Hokage's Room

Everyone is excited about Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm!  And who can blame them?  This is the most beautiful video game based on an anime that I've ever seen.  CyberConnect 2 developed a new pixel shading engine that makes the animation look more fluid than ever before.







As you can tell, the game is going to rock out loud as far as graphics go.  But it's not just the graphics!  The game does more than just blur the lines between anime and video game - it shatters the line.

Unlike the previous incarnations of Ultimate Ninja, the battle area will be fully explorable instead of being a forced into a flat fighting space like typical fighting games.





You can explore the entire Leaf Village like never before!

And as if that weren't enough, they've improved the jutsus!  To perform jutsus in the past, you had an endless sequence of buttons to press to judge the strength - but now you can actually press enough to gain "success" in jutsu completion.  Furthermore, there's a visible meter at the bottom of the screen to show whether or not the jutsu will be strong or weak (none of this having to glance at both players completed button presses before they disappear).







And best of all, now there are two ultimate jutsus that you can perform in a battle instead of just one!









And check out the characters you can play as:

• Naruto Uzumaki
• Sasuke Uchiha
• Sakura Haruno
• Kakashi Hatake
• Rock Lee
• Neji Hyuga
• Tenten
• Might Guy
• Shikamaru Nara
• Choji Akimichi
• Ino Yamanaka
• Kiba Inuzuka
• Shino Aburame
• Hinata Hyuga
• Gaara
• Kankuro
• Temari
• Orochimaru
• Jiraiya
• Tsunade
• Third Hokage
• Itachi Uchiha
• Kisame Hoshigaki
• Kabuto Yakushi
• Kimimaro Kaguya

But wait!  There's more!  In Ultimate Ninja 3 you were able to summon beasts and fight against them.  But if both people summon, the summon beasts can ALSO fight it out.  Expect for some very LARGE scale battles to take place.




There's one final improvement on the battle engine that I want to touch on, and that's teaming up.  That's right, the teams help each other instead of switch out between battles.  If you're playing as Naruto and your opponent has you in a beat down and you can't get out, you can call in Sakura or Sasuke to assist and get your opponent off your back.







All of these features will make this game will be the greatest Naruto video game ever created.

Pre-order today!