With very few games these days adequately doing the stealth shtick properly, its somewhat fitting that it falls to the ninja, the original ambassador of the sneaky arts, to redeem the genre.
By the definition of the 2D plane to which it clings, Mark of the Ninja is worlds away from the diluted virtues of stealth as extolled by contemporary 3D genre efforts such as Metal Gear Solid or Splinter Cell.
Its as much the validation that stealth can work in two dimensions as it is that stealth itself doesn’t need to be the sort of watered down afterthought we see in the majority of games these days, but can instead be an open style of play that allows players to innovate with their approach as much as it does provide nail-biting tension as the result of their efforts.
Bold, compelling and dripping with gameplay possibilities, Mark of the Ninja is the purest entry in the genre to come along in sometime, if not forever.
Mark of the Ninja truly makes its stealth gameplay shine, despite being a sidescroller. How did they pull it off?
The best game Klei ever made until they went only started making early access games.
While everyone likes to play the latest shooter, and mess around in the biggest open world game, not everyone has the gaming system that's up to the task.
Fuzzy Pixels takes a look at five of the best stealth games ever made.
I know it is only an opinion but neither Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, or Tenchu: Stealth Assassins make the list?
my god who is accepting these videos? Metal Gear solid? really? Dishonored,too? No, Chaos Theory either. Such a terrible list.
So what would you say is a great stealth game, then-- Uncharted 3? Lol! If played as Kojima intended, you can finish the game without being discovered AND without a single kill.
Did you miss Chaos Theory in my comment? Kojima is a hack, a fraud and bad writer and a mediocre game designer evident by Metal Gear Solid series.
PS, far better stealth games have allowed the player to ghost through the game.
Nice review
Another great game on XBLA. This has absolutely been the best year ever for the XBLA.
This is the first game to make me miss my Xbox that I left across the border.