Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z
Step into a living comic book in this new take on the Ninja Gaiden series. Brandishing his ninja sword and the mecha weapons in his cyber arm, Yaiba slaughters zombies with brutal, over-the-top abandon. Will…
Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z is an adventure developed by Comcept, released 18 March 2014 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z is
Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z is an adventure game developed by Comcept and released in 2014. It was published by Koei Tecmo Games. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Step into a living comic book in this new take on the Ninja Gaiden series. Brandishing his ninja sword and the mecha weapons in his cyber arm, Yaiba slaughters zombies with brutal, over-the-top abandon. Will you slice enemies to pieces, crush them with Yaiba's cyborg arm or just rip off a zombie’s arms to use as nunchucks?
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Ninja Gaiden series
Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z is the 38th of 51 entries we hold in the Ninja Gaiden series. It arrived a year after Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus. The next entry was Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z - Special Edition in 2014. Its critic score of 46 is 29 points below the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Ninja Gaiden at 93.
How it was received
Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z holds a critic score of 46 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 23 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z launched on 18 March 2014, within three weeks of South Park: The Stick of Truth, Dark Souls II, Hearthstone and Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: South Park: The Stick of Truth, Dark Souls II, Hearthstone, Diablo III: Reaper of Souls.
Official trailer
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