Naruto ultimate ninja (Naruto: Ultimate Ninja (PS2))

Member Name: minhhon

Product:	Naruto: Ultimate Ninja (PS2)
Date:	10/08/07 (113 review reads)
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Advantages: for Naruto's fan

Disadvantages: uhm . . . not for everyone

Naruto, name of the manga from Japan talk about the little ninja boy name Naruto has become more and more popular in all over the world. As well as its anime, the games also attract lots of fans, appear on different consoles. Naruto: Ultimate Ninja on PS2 is very interesting with many inproments: Eye-catching 3D graphic, fighting system and methods.

Obviously, who was the fan of Naruto will love to see their lovely characters on this new version. As they had expected, all of the character in manga is there: Naruto little boy with orange hair, Kakashi- the tricky, mysterious teacher, Sasuke-Naruto’s friend as well as rival, Sakura- Naruto’s puppy love and many others ninjas. Also, as the game go on, you can open some new characters such as Haku, Zabuza and Orochimaru by finish the story mode with each of main characters. Namco Bandai also add two new characters that you only know when start playing.

The fighting methods in Naruto:U.N. quite similar to other game such as Super smash Bros or Power Stone. However, the ninja’s world has its own depth. Each character has the basic button to make the normal moves and combine them to do the special attack. You can moves very fast suddenly, charge chakra, throw dart, shuriken, set a mine (special one) or even running on the wall or water. You can also dodge a dangerous attack and cost lost of chakra by replacing your position with some other objects (normally a piece of wood) or make double jumping in the air. As well as shuriken and dart, you can throw some poison to make your enemy slower for a while, unable to jump or run out of chakra, then you can make your moves. Especially, the game allow fighter to move between space just in no time making it difficult to find attacking your enemy or dodging their attack. They can be up on the tree throw darts toward you or throw a smoke bomb and appear right behind you.

Moreover, in the match each ninja has a company; they are hiding somewhere waiting for your command. You can call them out to distract enemy before making a special move and make sure that they’ll get hit. Chakra is kind of your magic point and when it’s full, you can do stronger and more affective attacks.

In the story mode, you will play like in the manga, doing some misson, going to another country.It’s fun but quite tough actually, like ‘you have to defeat him/her in 3 minutes’, complete the misson with more than 50% health point…but if you don’t like it much just change to the versus match, can be player vs com or player vs player. In addition, after finishing a misson or a match, you’ll receive some cash. These cash is for buying some special equipment, upgrade or learn new technique…from the candy shop-like ^^.

Characters in game move freely and I’m sure that’s make you satisfied, especially when flying in the air, making your moves or running on the wall and suddenly disappear. As well as this, game’s interface seems to be smooth while choosing stage, character or moving between different mode and between different spaces in the fight. However, martial art looks wonderful in every angle which is really impressive. The graphic looks so good when you make a millions punches kick the enemy to fly in the air. And make sure your volume is max cause the music is so nice and this is a fight!!

As the fighting game, it won't be able to last for long and just when you want to relax, have a match or something, so, have fun!!

Thank you for reading.

Summary: a good game but won't last for long.