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Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2
- PlayStation 3
- Price: $59.99
- Genre: Action/Adventure
Common Sense Media says
Gory action game with ability to make breasts jiggle.
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 is not a child's game. While it has an over-the-top, comic book feel with villains and heroes wielding supernatural powers, the game emphasizes destruction and violence by showing dismemberment and blood. Also, several female character are dressed in revealing, provocative costumes displaying deep cleavage and jiggling breasts. Players can wiggle the controller to make these characters' breast move. In a brief scene, a women is shown naked, dripping in blood, before she transforms into a demon. The game can be played online with open chat so the potential to hear unsavory language is there.
What's it about?
NINJA GAIDEN SIGMA 2's story involves a superpowered ninja's mission to hunt down a giant, demonic statue. The plot, revealed in cutscenes, is inconsequential to the gameplay (and incomprehensible to all but hardcore fans of the series), concerns longstanding acrimony between clans of ninjas and demons. In most levels, players control the male ninja, Ryu, but three female characters are each playable in single, side missions as well.The core of the experience is shown from 3rd person view and shows the battling of four characters (three female, one male) against hordes of assorted demons and ninjas. All aspects - movement, speed, weapons, attacks - are over-the-top in the extreme; characters perform gravity defying leaps, bosses are enormous, spells radiate waves of destruction, etc. Online play, in which players can play as any of the game's four characters and team up, provides a variety of settings and players earn a place in rankings.
Is it any good?
A wide array of bosses and enemies, diverse gameplay modes, and incredible graphics make this an excellent action offering for mature players. The additional, playable characters, each with unique weapons and skills, plus the online cooperative play, add plenty of additional fun for PS3 owners. Occasional online lag, screen glitches, and awkward camera movements flaw the otherwise superlative experience.
Online interaction: Players can join others online and play game stages cooperatively. Voice chat is available online, so players are subject to a partner's potentially cursing and other, unsavory language.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about why the game makers included a feature that let you jiggle a characters breasts. Do you feel the effort put into this feature should have been applied to some other area of game? Does such a feature make you feel pandered to? Amused? Insulted? Is it obscene? Sexist?
Both Japanese and Classical mythology are referenced in the game. Families can talk about how the cultural influences and how/where they are used.
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Kid, 12 years old
May 17, 2011
AGE
Fine for Teens
This game was made by Tecmo expecting to get a T rating , and it failed. The game really doesn't deserve a M rating , Sigma was meant to be a Ninja Gaiden Series for Teens but both games failed. Ninja Gaiden 2 for the Xbox 360 did deserve an M rating because it was insanely Violent but Sigma it not bad at all. The Violence in Ninja Gaiden Sigma is only moderate with a Prince of Persia level of Violence. I do not remember seeing Any / Much Blood in Gameplay. Overall this is a great game worth buying and can now be for $25 on Amazon. The combat in this game is absolutely epic and my favourite Hack and Slash game of All Time.
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fun game though i suggest assassins creed 2
very fun and very violent u really cant see much blood because the levels are pretty dark for the most part but arms and other appendages are cut off during battle wether u mean to or not.its a stupid ability to make the famales' breasts jiggle and cant be done in less u shake the controller rampantly so just dont shake the frickin controller!the characters are trying to save the world from demons and such which is always good and common sense says that thier only means of doing that is violence and by the way how else would u do it? say please?wright a peace treaty? what? anyways that was off topic. this games good for people 11 and up.
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Some sex,can't say the same for violence.
Got this from Amazon for pretty cheap I played this long ago and can't remember most of the details but I do remember its violent as hell and lots of sex.
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| Platforms: | PlayStation 3 |
| Available online? | Available online |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure |
| Developer: | Tecmo |
| Release date: | September 29, 2009 |
| Price: | $59.99 |
| ESRB rating: | M for Blood and Gore, Partial Nudity, Suggestive Themes, Violence |
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