Ninja Gaiden, the 2004 Xbox game, has been re-released at least two times so far with Black and Sigma, but with PS Vita right around the corner a third re-release of the popular ninja series is almost done, though originally thought to be Ninja Gaiden 3 that would be released on the handheld. Coming February, in Japan, and shortly before the North American PS Vita console release, Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus expands upon the already plentiful additions of the PS3 version.
Everyone became very much excited to hear Yosuke Hayashi, the Team Ninja head, say that – “We’ve received a PlayStation Vita system and are thinking about it”, at Gamescom 2011. Team Ninja had already planned their release of Ninja Gaiden 3 for PS3 by 2012 and now since they have the PS Vita system in their cluthces, they are strongly considering the fact of bringing a Ninja Gaiden game to the Vita system users.
Team Ninja starts the E3 party today with the official E3 teaser of the up and coming Ninja Gaiden III. Last word on Ninja Gaiden III was that Team Ninja was looking to re invent their franchise and introduce some new things to the table. Thats easy to say with a sequel, everyone expects new offerings. Instead I think Ninja Gaiden III will be geared towards more of a westernized audience and make the game more approachable.
Team Ninja has announced Ninja Gaiden III at the Tokyo Game Show, with the next instalment in the action series now confirmed to be in development. This will be the first game in the Ninja Gaiden series to not have the involvement of Tomonobu Itagaki, who left Team Ninja shortly after Ninja Gainden II was released.
More recently, Team Ninja worked on the well-received, highly-successful Metroid: Other M which is very much a re-imagining of Samus Arans classic adventures.
The latest unveiling of video footage from this upcoming Wii title is nothing short of beautiful. I have been a Metroid fan since the SNES era, and enjoyed everyone since. Where Prime was a divergence from the side-scroller style this iteration will be diverging once again by be a far more action-oriented shooter, in a way it’s going back to it’s roots. This is coming from Team Ninja, those more known for there Ninja Gaiden and the Dead or Alive series of games. It’s quite interesting to see how some of those elements carried over into the world of Metroid.
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