Sigma. It is greatest hits 29.99.

If you really want the updated graphics you could always get it used. I got mine during a B2G1 sale at Gamestop. I think Sigma ended up being my free game because I got an extra controller and something else.

Also for what it's worth I think the 360 controller works a little better for NG than the PS3 one.

http://product.half.ebay.com/Ninja-Gaiden-Sigma_W0QQtgZinfoQQprZ56290949

$20

Half.com is always the way to go for old games

Black the camera angles are messed up they were fixed in Sigma

The story sucks indeed, which in no way makes the game worse IMO. The same way that Super Mario Galaxy doesn't need a good story to be a great game.

"Gameplay is playable" is a massive understatement though. No similar action game has such fluid controls at this playing speed and difficulty. God of War and DMC games are either slower, easier or both.

/ninja gaiden love rant

theres no comparison black is shit in comparison, everything about sigma is miles better, heck it even looks and runs better than NG2................try it your self and see, i cnt belive people are telling you to get the xbox orig when sigma is the better game.

overall its based on the same game, but ryu moves about the screen so effortlessly you just have to play it and see for your self. imo and i had the orig ages ago, sigma is plainly the better version, nobody claims otherwise except xbox fanboys, if you want the best version get sigma its very cheap now, if you want the old version get black.

http://www.destructoid.com/new-ninja-gaiden-sigma-info-ps3--30365.phtml

• *Unspecified amount of original content for Sigma
• *EVERYTHING was redone for Sigma: backgrounds, enemies, characters, animations, textures, etc.
• *Game will make use of the SIXAXIS in one way by helping to power up Ninpo magic while casting it
• *Sigma will be 19 Chapters long, 3 more Chapters than the previous 2 versions
• *A lot of the new stuff is when you are going to be playing as Rachel
• *Will run at a constant 60 FPS with full self-shadowing and in 720p
• *3 ways to play - off the disk, off a partial install, or off a full install (for those who plan to play for long periods and don't want to worry about loads times.  They wanted to give the gamer a choice on the matter)
• *New difficulty level above the previous ones
• *Still talking to Sony about what the possibilites are for downloadable content
• *Karma ranking system/online leaderboards will be intact
• *Karma ranking/leaderboards will be improved upon by letting you view the results for a player's run through for specific chapters and how many times they died, etc.

Rachel Specific

• *Features own integrated story missions and own mission mode levels
• *Anything but a new skin for Hayabusa
• *Completely separate arsenal of moves and all new animations
• *Will have a different 'feel' from Hayabusa and will require a different way of thinking to play as compared to her counterpart
• *Will still absorb essence and such as Hayabusa

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^above is just a quick lowdown of the extras, there are more.............sigma is a better game than black, but its your choice at the end of the day.

yes black camera is pig awful, sigma camera although not perfect is a much improved camera, funnily enough on gaiden 2 tecmo went back to black level camera problems. which is very stange

Well I'm not sure if this will help in your decision or not, but here's what Itagaki had to say about NG:Sigma:

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/05/21/itagaki-ninja-gaiden-sigma-is-no-good/

When asked about the game, Itagaki said simply, "It was no good." Apparently not into the whole brevity thing, CVG continued the line of questioning, prompting Itagaki to add, "Despite the fact that it's on a 'next-generation' console there's no evolution whatsoever. That was made not by me, but one of my sub-ordinates who basically tried to copy the success of Ninja Gaiden." You think that's pretty rough, right? Well get this: That guy was sitting next to him. And he was making Itagaki a fancy birthday cake. No, that stuff isn't true. But it's still fairly icy.

I need to finish up NG2, then I plan on picking up NG Black. Easy choice for me.

Ninja Gaiden Black is for the truly hardcore. If you can beat Master Ninja mode, you are truly a man! Hair will have sprouted on your chest, and a beard will have come into being on your jaw.

Even if you are a woman.

NGB because it's harder, it's cheaper, and it has more extra content that's worth a damn.

meh... That was a factor in making me want to buy Sigma... I only have like 5 PS3 games... That's also why I opened Unleashed on the PS3 instead of taking it back and getting the Wii or 360 version... and only 3 of those are mine, and I am definitely taking one of them back...

and I haven't played one of mine because it's MGS4, which I've been told in this thread:
http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=54672&page=3 by some people that you can, and by others that you can't play MGS4 witihout playing MGS 1, 2, or 3, so I might take it back

But at a similar point... I only have 9 360 games, while only 3 of them are mine...

Gahh... so hard...