Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword
This action-adventure title is presented in a third person, pseudo-3D manner, meaning all the game-models are rendered in full 3D, but the world the player travels around in is pre-rendered. When played, the…
Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword is an adventure developed by Team NINJA, released 20 March 2008 on Nintendo DS.
What Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword is
Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword is an adventure game developed by Team NINJA and released in 2008. It was published by Tecmo. It is available on Nintendo DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword is a 2008 action-adventure game developed by Team Ninja and published by Tecmo and Ubisoft for the Nintendo DS. A main installment in the Ninja Gaiden series, it features Ryu Hayabusa as the protagonist. The game is the first portable video game title in the series to be developed by Team Ninja and the first game developed by this company to be released for the Nintendo system. Dragon Sword is set between Ninja Gaiden and Ninja Gaiden II.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Ninja Gaiden series
Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword is the 27th of 51 entries we hold in the Ninja Gaiden series. It arrived 9 months after Ninja Gaiden Sigma. The next entry was Ninja Gaiden II in 2008. Its critic score of 80 is 5 points above the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Ninja Gaiden at 93.
How it was received
Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword launched on 20 March 2008, within three weeks of God of War: Chains of Olympus, Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition, Mario Kart Wii and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: God of War: Chains of Olympus, Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition, Mario Kart Wii, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2.
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