Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm review video (PS3)

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm for PS3Evolving the head-to-head fighting action of the Ultimate Ninja series, Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm allows players to battle in full 3D across massive environments. Players will unleash powerful jutsu attacks, perform acrobatic evasive maneuvers and even run up walls and over water as they pursue their opponent for ninja supremacy. Players will be able to customize their character’s fighting style and recruit up to two support characters to put their own stamp on the action.

Allowing players to further immerse themselves in the world of Naruto, Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm introduces all-new free-roaming exploration across the Hidden Leaf Village and the Forest of Death. Players can search every inch of these iconic environments to take on more than 100 unique missions, collect valuable scrolls and interact with additional characters from the Naruto animated series. Injecting additional variety to the game’s head-to head combat, these missions include races, special deliveries and large-scale battles against massive opponents.

The graphics are great but is this ninja nimble? Find out in this Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm video review.


Game features include:
* Each character in the game is capable of unleashing powerful Awakening abilities under certain gameplay conditions, offering new traits and talents to the game’s impressive ninja roster of 25 popular characters from the animated series.
* Taking advantage of an original next-generation graphics engine, Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Stormutilizes fluid animation, incredible visual detail and an advanced facial expression system to create high-definition graphics on the PlayStation 3 system that surpass traditional hand-drawn animation. Replicating the same environments, characters and effects as the hit animated series, this new technology allows gamers to become a part of the world of Naruto like never before.
* Features both head-to-head fighting play and single player, free-roaming worlds of exploration.

To quote the GT video review: “No game has come closer to destroying the line between pencil and pixel than Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm. But after the honeymoon’s over, the romance doesn’t last. The series is struggling for some new ideas, and this game isn’t going to be the one to provide them. Still, if you’re jonesing for some jutsu, you better believe that Storm isn’t a bad game. It’s just not a great one, either.”

Story — 7.5
Design — 7.4
Gameplay — 7.0
Presentation — 9.2
Overall — 7.5