Tenchu Z just doesn't cut the mustard. First off lets talk about presentation. The graphics are dull. They just don't compare to other 360 titles. I would expect that if this was a port going to all consoles, but this is an exclusive. Enemies look a lot a like. Animation is poor, lighting and shadowing is non-existant. The graphics definatley feel last generation when the 360 pushes it's self as a graphic machine. Everyone looks pretty much the same. Even the ninja you create. The controls are all right. They are responsive. and pretty standard to the rest of the action adventure games on the market. However the AI has a serious curve to it. The henchmen are so easy to dispatch it ridiculous, but a boss. Forget about it. Jumping from roof top to roof top can be fun, at first, but poor level design and consistant beating of the same theme gets boring fast. The music is pretty cool, in the begining, then it become non-exsistant. The sounds are always the same Japanese dialect when you are spoted, and then it switches to english during one of the lame excuses of a cinema scene. The voice acting really isn't that great to boot. There are some good things about Tenchu. I like that you can create your own ninja, although you can't actually create one that looks too much like another Japanese guy. This isn't a bad thing if your Japanese, but if your of any other creed you can forget it. Part of what makes a game engrossing now is a deep create a player like in Elder Scrolls, Fight Night, Mortal Kombat, and Madden. This just feels tacked on. Basically the story is about the same as any other ninja movie/game on the market. Your hired to assasinate people. Fight people and get information. The plot line is rather dull. Everyone seems to be a metro sexual just like in Final Fantasy. Overall I wasn't impressed by this game and feel let down.
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