Tenchu: Stealth Assassins
Tenchu: Stealth Assassins is an action-adventure stealth game developed by Acquire and published by Sony Music Entertainment Japan in Japan and Activision worldwide for the PlayStation in 1998. Tenchu is known…
Tenchu: Stealth Assassins is an adventure developed by ACQUIRE Corp., released 26 February 1998 on PlayStation.
What Tenchu: Stealth Assassins is
Tenchu: Stealth Assassins is an adventure game developed by ACQUIRE Corp. and released in 1998. It was published by Activision Publishing. It is available on PlayStation only. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game takes place in feudal Japan, introducing a pair of ninja: Rikimaru (力丸) and Ayame (彩女), members of the Azuma ninja clan since childhood. The two ninja serve the heroic Lord Gohda and work for him as his secret spies to root out corruption and gather intelligence in his province. However, the evil demonic sorcerer Lord Mei-Oh seeks to destroy Lord Gohda, and uses his demon warrior Onikage, who wreaks havoc throughout Lord Gohda's province.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Tenchu: Stealth Assassins launched on 26 February 1998, within three weeks of Xenogears, 1080° Snowboarding and Battlezone.
Released around the same time: Xenogears, 1080° Snowboarding, Battlezone.
Official trailer
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