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Impressive Graphics but Audio Needs Work

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 25 / 30
Date: July 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Naruto began as a manga series which then became anime - and now it's a Playstation 2 fighting game. The graphics are quite impressive!

As with most fighting games, you begin with only a few characters and unlock more as you go. It unlocks items pretty quickly as you go - but unfortunately there aren't that many total characters for you to work with. There are 12 characters plus 2 modified characters (different forms of existing characters). Each person has his or her own support character.

I was really quite impressed by the graphics. It's not that they are photo-realistic - it's more like you are playing in a well drawn, artistic, smooth anime world. The shadows in the dusky treehouse area, the harsh brightness of the industrial area, each location has an integrated appearance. You can switch back and forth between some locations on command. The water has small ripples, the background items are often destructable.

When you perform actions, you get little "Japanese motion symbols" just as you would see in a manga. The cloud motion, light flares, shading are all done with a drawing style. It is really impressive to compare this with early fighting games to see just how far we've come from 'blocks of pixels moving' to a visual experience.

Unfortunately, the sound is just not up to the same quality level. The background noises get INCREDIBLY repetitive after only a few minutes. You're almost tempted to turn down (or off) the sound and play with your own music playing. Not only do the phrases get said thousands of times in a row - but some of the Japanese words are clearly mispronounced.

The fighting action is rather fun - surely by now fighting games have perfected the interactivity part of the game. You get a number of styles, and in addition to the quick-memorized button mashing portion, there is a high powered attack that involves both characters doing a quick combination of keys to perform the higher powered action.

The unlocking portion of the game is both fun and extremely tedious. It's fun because you can unlock hundreds of items - every single sound clip, every single video clip, etc. etc. If there's something you want to review, you can get it into your library. On the other hand, you would have to play for months to get enough points to unlock them all, and it's a random chance of what you get to see for a given unlocking.

Still, that's a minor complaint. All of those unlocked libraries are just extra, anyway. The main part of the game - the fighting - is quite fun and if you're a Naruto fan, there's not much more you could hope for from this. Enjoy!

kids review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is sick! You can be Orochimaru and cursed seal lv. 1 Sasuke and others! Neji's my favorite! I got to chunin level so far in the mission mode. I hope that there's going to be a sequel coming to america! Japan already has three!

Amazing!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Since i'm a fan of the Naruto anime, I just picked this game up. It is wonderful, almost every aspect of this game is perfect. 6 characters and 8 secret characters, keep the game pace good. A bunch unlockable bonuses, such as figures and pictures, which means even though you might have all the characters, you still have a lot of extras to collect. The action is what keeps this at awesome pace, it recaptures the amazing action of the Naruto series, but at times makes it better.While there are so many good things about this game there are a few things, holding this back from full potential. When you do the missions (not the character scenarios) you always have mission conditions like defeat the opponent in 20 seconds, I like this, but I just wish there was one mission where you don't have any conditions, except win, I am not trying to complain, but this seems a bit annoying after a while. Multiplayer is fun and fast paced. The cel-shaded graphics are great. The attacks are cool, but each character is limited to a few attacks, and the characters secret techniques are sometimes to easy to use, all you have to do is press triangle button how many times you depending on how much chakra you have, and then attack them when they are unguarded, and the techniques are very powerful which means it is easy to kill your foe. Though there are a few problems this game is still amazing and probably the best Naruto game, so far.

Unbelieveably Awesome!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game has the best graphics, the best moves, and some of the best characters in naruto! The support characters feature is outstanding since with neji and tenten, i'm unbeatable! The controls are ligthning fast and easy to learn. It might take some time time fully memorize them. The shraingan, byakugan, and lee's celestial gates, the jutsus, make the the game seem like your in the anime and manga! I hope to see the seqeuls come to america!

Truly a great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: July 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is my 2nd favorite PS2 Game ever (the first being One Piece Grand Battle) You can play as 14 characters, and you have more variety than in Clash of Ninja. I like Ultimate Ninja better.

Unlocked Characters:

Naruto Uzumaki
Sasuke Uchiha
Sakura Haruno
Kakashi Hatake
Rock Lee
Shikamaru Nara

Locked Characters:

Neji Hyuga
Hinata Hyuga
Haku
Zabuza Momochi
Gaara
Orochimaru
Cursed Marked Sasuke
Kyubi Naruto

There are also 12 different stages. (did I mention you can switch mid-combat?)

Each character have multilevel super attacks with different strengths that can eliminate more than half of an enemy's life bar in a single maneuver.

Overall, this is a very good game.

Way better than CoN and like SSM. This game is hot!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: July 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Gameplay: Naruto Ultimate Ninja has a similar style to Super Smash Bros. Melee. When you start the game, it may be a little difficult to keep up, so I recommend for you to practice first. In the game you can pick up alot of items for different functions, some for attacking, other for health and some for effects. You also fight in two planes, each time you change the plane, you recover health. There are alot of combos, more than dbz budokais, maybe except dbz budokai 3, and way more than Naruto CoN.
The variety of characters aint so diverce, but its still good. In game, you can select Story Mode, Mission Mode, Free Play and Versus, plus the shop, were you can buy alot of items, including clothes, music, clips, toys and trading cards. Remember I told you guys there were 14 characters? Well here they are: Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Lee, Kakashi, Shikamaru, Neji, Hinata, Haku, Zabuza, Gaara, Orochimaru , Naruto Kyubi and Sasuke Cursed Marked. There are more than 6 supers and 7 in some cases, there are 3 styles for the supers, first form, second form, and third form, which is the most powerful one.
There are button combos to perform the supers, if you fail in attacking then it will damage less, if you fail in defending, it will damage you normally.

Graphics: Graphics are like SSBM, sometimes better when you enter the fighting cut-scenes.

Sound: For those who love the jap. ver., I recommend to skip all the Naruto parts. For those who watch it in english then you'll have no problem.

Value: The game is worth the $40. But if you're not a Naruto fan, then I recommend you rent it first.

Overral: Great game, not so much characters, alot of awesome combos, cool game modes, good graphics and a big divercity of items. Naruto UN is definately worth the Naruto title.

THE BEST GAME EVER !!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game when it first came out. I beat it in 3 days! What i cant figure out is how to get curse marked sasuke and nine tailed fox naruto. Even if you are not a fan you should still play it or rent it

A Fighting Game Legend of the Year

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ok this is one of the best fighting games ever,buy the game.
the only problem was that there was not a lot of fighting techniques.there was a reasonable ammount of characters but there is bound to be more in Naruto:UltimateNinja2
anyway,this was a really cool game I beat it in less than a day!

Naruto Ultimate Ninja

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my grandsons. When they played it, they called with such excitement to thank me over and over for this marvelous game. Their words were, "this is Soooo cool, awesome, and, the ultimate"....just to name a few. They invited their friends over to share the excitement! Thanks....

Ummm... is it just me?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I just don't think this game does justice to the show or the manga. The graphics are pretty good, but the game's overall design reminded me of a certain Inuyasha game for PS2. Also, the audio is even worse than most people admit (I fought the urge to press mute for most of the gameplay).

I've probably just been spoiled by the DBZ Budokai games (whose concept is way better) and I guess I wanted something more out of the story mode. Anyhow, it might just be a bad mood, but I never expected to want my money back.

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