Tenchu Z
Tenchu Z returns you to ancient Japan as you master the secret arts of the Ninja. Take on 50 stealth ninja missions, as you build up your chosen character. You’ll follow orders from Rikimaru, star of the previous Tenchu games, as you collect weapons and build Ninja skills. Patience and strategic thinking will pay off — true Ninja mastery only comes with keen use of sound, sight and smell detection as you learn new moves and obtain new weapons. The new stealth kill system reward strategy and skill over the usual “run and gun” fighting. Also four-player cooperative play through Xbox Live.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Tenchu Z review
the game is REALLY cool. i’ve owned almost all of the other Tenchu games and this one is… well… more of the same, which in my opinion is just fine because i love the old games. something new though, they did make it where Rikimaru is the head of the Azuma Ninja clan and your character that you play is a custom made character that you can unlock special moves, clothing, ninja items ect. so in that sense it is much cooler that the previous Tenchu games. the game play is good, but the story line is a bit weak and they seem to be recycling the same levels with different senerios, but i don’t mind it that much.
overall a good addition to anyone’s gamer library.
4 Stars “Nani?”
Alright, I’ll say this right here and right now; The game is wonderful, but the storyline lacks and is much too short. I was most disappointed the fact that the game literally ends telling you to go buy the sequel… Whenever that comes out. I bought this game about a week ago and already beat it twice, sadly, on Hard difficulty and Normal difficulty. But I’m not saying this game is easy at all. Before I bought the game I had played the same mission over and over again on a demo of the game I randomly found on the XBOX LIVE marketplace. I was like, “Hey, Ninjas! Sounds cool!” and I was right. Looking to the bright side of the game; Everything in it is extremely historical. It’s fiction, of course, but the creators of the game did their history lessons. Nope, you won’t find any flying robot ninjas in this game. I’d say I’m sorry to disappoint you, but I’m not. This information was from a friend who obsesses over Japanese history; On one level, there are several candles sitting up high in the camp. He said, “This was so if anyone walked by them during the night, everyone on the camp would notice immediately.” I’m not sure if it works like that in the game, necessarily, but it’s just a small piece of historical fun facts. The traps in this game, as well, such as walking by a string on the ground covered with wind chimes makes a LOT of noise, also traps that make you fall down bottomless pits in the ground, were all real traps designed by the Japanese back then. The game’s design, of course, is a wonderful product of it all. I love walking into a Japanese styled room and seeing a flat pillow on the floor next to a small table with sake placed on it, along with several Japanese styled futons and such, making you feel like you really lived back then. There’s even a level or two where you must assassinate foreigners from other countries. It makes me laugh; Once you kill them, they scream “Ouch!” whereis everyone else in the game speak Japanese. That’s right, THIS GAME WASN’T DUBBED OVER. THANK GOD. But finally we must talk about the gameplay or this whole review was a useless wall of text. All you need to know is this; You must not be seen. You were never there. You never existed. The man you killed was never found. The man you killed didn’t even know you killed him, even at the last moment. Nobody heard anything, nobody saw anything. Nobody glanced at anything. There was no witnesses, and if there was, they must die. Protect the innocent, and kill the ones bearing swords. Those are the only rules of the game. As a last note; the gameplay is quite wonderful due to the fact everything your character does is actually physically possible with enough training. None of that jumping thirty feet in the air or anything. You’re just human. You die as fast as other humans. You just have better training than the rest of the villagers. That’s all. You’re no super warlord or got dunked in toxic acid and became superman or whatever. You just must remember that you CAN die, and you will. If you’re seen, FLEE. Bottom line; Most realistic game I’ve ever seen. Everyone should play this, at least once. We need more games like this without screaming ninjas wearing orange riding on huge frogs or whatever. Phew. Oh, and one last thing; for the fans of this game, please watch the anime “Samurai Champloo”. I’m sure you’d love it!
5 Stars AMAZING!!!!!!!!!
This game i would recommend because you can create your own ninja!you can go on assassinating people (but not in real life)on missions!best game ever!
5 Stars Live By Honor, Kill By Stealth
Tenchu finaly makes it to the next generation of gaming. Tenchu Z is the game Tenchu fans have been waiting for for about ten years, and it was worth the wait.
Lets get this out of the way first, the story is a little thin granted, it’s not bad it just isn’t present for most of the game. Many of the levels have short typed intros like previous games in the series but the main story isn’t affected by most of these missions. The lack of a truly compelling story is disappointing but this game really shines in other departments. This is the longest Tenchu game yet with something like 51 levels, that is a hell of a lot better than only 10, but all of the levels are repeated several times with different enemy layouts so it’s not 51 ‘new’ levels but still it’s pretty great. Some of the levels are even old levels from the first game redone, which I thought was realy cool.
The game plays just as you would expect it to and feels like Tenchu should. The controls fit the game well even though it’s a completely new layout for the series. The controller layout for Return from Darkness on XBOX was a little akward but everything works just fine with Z on XBOX 360. I would go on and list all of the abillites but if you’re like me you’ll want to discover them yourself. I will say the added abillities like peeking through shoji doors and stealth killing through them are awe inspiring the first time you do them. I don’t know if anyone has said it yet but most of what makes Z great was taken from Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. This is not a bad thing at all in fact the first thing I thought of when I played Splinter Cell for the first time was ”It would be great if you could do stuff like that in Tenchu!”and what do you know, FROM SOFTWARE must have really listened to their fans on this one. There isn’t anything wrong with shared success in videogames, if someone perfects an aspect of a game why should everyone else try to reinvent the same aspect for themselves. For example Resident Evil 4 adopted the aiming camera from Splinter Cell, Gears of War adopted their camera and controls from Resident Evil 4 and Dark Sector adopted their controls from Gears of War, its a natural progression of the gaming industry.
You realy get a feel of what it must have been like to be a Ninja, each level is your playground and your enemy’s graveyard. With all the abilities of a Ninja in your hands you do feel quite powerful, at least until you have to fight one of the three boss battles in the game. The bosses aren’t real hard but they do take an ungodly amount of punishment before they give up the ghost. Z has more of a focus on assassination than fighting so the boss battles in every other level are gone but you can fight if you want, you’ll even get a bonus for dueling your target.
The boss battles are the weakest aspect of the game but as I said there are only three of them. The customization in the game however is very stong, with millions of outfit combos and a hundred ability combos it’s likely to be played differently by everyone. Most of the abilities are useful but some just don’t come in all that handy most of the time, like the sprint or ‘badger run’ it sounds cool but to use it requires a press of the same button used to cling to walls. Pressing this button while crouched will cling you to a wall while crouched but if ‘badger run’ is active it will cause you to slam your head into a wall alerting nearby enemies, thats bad but there realy isn’t a lot to complain about with this game. Games should be fun and Tenchu Z is almost too much fun.
Tenchu Z is Tenchu at it’s best aside from a lacking story I’d say it’s the best they’ve done so far, I just hope they dont feel the need to stray to far from the success they’ve had with this one. Lets see some add-ons for Tenchu like we see with
Armored Core FROM SOFTWARE come on.
4 Stars It’s all about being a Ninja
Tell me that I am that too late to play this game. It’s a 2 years old game since it’s released.
Transform yourself being a ninja, stalking, plan and studying the enemies and areas before executing moves; then gain a smooth accomplishment.
Complicated but relaxing game. It’s a unique game that can relieve your daily stress.
It’s good for those (gamers) who want to end the night before wake up in the early morning and prepare to get busy at work.
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