Microsoft have today revealed that downloadable costumes will be released for Ninja Gaiden II in July.

The first of the 3 costume pack designs has been revealed today. This will be exclusively available in selected countries to 39,000 gamers on launch day as part of pre-sale or launch promotions with specific European retail partners. Look for more details on other two designs and specific country promotions to be revealed in the coming weeks. Go to xbox.com/ng2 or your favorite retailer to pre-order Ninja Gaiden II today!"
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XBOX360Fanboy has known for some time that Ninja Gaiden 2 will be releasing on June the 3rd, but some of the game's finer details have been a bit under wraps. In an article in Famitsu (kindly translated by folks over at the Ninja Fortress boards and reposted at NeoGAF) there is some more details on the game's changes and tweaks. There's tons of little tidbits, but some of the biggest ones are more revealing, like the fact that some gamers have beaten the game's beta version in 15 hours (difficulty wasn't mentioned.)
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DZ write: "[The game contains] very graphic violence and bloody gore with Ryu's weapons sending body parts flying through the air and onto the walls and the ground, with blood splattering beside them.

Weapons in the game are also detailed, with the BBFC commenting that Ryu gathers various weapons as the game progresses, including a sword, nunchucks, bow & arrow, twin swords, a scythe, metal claws and so on.

Finally, a cutscene from the game is revealed, with the BBFC stating that the game also contains a 'cutscene' in which a female character bathes in blood and talks to Ryu with her breasts and buttocks visible."
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NG writes: " Vigoorian Flails work differently then in the previous version.

There are 8 main weapons to work with.

Path of the Acolyte will be very easy, but still be enjoyable.

The Fiend's Bane Bow can be charged, but the game is very fast already, so you can fire noncharged shots very quickly too.

People tend to have the wrong idea of an action game where enemies are punching bags rather then actual enemies. That's just stupid.

The military starts to experiment with bioweapons and fuses humans with mummies and such to give them partially immortality. Those bioweapons are needed for the ultimate weapon. They are called CIWS (Close Defense Weapon System), but I can't say more without revealing spoilers.

Eclipse Scythe's early level 1 movements were very harsh, but we've made it more harsh then ever with the new added moves in the higher levels. This will go with all weapons in this game. Every weapon has it's own way of fighting and they become more clear the higher their levels are. We also upgraded the Shuriken from what it usually was. Instead of throwing 4 Shurikens in a row, it's 5 now. It's a minor change, but might become useful.

The Gatling Speargun is still very useful in water, but it becomes more useful on land now.

The water is more interesting.
Actual waves of water affect your way of walking on it.
Gaja, the longtailed bone fiends you could find in the GDC demo, are amphibious, they can swim in the water.
They swim like snakes. If you make movement in water, the waves actually make them move differently.

In Helena's ending you see someone die by Ryu's dark Ninpo, that Ninpo will be in this game. That was not Victor Donova by the way, it was just a junior Executive. Donovan still lives and the story WILL continue. Donovan is much more ugly then the guy who died.

Art of the Pheonix Fire ...
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DZ write: "The BBFC has revealed they have rated the upcoming release of Ninja Gaiden 2, and have decided to tag the game with an 18 rating. This is the highest rating the series has got since its debut. According to the BBFC the work was passed with no cuts made.

In the past the board chose to give both Ninja Gaiden Black and Ninja Gaiden Sigma a 15 when they rated those games. PEGI also gave the original Xbox title a '16' back in 2004."
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"The ever watchful folks over at 360Sync recently spotted a new Ninja Gaiden II standee at their local GameStop. At first glance it appears to be nothing more than your typical standee, but look closer and you can see glory. Yes, that is a Ninja Gaiden II Xbox 360" writes xbox360fanboy.com
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Microsoft today announced the release date for Ninja Gaiden II, in development by Team Ninja and exclusive to the Xbox 360. It'll be available across Europe from 6th June for an estimated retail price of £44.99.
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Starting life over at the DOATEC forums, there was this list of possible Ninja Gaiden II achievements featuring a total of 51 different goals, 19 of which are secret. Considering the origin of these (forum posting) we're gonna be safe and call these rumors. Especially when the achievements just seems so ... achievable. One would think that Team Ninja would want to tear its players a new one with such an opportunity as this, and yet if these are true they don't seem all that hard. They wouldn't be totally out of place though, considering that they reference Crystal Skulls (which have been seen in screens before), plus the easier ones are fewer points and the harder ones are vice versa. You decide readers, the full list can be found after the break.
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Microsoft announced today that European sales for the Xbox 360 have more than doubled due to the recent adjustment of the retail price, "significantly broadening the console's audience" it says.
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Jereme Puik from XboxFocus.com writes:

"Circuit City is giving gamers something good to eat if you don't like waiting 6 months for the new Legendar map pack to become free on Xbox Live. If you are solely interested in Ninja Gaiden II which releases later this year, you can pre-order it at Circuit City. Circuit City will give you a code that you can use to download the Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack that is now available. Circuit City has always been known for some great deals and this is one of them. Don't pass this up if I were you. Your redeem code will be sent to your email within a week, so you can expect to have some fun with thsoe maps on no time."
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Microsoft and Team Ninja released these 2 artworks and a cutscene video of Ninja Gaiden 2, unveiling Ryu's new female friend called Sonia. No doubt, this is a Team Ninja game!
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Via CVG: Tecmo's ultra-violent Xbox 360-exclusive Ninja Gaiden 2 releases in Europe on June 6.
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Microsoft has finally put a date on its promised Xbox Live Marketplace demo of Ninja Gaiden II, which will apparently be hitting its servers some time in May. The demo was announced at the company's Game Developers Conference keynote last month, but all we've got since is a video of some bloke playing it. Supposedly, according to the website blurb, the demo comprises of a single level which has you "guide Ryu on his mission to avenge his clan," ... » Read More

A new post on the official website for Team Ninja's Ninja Gaiden II (X360) reveals that a demo for the game will hit Xbox Live sometime in May.
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Videogaming247 is reporting that Ninja Gaiden II will have a Ninja Cinema feature, that will allow players to take movies of their games and upload them to Xbox Live.
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Ninja Gaiden® 2 makes its long-awaited debut on Xbox 360 as the blockbuster action-packed sequel to Ninja Gaiden®. Ninja Gaiden 2 features a new and improved game engine, developed from the ground up exclusively for Microsoft and Xbox 360 by Team Ninja and legendary game developer Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of the famed Dead or Alive franchise.
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Play.com let slip dates for a bunch of titles including Fable 2, Ghostbusters, Prototype, Ninja Gaiden II, and The Bourne Conspiracy.

The dates:
- Fable 2: May 30
- Ghostbusters: September 26
- Prototype: June 27
- The Bourne Conspiracy: June 27
- Ninja Gaiden II: March 28
- Iron Man: May 30
- WALL-E: May 4
- Lego Batman: "sometime in September"
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After the deluge of great games that were released in 2007, you might think that this year's crop of titles are destined to underwhelm when compared to the likes of Bioshock, Halo 3, Call of Duty 4, Super Mario Galaxy, and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. However, a number of high profile games scheduled for release over the coming months should have gamers everywhere doing the pee-pee dance in anticipation, giving 2007 a run for it's money as the best year of video games ever.
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Microsoft have officially confirmed that Ninja Gaiden II, which has passed OFLC classification with a rating of MA 15+, will be entirely uncut for the Australian market.
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Ninja Gaiden II has managed to do what its older brother, Ninja Gaiden Black, couldn't and pass classification in Australia.
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