Tenchu: Time of the Assassins
| Tenchu: Time of the Assassins | |
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| Developer(s) | K2 LLC |
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| Composer(s) | Noriyuki Asakura |
| Series | Tenchu |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation Portable |
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| Genre(s) | Action-adventure, stealth |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| Metacritic | 50/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Edge | 5/10 |
| Eurogamer | 3/10 |
| GamesMaster | 65% |
| OPM (UK) | 6/10 |
| PALGN | 5/10 |
| Play | 38% |
| PSM3 | 66% |
| VideoGamer.com | 3/10 |
| The Sydney Morning Herald |    |
Tenchu: Time of the Assassins (Tenchu: Shinobi Taizen (天誅 忍大全) in Japan) is an action-adventure stealth video game developed by K2 LLC and published by From Software in Japan and Sega in Europe for the PlayStation Portable in 2005. This marks the first game in the series not to be released in North America.
The game features many characters from previous Tenchu games, including some deceased from previous titles. Time of the Assassins includes a "buffed up" mission editor, first introduced in Tenchu Shinobi Gaisen.
The gameplay is like a standard Tenchu title. The player takes control of a skilled ninja assassin and sneak your way through the levels, while eliminating any opposition along the way. The game has a similar control scheme to the previous two Tenchu titles, but the game is harder to play due to the player's field of vision being hampered by a black fog.
The game also features two-player gameplay via ad-hoc, however there is no online infrastructure play in the game. Players can engage in versus and co-op modes, originally from Wrath of Heaven. Multiplayer maps that have been created can be played, as well as some pre-made ones by K2 with various objectives. Playing multiplayer or custom missions now allows the player choose most of the character from the entire Tenchu franchise thus far, including many characters who were killed off in past games.
The game revives the mission editor from Tenchu 2, now returning with even more features. Players can create their own Story Missions, or make custom multiplayer maps which the Versus and Co-op game modes can be played on. Players can save as many maps as they wanted provided they have enough memory stick space. Players can also share maps via memory stick or by uploading them to various fan sites.
One of the more prominent fansites named 'Tenchu Missions' hosts custom missions built for both the Japanese–Asian and European versions of the game. Anyone who has registered and logged in at the website can be able to either upload custom missions of their own to share with other members or download user created missions directly to their memory sticks. As of December 2007 there are roughly 60 custom missions available for download.
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