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Top Five Ninja Games

26-May-2009 They're taking time out from their battle against pirates to reveal their top five games!

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They dress in black, they run across rooftops, they do backflips all the time.

Ninjas are the ultimate lifeform. Who else gets to run around and kill people while wearing pyjamas? Granted, the laws were a lot more lax back then, but even so... ninjas are awesome.

As such, ninjas often make it into videogames, going right back to the days of The Last Ninja through to Xbox 360 now. With the diesil-powered HD graphics and more memory than an elephant, the potential for games has now gone through the roof. But what are the top ninja games on Xbox 360?

1. Ninja Gaiden II
Ryu Hayabusa has all the qualities of a good ninja, a thirst for vengeance, some shurikens and the ability to kill giant monsters. It's a bloody tough game too, enough to make any ninja flip out and slice his Xbox 360 in half after another off-screen missile kills him.

2. Ninja Blade
We like Ninja Blade for one big reason, you get to ride a motorcycle through the sky over Tokyo. Beat that! Well, you can, when you slice a giant crab thing in half. After slicing off all its legs. And used its own momentum to deliver the killing blow after it slides down a motorway tunnel about a mile.

3. Tenchu Z
For the more authentic samurai experience, join Rikimaru and friends in this Japanese stealth game as they dangle off rooftops, stab enemies through paper doors and scramble away in an ungainly panic after their clumsy-footed ways means everyone spots them.

4. Saints Row 2
Complete enough side-missions and a gang of ninjas will be yours to command. They're not ninjas in the truest sense of the word - ninjas would never live in the city and drive a sports car - but they're still lethal and still have more style in their small toe than you have in your entire family.

5. Pirates vs Ninjas Dodgeball
Ninjas and pirates resume their age-old feud, with a game of dodgeball. We're not sure why they don't just kill them. It would make things much easier. Would make the game much shorter too, which given how depressingly average it is, would definitely be a good thing.

OXM Staff