Online Games

For those who are not familiar with ninja games online, they could be generally labeled as fighting games with swords. But we would not be describing it fully, or giving it a fair chance if we where to give them the benefit of the doubt. Free games in the web have been around pretty much since the Internet went online commercially in the early nineties. In the beginning, only traditional genres existed, including action, adventure, sports, and of course fighting games. Games such as Mortal Kombat where already enjoying a large following in console systems, and made way for game developers to explore this genre online. In fact, one some of the characters in this console game follow the way of the ninja fighter.

As time went by, the Internet grew and the demand for free online games did as well. Such is the demand of online games that the ones featuring ninja fighters, all dressed for combat with swords, shuriken and kunai enjoy a niche of their own in virtual space. Generally speaking ninja games are, in the end, fighting games with swords. But some aspects of this online game genre separates them from the rest. To start, these are not fictional characters; they are traditional, real characters that existed in medieval Japan. Although they do not enjoy the high esteem of the Samurai warriors, they still hold their place in Japanese history. Therefore, when an online game developer embarks on a project to create a Ninja game of some sort, he must spend quite a bit of time researching the facts, in order to apply them to the application.

Many concerned parents may ask themselves, what kind of benefit will my children obtain by playing ninja games online, if any? One side of the coin does give way to the thought that ninja games are worthless. To manipulate characters on the screen dressed in black and swinging a sword at everything in their path to succeed is not exactly the kind of values we want to convey to our children. However, there is another aspect of ninja games that allows children to learn about the ninjas as a historic figure that really existed. Many online ninja games include an elaborated plot that goes into detail about the role of ninja fighters. Even if these stories are not all true, some details of the game are historically accurate, such as the weapons in use like the shuriken and the kunai.

The degree of violence in the game could be problem if the developer where to go into detail when the opponent is attacked with the sword. However, this is a feature that is most likely to appear on console versions, as opposed to online versions. Ninja games online are completely free, and available for anyone to play. Detailed blood spills and violent attacks not only take away computer resources, they could give the developer a bad rap. If you where to catch your children playing these games, try to weigh in all the aspects first, before making a decision to let them play or not.