Ninja Gaiden 3 announced

by James Ransom-Wiley on Sep 15th 2010 10:06AM

Tecmo Koei revealed Ninja Gaiden 3 during a behind-closed door event today (in conjunction with TGS), reports VideoGamer.com. The announcement was accompanied by a teaser image showing blood-soaked franchise protagonist Ryu Hayabusa removing his mask.

According to VideoGamer, the image represents themes that will be explored in the new sequel: both the "human side" of Ryu and a "more violent and bloody experience" (if you can believe it). Neither platforms nor further release information was given.

Shortly before E3 last year, Team Ninja boss Yosuke Hayashi talked up his studio's commitment to furthering the Ninja Gaiden series. Today's reveal is the first hard evidence of Ninja Gaiden 3 since that time.

Update: GamePro confirms the reveal went down at a private event hosted by Team Ninja, and adds that Ninja Gaiden 3 "is so early in development, the developer only showed journalists a piece of concept art" (above; see a bigger version after the break).

Source: VideoGamer.com, GamePro

Tags: ninja-gaiden, ninja-gaiden-3, team-ninja, tecmo-koei, tgs-2010

Reader Comments (49)

Nice. In this one Ryu should have to get permission to use his sword from his ninja master.

@lagomorph you now have my permission to use Izuna Drop.

proceeds to EXPLODE SOME HEADS by slamming them into the ground from a spinning pile driver from high in the sky.

@lagomorph

...I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought that was stupid in Metroid.

Then again I can see why they used that mechanic so her power ups throughout the game were progressive and didn't give you everything from the start....

...but I can think of at least 6 other ways this could have been addressed...like the old standard...I dunno..."OMG I took a critical hit from this giant THING of DOOM at the very start and all my power ups got scattered to the four winds...and I gots to go finds 'em all again!"

I did like the quip Samus gives the guy towards the end (omitted for spoilers but watch for it ^_^), even the game itself makes fun of that stupid mechanic....

@ShadowXIII

Yeah, the idea just didn't hold up to scrutiny. I mean, I guess Adam wanted us to die in Lava? I'm sure the Varia suit, which has only a defensive application, made the space marines feel inadequate... Also, why did you find missle/energy tanks strewn about the ship!? Did those mysteriously vanish from your suit?

It would have been more fun to just find the screw attack again because by taking away the possibility that you might happen upon something other than a missle/energy/accel upgrade, it was like a cracker jack box filled with underwear and socks.

Sweet. Now waiting for the lame, which console gets it first announcement. Agh.

@ZeroHour682
I'm guessing it'll be multiplatform; Itagaki was the only one who was hung up on making Microsoft exclusives. Unless, of course, this is the previously-announced NG game for 3DS. Which I sort of doubt.

@ZeroHour682
Let's hope it's multiplatform right off the bat. Itagaki was in favor of the Xbox, but when he left the guy in charge was all in favor for the PS3. Personally, I play Xbox, but there's no reason to make it exclusive when you can get double the sales by going multiplatform. At least, it seems like the blood and ultra-violence will be returning.

Oh man, this games looks hardcore just by looking at that poster.

Guess it's a good day to be a action brawler fan.

@Pasty theyre like fpses in japan.. also.. i wish they actually made brawlers instead of hack and slashes.. not that i dont like hack and slashes.. but throwin punches is much more fun than usin swords and guns..

@shouryuuken yeah but its always fun killing studd with ryu's rad blade.

@shouryuuken

Can we get a Godhand up in here?

A teaser poster of bewbs would be more appropriate.

@ThatStuffsLethal

Ayane!!!

@ThatStuffsLethal

But Itagaki isn't there anymore...

BITCHIN'. I love me some Ninja Gaiden.

let me guess.. its going to be developed by a western studio whose pedigree includes one mediocre action title.. like visceral games or something..

@shouryuuken
Yeah, that's why it's being announced by the DEVELOPER of the last three games.

@ThatStuffsLethal i guess someone doesnt understand a joke or something.. i really dont care because dmc isnt one of my favorite series or anything.. after the first game (even though i own 2 - 4), i havent been all that impressed by the series.

still just think its lame overall for japanese devs to hand off their series to western devs.. and that dmc was ugly... before long, there will be no games developed in japan that arent on a handheld.

@gatotsu911 although its been updated since youve posted this comment.. "Tecmo Koei revealed Ninja Gaiden 3 during a behind-closed door event today"

tecmo koei is a publisher in case you didnt know.. and it was a joke anyways..

@shouryuuken
I'm just incredibly smart, and also Yosuke Hayashi is the head of TEAM NINJA.

And for someone who claims to be joking, you sure don't seem to have a sense of humor about it.

@ThatStuffsLethal yeah, saying it over and over will suddenly make your assumption correct... or not.

Lemme guess, 360 gets it first (which I'm fine with), and the eventual PS3 port has no gore (which annoys me to no end).

One thing though, Team Ninja: please don't feel the need to focus on story. We know Ryu Hayabusa's a badass, and that's all we need to know. Look how well "showing the human side" of your protagonist turned out for your most recent collaborator.

"so early in development, the developer only showed journalists a piece of concept art"?

Wow, looks like Nintendo's rubbed off on them in more ways than one. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.

what's the over-under on how many times Ludwig will play this? game of the year?

just by looking at the pic i have died twice and looked up an FAQ on the boss.

will it be Deliberately hard or accidently hard i wonder

lol @ the update.

Here's this drawing of Ryu beheading a dude with his own thumbs that Yosuke drew on the train ride over here.

@lagomorph
I'd like to see that.

@lagomorph
Bet the thumbs look suspiciously like boobs, though.

Glad to see Team Ninja taking a break from ruining Metroid.

but :(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_Gaiden_III:_The_Ancient_Ship_of_Doom

@daftsquare

That game was evil :p.

It's hard to believe that the game is going to be more violent than NG2. Holy cats, that game was violent!

Regardless, I'm stoked for another NG game. Though I'd like to see them return to the story telling strengths of the first two games on the NES.

@Morph156

The version you are thinking of is the Itagaki version.

IF you want to see this guys version, check out the PS3 release of Gaiden 2, they replaced severed limbs and fountains of blood with sparkly blue magic and equally magic disappearing limbs.

So any amount of blood shown for this one is a surprise to me.

i guess team ninja is going back to their comfort zone

Having a few doubts. Without Itagaki and his main people behind the wheel, I wonder how NG will be in the future.

Just fix the horrible camera from Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2.

More Ninja Gaiden is a good thing but I'm skeptical without Itagaki onboard.

An Itagaki-less Ninja Gaiden will undoubtfully be a "different" Ninja Gaiden -- I only hope they will not just try to copy for formula of the two previous games for fear of being unable to deliver a good game.. all teams who take this approach fail miserably. The new head of Team Ninja should try and improve what was existing, and hopefully add what was missing (a STORY maybe?)

@Obyinlondon
Story?? God, no. Don't encourage them.

as long the story isnt as crappy as NG2, it would be nice to get another dose of the ninja gaiden series.

Good to see Hayashi learned his lesson that blood is better than purple mist.

I'm curious to see what team ninja can do to push the genre forward. I think that Bayonetta has set the bar now as far as game play is concerned.

I've learned my lesson after the first 2. I must wait a few months for the sigma version.

Pft... No Itagaki, not interested

i think it'll be awesome if it was like a run-and-gun, but run-and-slice-off-limbs with awesome ninja weapons

oops. i think there is already a game with that name. boy will they be embarrassed when they find out.

Dammit, if it's so early in development, why announce it? Either way, I'm glad the game is on its way.

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