Ninja Assault
Ninja Assault is an arcade game developed and released by Namco in 2000. Two years later it was also published as a PlayStation 2 exclusive title with GunCon 2 compatibility. Ninja Assault was developed by…
Ninja Assault is an arcade developed by NOW Production, released 18 November 2000 on PlayStation 2 and Arcade.
What Ninja Assault is
Ninja Assault is an arcade game developed by NOW Production and released in 2000. It was published by Namco. It is available on PlayStation 2 and Arcade.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Once upon a time, in feudal Japan, a seemingly endless war had broken out. And now, the demon shogun Kigai has kidnapped Princess Koto as a sacrifice for his resurrection. But two ninja (named Guren and Gunjo) have arrived as humanity's last hope. Together they travel the demon-infested country to find Kigai, stop him from sacrificing Princess Koto, and save her at all costs. And thus a new war had spawned, humanity versus the demon race.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Ninja Assault holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 8% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 22 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Ninja Assault launched on 18 November 2000, within three weeks of Counter-Strike, Escape from Monkey Island, Jet Grind Radio and The Operative: No One Lives Forever. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Counter-Strike, Escape from Monkey Island, Jet Grind Radio, The Operative: No One Lives Forever.
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