GamesRadar+ Verdict
Pros
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Fast
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button-breaking combat
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Bright
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slick graphics
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Fan-service
Cons
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Fewer characters than on PS2
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Gets tough
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Long loads
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Aug 29, 2007
You’ll be forgiven if you feel like you’ve played this orange-clad ninja beatdown before: it’s a stripped-down port of the PS2 brawler Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2, which was itself only slightly tweaked from the firstUltimate Ninja which came out just last year. So yes: if you’ve played one of these “3D characters in 2D worlds” bash-a-thons – or the Smash Brothers games they’re clearly styled after – you should be right at home. Which is good, because then you can get straight to the really rather nicely crafted face-kicking.
This is flat-out one-on-one combat, plain and simple. Well, okay: it’s simple, but not too plain. All of the 20 characters – down from 30 in Ultimate 2 - are mystical ninja of one kind or another. So, your base selection of punches, kicks, thrown weapons and guard breaks are complemented by flashy, “jutsu” moves – like, for instance, when Sakura spawns a giant-sized spirit clone of herself with fireball eyes and a tendency to smash her enemies under its mammoth open palm.
More info
Genre | Fighting |
Description | If you like your fighting games full of licensed anime characters bashing one another's 3D ninja teeth in, look no further than this. |
Franchise name | Naruto |
UK franchise name | Naruto |
Platform | "PSP" |
US censor rating | "Teen" |
UK censor rating | "Rating Pending" |
Release date | 1 January 1970 (US), 1 January 1970 (UK) |