Tenchu 2: Birth of the Stealth Assassins

SUMMARY:
this game rules, ive played alot of games but very few have i liked this much. the story is excellent and the moves are great. there is nouthing better than a stealth game. the kill moves make the game more realistic. the only thing i would change is that you should be able to kill the bosses in stealth as well as the regular enemys.

THE BAD:
Dodgy AI, sticky camera, and getting spotted when you shouldn't

SUMMARY:
If you have never touched this game, put everything down, and go buy it and its prequel, because you will want to be prepared when Tenchu 3 comes out. This game is intense. You are a Ninja, not like that other game. You are a stealth-laden sword stabbing killing machine.
You can leap from rooftops, snap spines, impale unsuspecting victims, and even decapitate innocents (points get deducted, but oh well, how's about a nice blood bath.) The voice overs are amusing in their stereotypical melodrama, but the real aspect that shines through it all is the gameplay. Cats meow at you, dogs bark and alert guards. Even your loud movements can alert people. Cool!!!! They come looking for you so you must be good at hiding, because you never want to kill in the open. You are a ninja, not a samurai.
You also get to use cool ninja items, like smoke bombs and shurikens(throwing stars), plus many many others and there are new additions from the first game, like a blow gun with poison darts.
The controls are fantastic, you can creep along walls and crouch and hide in the shadows. You really feel as if you are Rikumaru, Tatsumaru, or Ayame. There are different setups for each level, so it is rarely the same when you play it over. Unless you memorize all for each of the MASSIVE levels, I doubt you will get bored, and if you have the time to memorize all the levels, then it will be money well spent. After you beat them you get scored on them, so many of us will revisit the game to get Master Ninja or Grand Master or whatever rank is highest(I forget) on everything.
The only things that lack in this game are the enemy intelligence and camera. They will see you, chase you, and then forget about you. I guess intruders are no big deal, or the bad guys take too many drugs and hallucinate more often than they should. Sometimes the camera messes up and gets hung up on things, so you get spotted, or you misjudge where you need to jump to execute that from the rooftops kill(very hard to do) but rewarding.
Three very good additions to this game are swimming, yeah!!! No more ninja acid-bath like in the first one, what kind of ninja can't swim, anyway? And, the create your own levels can be entertaining, and you set the difficulty. Also, the extra challenge stages at the end are cool and add a new kind of flavor to the game. You get to see some of the characters in a different setting which adds to its replayability.
This game is more of the original, amazing graphics, intricate gameplay, heart pounding action, same bad plotline, but amusing at the least. Some of the missions are better, and some aren't as cool as the first. I can't say anything bad about this game though, because it is incredible.

THE BAD:
There where a couple of things I didnt like about this game, for instanc I found that prt 2 is aimed at a younger audience. For example theres more bright stages, some goofier enemy's, and less or no"assisiation" like missions like prt1. Stupid blinder enemies, no music, the camera messed me up at times, because somehow the camera ends up behind me while doing a mission, it harder to reuse the rice like in prt 1, once they pick it up here, its gone. The attacking also bothered me a bit to, cause you'll attack them and they'll end up behind you. The acting was so-so . This game also reminds me of the Ninja Turtles with your young ninjas and their master, plus the bad ninja clan planing to take over the world. I didnt like a couple of the stages because there mostly outside in a wooded area, not much mansions or castles. Finally I wish they would have put a De-bug mode like in prt 1, that was an off the hook secret.

SUMMARY:
When I first heard about Tenchu 2 coming out I was like"yea, more new assisination missions" but after the first day I was like"umm...?". This game didnt have my expectations and felt like a 3-d version of a Nintendo game with stealth. But on the good side I was pretty fond of some new stealth kills and stealing the enemy's weapons and dragging their corpse. I just hope Tenchu 3 takes the good of both parts and puts it in one.

THE BAD:
Somewhat repetative, horrible dialogue, too much like a samurai movie and that's about it.

SUMMARY:
Honestly a great waste of time.See how many hours go by trying to get grand master on all stages and making the most difficult (but not impossible) stage ever and youll find that youd been better off goin to work. lol, j/k, a great game all around, if you havent tryed it.... well then you should. Buh-bye.

THE BAD:
nothing

SUMMARY:
I think tenchu2 is the best platform game i have ever played on.I think the story line is brilliant the charectors are wickid.I think some of the best bits of the game are the stealth kills and the items and all the differnt enemys the blood is cool and the bosses are kick ass.The anly draw back is that you can only be three players becouse like once you've compliated it with the all three players you should beable to be lady kagami or genbu,zusaku are someone else like that.But averall it is a woop ass game.

THE BAD:
grapics engine really buggy. Certain game elements parse weird, causing there to be some interface issues.

SUMMARY:
This game could have been a prefect example of what a sequel should be, if the developers had finished the product before releasing it. The game has some great features, the mission editor being one of the coolest. There are three playable characters; two return from the original and you can play as a third character after completing the game with the first two. The missions for each character are different and they interweave to create a compelling story. They included day missions which add difficulty – suddenly black doesn't seem like all that great of a fashion statement. The voice acting was, thankfully, much better than in the original. (Although the grappling hook still sounds like someone zipping up their pants) Missions are difficult and challenging; they still stress stealth over hacking and slashing.

Although the game has many wonderful points it clearly suffers from some problems. The camera is difficult to control for movement, but luckily there is a manual control. There is a little bit of slowdown in the drawing engine, and the distance fog is only about ten feet out from your character, making it difficult to see what's coming until it's right on top of you. The graphics were unpolished. They weren't bad, but they clearly hadn't received their final once over by the art guys; lots of jagged polygons. There are a few other issues of control, balance, and enemy AI that enter the equation as well, subtracting from the experience. Using your grappling line is a good example. If you are not perpendicular with your target, you will fall. How's that for stealthy? It's a good game. It has loads of play time and challenge. The fact that you can design your own missions adds a lot to the game, but I would have loved to seen it completed.