For anyone that's played Ninja Gaiden and knows how fun and challenging the AI can be (some even call it hard), DMC3 is absolutely nothing like that. The enemies in DMC3 are completely stupid and your attacks are extremely limited. The gameplay in DMC3 is more like the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles beatem up game, where you just have stupid ugly drones come at you in waves and you just mash on the buttons to defeat them. There's no requirement like Ninja Gaiden to constantly block and roll and time your attacks. You just shoot and slash mindlessly with Devil May Cry 3 and the enemies all just die like cannon fodder. In Ninja Gaiden if you just run straight into fights without blocking rolling and jumping you will get slaughtered. In DMC3 you just constantly use the same attack button and don't have to think at all because the AI is so dumb and easy. The combat in this game is very repetitive and requires no thinking or skill whatsoever. My immediate thought and what I told people who I spoke to about the game at E3 was that the game would be totally unacceptable for anyone who has played Ninja Gaiden now. Ninja Gaiden raised the bar for the genre in gameplay expectations. The mindless gameplay in DMC3 and other action games might be a little bit forgivable if the game at least had amazing graphics but this was the ugliest PS2 game at E3 that I saw.