Quick Look: Ninja Gaiden 3 - Preview

Ninja Gaiden makes me cry a thousand tears...

ugh

As someone who played Ninja Gaiden on the NES years ago, I cannot wait.

^ ths is very true

Yep Troy Baker, not quite Nolan North.

This looks like Ninja Gaiden Gaiden.

That hawk stands in Judgement of that dude.

The slow-walk scene looks fucking stupid and forced.

Also, lots of QTE's and button mashing ... I'm bored.

Wait, that was Troy Baker? So Kanji is a ninja?

Always liked the idea of Ninja Gaiden. Never enjoyed playing them.

@CptBedlam: I laugh at your complete ignorance of the depth of combat.

Graphically, this is boring as hell.

GO NINJA GO NINJA GO

Button mashing, Quick Time Events, Earpiece conversations... Devil's Third it is then.

why aren't those guys trying to brutally murder the player?

Ninja Gaiden Push X Button

Ugh... The camera... good gravy.

Uhm what's up with the graphics? This looks like an original Xbox game almost...

Sigma and 2 looked far better.

Never cared for this series at all, where as Devil May Cry got it right with difficulty, pacing, balance, etc. This change up is nice.

@Sooty said:

Uhm what's up with the graphics? This looks like an original Xbox game almost...

Sigma and 2 looked far better.

It looks awful. I know its a Demo, but isn't this part of the finished game? Fugly stuff.

Falcon will never forget.

This looks boring as hell.

It is so weird to hear the voice of Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII as the narrator/woman in Ninja Gaiden.

Ugh. Why did they even bother to call this Ninja Gaiden?

What the hell did they do? Did they ever play or even SEE the first 2?

It looks like they really wanted to make a DMC style stylish action game but forgot the combo system.

You know, I always thought that Ninja Gaiden Black must have been good in spite of Oatmeal Cookie's influence, because I thought he was an idiot and a major cunt. But... I guess the game did need him? Did the rest of TEAM NINJA quit with him?

Dude, did I just see a rocket take off a tiny piece of Ryu's health? This does not look like the Ninja Gaiden I want. I will wait for the final verdict, however.

I have to say, the last thing I was expecting from this Quick Look was a Mystikal reference.

this doesn't look as good as it should.

I feel anything past Ninja Gaiden Black is crap I liked Ninja Gaiden 2 but it just does not have the same feel as NGB and this does not look good to me at all I hate QTE's and should never have been in this. Ninja Gaiden is about the action not stupid QTE's that's what Ninja Blade is for.

Back to the Rub'al Khali desert? They totally copied UC3.

This kind of looks like ass. It really makes me want to go back and play NGB.

Is it me or is the game really dark?

"Lets make the Dragon come again"

By the time you say, "Where are you ninja," it's already too late.

Camera! Y U ALWAYZ ZOOM?

Wtf? That desert level at the end looks even worse than the city. What happened to this game?

@Itwastuesday said:

You know, I always thought that Ninja Gaiden Black must have been good in spite of Oatmeal Cookie's influence, because I thought he was an idiot and a major cunt. But... I guess the game did need him? Did the rest of TEAM NINJA quit with him?

A bunch of major people from TN followed him if i remember correctly.

The Rub al Khali Desert? OMG, Ninja Gaiden is going to do a crossover with Uncharted! Ryu vs. Drake!

This makes the new Devil May Cry look good.

I hope this isn't representative of the final product, or it's going to be an even grimmer year for action games.

While I have never been much of a fan of the Ninja Gaiden games, they at least usually have a distinct feel. This just looks remarkably generic and reminds me more of that horrible Ninja Blade game than anything else.

I'm gonna say Objective Updated more often in my life

I DID go to Taco Bell for breakfast...

@CptBedlam: Man, this first boss with the face-mask and red coat, right? Block attacks. Hit him. Quick time sword lock.

Man, Ryan is commenting on an awful lot of NG-related things that he obviously doesn't know much about.

Casual Gaiden 3

Calling it "Ninja Gaiden: The Third" ended up being kinda prescient. If Team Ninja amped up the ridiculousness just a couple notches more, they might have something.

Poor Ajay

It's sad to see a great series like this fall by the wayside. The first in the series will never be matched.

This hurts. The design changes aside, it's a brown grey world populated by the same military guys in every other video game. Where are the purple demons with blue fire for heads? Where are the giant werewolves? And why did they add animations from Gears of War? I know it's just a demo, but it's not a good hook to make me want the game.