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Cast as either the male Rikimaru or the female Ayame, you are a ninja assassin hired to right the wrongs of the land. To aid you in your missions, you have access to a whole arsenal of ninja tools, including a sword, flash grenades, smoke bombs, grappling hooks, poison pills, and throwing stars. Be assured you will need every resource to fight your way through the maze of houses, gardens, forests, and castles in ancient Japan.

Your target must be eliminated at all costs, but the code of your honorable clan instructs you to harm no innocents. The wise ninja chooses his or her battles; stealth, deception, avoidance, and distraction are the tools of your trade. But sometimes combat with guards is unavoidable, and Tenchu
offers the best of both third-person action games and two-person fighting games with an interface that allows for multiple forms of attack and defense. Be warned: the animation in this game is not for the faint of heart. Blood flows freely and realistic sound effects and movie cut scenes make no attempt to hide the brutality of the assassination business. Overall a great game for fans of Japanese animation or martial arts. --Allen Stewart


Pros:

Exciting martial arts moves
Nonlinear levels--choose your own path to the target
Different moves for Rikimaru and Ayame
Use of many ninja weapons and tools

Cons:
Very gruesome violence
Occasionally awkward camera angles
Poor character voice-overs in cut scenes



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Review

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.

The name of the game is assassination. You play as one of two ninja: the scar-faced, gray clad Rikimaru or the thin La Femme Nikita type, Ayame. As in Kalisto Entertainment's fairly similar title, Nightmare Creatures, each character has his or her own unique plusses and minuses. Ayame is lightning fast and carries two short blades, while Rikimaru isn't as quick, but is very strong and wields a katana.

The goal in Tenchu is easy to comprehend, but difficult to attain. You must sneak through the various environments without being seen, assassinating your targets as they appear. The plot surrounding all of this (you're an honorable ninja, entrusted with the objectives of protecting your master, wiping out his evil enemies, and attempting to rescue his kidnapped daughter from a demon lord and his followers) keeps the game from being completely merciless, but there is, admittedly, a whole lot of killing involved. Invariably, some guard going about his rounds is going to find himself in your way, and you'll have to try to sneak up behind him and execute him. If done correctly, one of several short death animations will play, showing your character reaching around and cutting your enemy's throat, breaking his back, and so on. Without trying to come off too sadistic, this never, ever gets old.

It's the stealth of Tenchu that makes it so original and appealing. Using the R1 button, the player can hide or flatten out against every wall he or she encounters. Approaching a corner in the latter fashion will cause the game camera to swing around to see if anyone's waiting for you there, preferably with his or her back to you. But that's not the only way to set about town. Both characters are well equipped with a grappling hook and a never-ending supply of rope. When the hook is selected, the perspective goes first person and a thin, red target appears in the center of the screen. Once fired, the hook shoots forward and the player is yanked quickly along after it. What's the advantage? Running along the far less populated rooftops is a much faster, if less confrontational way of moving about. And it's extremely cool.

There are also more than a dozen tools other than the grappling hook at the player's disposal. Chosen from a finite stock at the beginning of each mission, there are such items as poison rice treats of which to paralyze dogs and guards, smoke bombs, sleeping potions, explosives, and throwing stars (which use the same targeting system as the hook).

There's surprisingly a lot of value within the game, for not being incredibly long. It's made up of ten fairly large and varied environments, which are just difficult enough to be challenging and fun, though shouldn't take too much time to beat. But, as unlikely as it may sound, the game is enjoyable enough that you'll want to play again after beating it, attempting each mission without being seen at all. If accomplished, the player gets a new and different special item per each stage, from a spell that cloaks you in a foe's image to a sleeping potion. Once that's done, you'll be motivated to try it all over again with the other character. However it's not the end result that goads you on - it's the getting there that comprises most of the fun.

While Tenchu excels in motivation and concept, it also scores a lot of points for the mood it sets. There are many little touches in the areas of graphics, sound, and design that add up to make the title really engaging. The soundtrack