Ninja Gaiden II to get three costume packs in July

by Justin McElroy on May 9th 2008 9:30AM

Ninja Gaiden II hasn't even been released yet and we're already bored of Ryu Hayabusa's costumes. Why? Our attention spans are just that sho-- oh crap, look, it's a ladybug! ... What were we saying? Oh, right, ninjas. As we're already deep in the clutches of boredom you can imagine our relief to hear that three new costume packs for the game would be released this July for 200 points (that's $2.50) a piece. You can see a full-sized version one of the offerings right here.

The strangest part? You actually have to jump through some hoops to be able to buy the first one, seen above. According to the Gamerscore Blog, the armor "will be exclusively available in selected countries to 39,000 gamers on launch day as part of pre-sale or launch promotions," whatever that means. We'd love to sit here and be incensed about the whole thing, but we've got a ladybug to track down. Seriously, it was right here.

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Tags: dlc, ninja-gaiden, ninja-gaiden-2, tecmo, Xbox-360, xbox-live

Reader Comments (44)

FABULOUS!

No, not fabulous! They should be free and unlocked when you beat the game on super duper ultra fricken hard mode. Love the avatar btw.

Yeah, I'll admit, that's a nice shoop. If you made the cheerleader outfit have a giant Nintendo logo on it, or a picture of Miyamoto, it would be an awesome troll on a certainnnnn someoneeeeeeee.

Anywho, I surely won't pay money to play dress-up with Ryu. Maybe if you give me a costume for a hot female character that is also playable, and you make it...I don't know...a buck....I'd buy it. Although...that is a pretty sweet Karas-esque outfit in that picture there.

I don't think I could stand wearing a mask that has a bar right across the middle of the eye-holes.

Eh, it's worked okay so far for Snake Eyes...and Geordi LaForge, for that matter.

Thank you, Microsoft, for offering me so many ways to give you money for things that should be free.

You're going to sell millions of NG2. You shouldn't charge extra for shit like this. Damn leeches.

And thank you, Veko, for that avatar. That's some funny sh*t.

I'm not gonna buy it and I'll and this paying for a costume idea is causing me to froth with generic outrage, but the concept art does look hot.

Can't wait till this comes out.

$2.50 for a costume pack? Its fuckin' horse armor all over again! Screw you M$!

Please direct all future nerd-rage in this regard to Tecmo.

Yes but MS does have a history of making things cost money when they come out as DLC on XBLA, even if the dev wants it to be free. So its tough to say if this is MS or Tecmo calling this shot.

Exactly. They could have simply included it in the game, as it's not even released yet.

Uh, sorry, that was meant as an agreement with Sir..

No, PojoMojo, it's not hard to see who's calling the shot on this. Why?

Because if it was MS essentially forcing them to charge for it, you would see them bundling all three outfits together for a flat rate. Instead you see the NamcoBandai approach to IdolMaster and Ace Combat 6 DLC where it's sold on an individual basis rather than a bundled basis like COD4 or Crackdown.

Sir is not in the industry...obviously, because he has no clue what he's talking about. Zilch. MS tells you to make some crap downloadable and then the developer has to decide how to bundle it. The developer and microsoft come to some agreement and then 95% of the time the developer makes jack squat from selling this stuff...about 25 - 75 cents per sale depending on your relationship with Microsoft and the developer's leverage and managerial talent/stubbornness. Also, if you decided to do this crap for microsoft, it's usually because microsoft did something for you...ala marketing.
Sir, if you do not know then do not state that you do.

Sir Fidlious Wong IS in the industry, ya fool.

So am I, isn't it sad?

How bad does Tecmo want this guy to be Raziel? I mean seriously, that skin plus the banner ad on IGN makes me think they'll subtitle the next sequel - Ninja Gaiden: Soul Reaver

Kain owns Raziel and Ryu.

Raziel is much cooler looking though

Well said, PojoMojo

Damn you. Now I want the next Legacy of Kain game. Defiance could not have been the last one. There has to be more..... Wait, this is a NG2 thread.

What's so special about getting fancy armor on launch day for a SINGLE PLAYER GAME?

Just proving once again that Japanese Developers have no clue about DLC. They are trying to apply the F2P MMO system to their 360 and PS3 games but here is the problem, F2P games are free. The extra outfits, weapons, accessories, visual shite, are ways for players to throw support behind a game they like that they play for free. Not for a game they paid $60 for.

Now if Tecmo would release special missions like what's on NGS, then it could be worth it for DLC. But outfit packs? Make the game free before you take ideas from Maple Story....

So we have evolved from horse armor to ninja armor? This is some nickle and dime bs.

Lucky for me that I dont really care about playing dress-up with my games. (Barbie Horse Adventures FTW!)

I love dress-up. Seriously, I wish a new RPG would take the system from Evergrace. Where else would you up your attack stats by wearing a Pumpkin for a head and a red scarf?

World of Warcraft?

I had a lot of fun in WoW for a while. But I found the most fun comes from level 1-30, after that the grinding and need to turn it into a job drove me away.

I am proud to say I have never touched World of Warcraft!

Reminds me of oblivion's horse armor....which I bought /cry.

I bought the horse armor too...

But god dammit, my Elven Armored Horse looks pimp!

YOU TWO ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM!!!

For shame.

That skin looks like an amalgam of The Darkness and Shadowhawk from Image Comics.

thats cool... but it shoud come with the game not something to pay for and download, hope to see DoA costume in there =´P cant wait for this game x´D

$2.50 for all three outfits...maybe. But $2.50 per outfit?! Come on. Get serious.

The great thing about this, as with all things for sale, is that you do not have to buy it.

Although I did hear that Tomonobu Itagaki said that anyone who doesn't buy all three is a huge dork. So I guess that's just the risk you run.

And who wants to be big dork? Nobody, that's who.

Seriously though, I wouldn't buy it. But I still haven't bought "Bringing down the sky", so maybe I'm a cheapskate?

WTF. Dead Rising had lots of free customs. Anyone with any sense won't buy these. Of course that won't happen and Tecmo/MS laugh all the way to the bank.

WTF? Halo Elites in MY game?!

Paying real money for a costume for your in-game character. Ugh. Count me out.

I didn't know that ninjas wore horse armor

I can has Recon Armor outfit????!

LOL! F U Tecmo and MS. MS are the nickel and dime kings this gen. $2.50 for a freakin change of cloths? And you know these things are already made and are being left out for the sole purpose of charging people money for them beyond buying the game.

What happened to showing appreciation to your fans that supported Ninja Gaiden since it launched? Fan service at a charge, what a losing proposition to gamers.

And let me guess if my console dies I won't even be able to see these outfits if I'm not connected to Live.

No sale!

Wait,you release a game and later one,release more content for it and its cool bonus to keep it fresh,release new content and its like an xpac,but hte game isnt even out and there already "cool stuff to download" there? damn thats wrong.

People im happy that when i bought my console it included cables and a control,we dont know when those will be "sold separetly".

Justin, that's 200 Microsoft points for 5 different costumes. The original post from the read link was updated.

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