu is no match and is cut down and left to die. Soon after thought Ryu has recoreved and with the infomation he needs begains his quest to not only find the The Dark Dragon Blade but to get vengeances on the man that lead the attack and killed Kureha, Doku.
There two thing you notice when you start playing, the first is how nice it looks. Looking at the graphical jump its amazing and in HD its just to die for. Anamitions are also just lovely to watch. The next thing you notice is just how hard the game is. When compareing it to other games which have been released in the last few years its a lot more harder. The enemy AI is very good and you find yourself being on the defence a lot.
When not on the defence thought you can create some great feets of sword slashing fun, pulling off great looking combos and just genreal sword fighting is feels great and does'nt get repedetive because of how enemys react to your attacks. Boss fights are also great. The bosses in Ninja Gaiden are some of the hardest bosses in any game and won't give you anytime to sit down in one spot for two long. Even the second boss is a tought fight. Theres also a nice amout of weapons in the game which you collect as you play few and some are for sigma only.
The controls are well throught out and while its not to hard to master the combos its hard to time them right and know when to attack. The levels are very well thought out and look fanstatic to boot. there also little kind of little side quests as well like find the head of a statue and so. These don't really get in the way or anything but i would'nt of missed them if they were left out If there was any problem with the controls. I would say that the camera does tend to get in the way of fight a few times but because your always moving , most the time it can find its way into a good angle so you can start sending dudes flying.
The sound is also Good, the voice acting is of very high standed. Other then that the sound is genreally what you expect from a game. Your sword makes a sound when it hit somthing and the baddies go ow.
The story is also good and the term if somthing not broken why try fix it comes to mind. This is what they done, nothing from Ryu story has been changed and this is good cause we don't really want any stupid major plot twist or crap that were'nt in the game before. Althought there is one small problem with Ninja Gaiden Sigma and thats the fact the some things have been taken it. The biggest one that you notice is that the old Ninja gaiden games that you could unlock in Black are no where to been seen. This is a little anoying if this is meant to be the best out the lot but inclueding Rachel as playable is fun... i guess.
While i could try and find other little problems with the game but i won't due to the fact that what we have here is a good game. Even thought it is the 3rd remake its a good remake at that. Its a first time for all the xbox haters to get there hands on this game and the graphical update and small bonus are nice. So apart from a few small problems, I 100% recomend you pick up Ninja Gadien Sigma
