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a great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 42
Date: March 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

if you like ninja games this is the game for you.You can swim and breath through a bamboo pole.and new dalight missons.

Think of it as Rikimaru's Revenge

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: July 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I would've given this game a 4 star rating, but you can create your own missions! If you like stealth games like Metal Gear Solid, then this is for you. You can be two Ninjas....Rikimaru(boy) and Ayame (girl). Your goal is to keep away from the guards....and kill them without anyone noticing. You can use 22 Ninja Items, some magical (Vanishing Tree makes you disappear to another place in a flash of leaves), some not(Grappling Hook anyone?). Rikimaru is armed with a deadly Katana and Ayame two daggers. You can do front flips,and back flips, and you can creep along walls. You can crouch so the enemy doesn't see you, and you can breath underwater with the help of a bamboo pole. One of the best features of this game is the 1-hit Stealth kill. If you can manage to run up behind an enemy without them noticing, you can kill them silently. Overall a great game, but a little bloody.

The Great has become the Best.....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 19
Date: July 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

In Tenchu 2 you use many Ninja style weapons some that were in the original game, others that are new like flaming arrows. You use stealth to sneak up on your enemy and kill him/her without them knowing what hit them! The game is really bloody for some this might be great for others it might not be all that good. Tenchu 2 comes with a new feature the mission editor, in the mission editor you can create your own levels and place enemies within the levels! It's a great feature that makes an already great game even better. All together the game has 29 levels, 3 playable characters (the two Ninja characters that were in the original game and a new Ninja character),22 weapons, a mission editor, and many hours of fun. For those of you who like games that are based on stealth this is a game you can't pass up!

A prequel to one of PlayStation's best adventure games.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: August 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Tenchu 2:Birth of the Stealh Assassins is a kind of game which leaves you craving for more long after you have fineshed it. It is a game with a lot of depth and playability.

First off, this game is a prequel to the original Tenchu. It's story is about Rikimaru and Ayame - the two ninjas 'adopted' by the Lord Godha. There is also has a third ninja named Tatsumaru who fights alongside with the two of them. This explains the story of what happened to Tatsumaru, how all 3 ninjas protected their Lord from traitors and also how Rikimaru got his famous eye-scar.

It has around 25 levels (making it 15 more than the first game), with different levels for each of the 3 characters. However, if you're not happy with the levels in the game, you can create your own level. That's right, you can place walls, buildings, trees, bushes and other countless objects to perform your assassination in. You can even place guards and design what their pattern of walking will be. You can also make the mission peramiter, like assassination of a person, an escort to keep someone alive, elimate all guards, etc.

The game has improved gameplay-wise also. You can now swim in the water and even use a bamboo reed to breathe through it to remain unnoticed. You also have lots of new ninja gadjets to use, like a blowgun, invisibility and different kinds of shurikens. Yes, the game is still very bloody and realistic. But the game is not trying to be some kind of head-blowing, mindless slashing. You must still remain unseen by the guards and be very careful when you commit your 'cold blooded honor'. Overall, this is a definite buy for your PlayStation. I liked it very much and I suggest you give it a try.

IT ROCKS! IT RULES!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: August 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I couldn't believe Tehchu 2 did come out a week early. So, I rushed to the store to get this baby. Well, if you like the first one, you don't want to miss this one. If you don't own the first one, buy that one first (it's cheaper) :).Tenchu 2 is pretty much the same as the first one. But now, you can drag your fallen enemies into the dark or search their bodies for goodies. And there are more stealth-kill moves. The whole area map is not given before-hand, so you will get lost for some time. And there is a story with cool FMV's! Other than that, it is still the good old Tenchu. So, get it and hide-and-kill. And "I WILL SEE YOU IN HELL!" (Onikage, Tenchu 1998)

Originality: 4 <=> Graphics: 4 <=> Sound: 5 <=> Game Play: 5 <=> Replay Value: 5 <=> (Out of 5)

A soon to be Classic!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: August 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I was blown away when i first started playing. New moves, new weapons, a whole lot more variety when it comes ot stealtn fatalities. The graphics are very good, and the enemies are creative and quite entertaining. If you like violence then this is for you. More blood, and death then ever. If you liked Tenchu, then you will surely be astonished by what Tenchu 2 has to ofter. In my mind tha greates game in it's genre.

This game rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: August 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Well I played and beat the first tenchu game and i can say that this game is 10 times better. It gives you the life of a ninja in feudal japan close up and personal. THe death scenes are very realistic (if not overly bloody) but the stealth is the best part by far. The stealth aspect is done better than metal gear solid, (although i dont think a games story can ever compare to metal gear) so all and all i am very impressed with this game.

almost perfect

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Tenchu 2 is excellent in many ways. Like the original, the stealth portion is the main draw of the game. However, the enemy AI in Tenchu 2 improves on the original without resorting to cheap sightings by enemies (a problem in the original). The level design is well done, making the levels seem much more like whole environments instead of blocks layed down by a designer. In fact, just about everything is perfect in this game. Unfortunately, the one blemish is the level editor. This was the main reason I bought the game, as it has the potential to significantly raise the replay value. But, don't be fooled into thinking that this feature allows you to design a level like the ones you play in the game. You are very limited in what you can do. The maps are limited to 32X32 square sizes, which is much smaller than any level in the game. Elevation differances are limited to 4 different levels (not counting water), which means you can't make significantly different floors or high mountains. It still is fully possible to make fun levels, but this and other faults dissapoint the level-editing experience. Still, this is a fun game, and it should be experienced by every playstation owner.

The Best Can Get Better

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'm a hardcore Tenchu fan and I was counting the days until the release of Tenchu 2 but what I got was twice of what I expected. The original Tenchu was great and anyone new to the game might want this first to see if they like it but overall Tenchu 2 is the better game. To put it in perspective for people familiar with the series think of Tenchu with a real storyline, better levels, loads of cutscenes, a mission editor and the fixed the little problem of when you're in a stealth kill the Ki meter doesn't work so now you can keep tabs on whether a hidden enemy has seen you take out his/her buddy. This is a must have for stealth, Tenchu and ninja game fans.

The controls are horrible

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game has great looking graphics and the story is captivating; however, the controls for the characters are very twitchy. You can't adjust them either. This is one of those games where you are given a selection of configuration A, B, or C, so basically there is no way of fixing the controlls. The character cannot strafe and turn at the same time, which is very important if you want to keep you eyes on you opponent. Then there is this weird, wall clinging move that the character does. the problem with it is that sometimes he will not do it when you want him to and, of course, do it when you don't. When the character gets into a battle, he always manages to turn his back on his opponent. You can try your best to keep the "bad guy" in front of you, but these "expert" ninjas always turn their backs on their opponents as if they want to die(it's very aggravating). Even with all this aggravation, the most IRRITATING thing about this game is the way "bad guys" seem to drop from the sky. You can check an area out thoughly and know for certain that the area is clear, then suddenly a "bad guy" just appears. I'm not talking about walking up on you, that does happen, but that's normal. I'm talking about characters just vaporizing right beside you. Honestly, I wonder if they even tested this game before they released it. I could program a game better than this.

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