Top Ten video game ninjas
- — 06 August, 2010 15:37
In the hallowed words of Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni: “Ninjas kick butt! Cowabunga!” We couldn’t have put it better ourselves. Ever since we were old enough to make impromptu swords out of cardboard tubes, our intense love for Ninjitsu has known no bounds. In addition to inventing pyjamas and balaclavas, they can walk on water, kill people with flying death-stars and communicate with strange beasts. What’s not to love?
Along with Nazis, zombies and Nazi-cum-zombies, ninjas are a major staple of the video game industry. Whether you’re playing an RPG or a side-scrolling beat ‘em up, you’ll usually find at least one masked martial artist thrown into the mix. They refuse to be curtailed by gravity or genre – and gaming is all the richer for it. To celebrate the announcement of Street Fighter X Tekken, we’ve collated a list of the hardest, coolest and downright sexiest ninjas ever to grace our video game screens. So sit back and watch the shadows dance!
Comments
Mac
1
He's not boring, it's the writers who have failed to give him or anyone in Virtua Fighter more of a storyline and don't be a hypocrite. The other Ninja's on your list are actually boring but you don't say anything about that do you...
"no wonder his opponents are always kicking it off – they’re trying to do him a favour!"
Get your facts straight, Kage-Maru is the most accomplished competitor in Virtua Fighter, having won both the 3rd and 4th tournaments and he’s beaten such characters like Akira Yuki (twice), Dural (who’s his mother, Tsukikage, and as Dural she has all the fighting skills and abilities of every fighter), Lau Chan and he was going to fight Shun Di at the end of VF5.
Tim
2
Geki should have been number 1. He is the coolest ninja.