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Tenchu: Stealth Assassins

All in all, Tenchu is one the best Japanese ports ever. Kudos to Activision for one of the most realistic gameplay experiences I have ever encountered. Despite some polygonal errors, I found the rest of the game to be flawless. Of all the games that I have reviewed recently, this one takes the cake. I'll be playing it for many hours to come.

With all this said I would highly recommend this game to anyone who is looking for a little action. It delivers in all the games department and is just a blast to play. If there is one bad thing to say about this game, it would be that it's over to soon. Even with it's 10 level the game can still be fairly short once you get the hang of the game. I was finished it in just a few short days, but at no point did I regret buying it instead of just renting it. Tenchu is awesome fun, and for me the bloody crimson glory made the game even more entertaining to play.

A must buy for action fans. Think of it as Metal Gear Solid in medieval Japanese setting, and you'll get the idea about Tenchu.

Tenchu is a first in many ways. It's an assassin simulator. No, it's better than that, it's a ninja simulator. Second, after so many Shinobi titles that we wanted to like more than we did (and sold back for to EB), we can actually feel good about Tenchu. Shinobi was always good, make no mistake, but Tenchu brings the assassin game to a completely new height.

Tenchu is een spel zonder genade en zonder romantiek. Het is jouw bloed of zijn bloed en wie verslapt wordt gekeeld. Geen mooie prinsesjes die gered hoeven te worden: gewoon moord op afspraak, niets meer en niets minder.

Acquire's Tenchu can easily be seen as a confluence of Eidos' Tomb Raider and Square's Bushido Blade. There is, thankfully, more originality at work here than just a direct meld of the two titles, and it delivers a better attempt at an action-packed 3D adventure than we've seen to date.

Realism in games has always been a hot issue, but Tenchu achieved the perfect mixture of realistic ninja action with accompanying elements of the fantastic. In the end, Tenchu: Stealth Assassins was a ground-breaking but problematic stealth affair that would eventually identify itself as a gaming brand name for many years to come.

This game does the feared, which is not live up to its potential. Tenchu crashes down in the fundamentals. The Graphics and ambient sounds took the day off. The gameplay is well thought out but gets tedious and difficult. The game AI is really jacked up, making it hard even on the easiest setting. You must remember though this game requires patience, thought, and of course stealth. Don't go Rambo, it only alerts every guard in the game. I'd have to say more should have been done graphically. Some things left you feeling, "man this is not done right". What we fear the most, are the small graphic errors, and certain gameplay factors. Which do effect the game, leaving it with a "half-baked" aura.