Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm
From the media released so far for the game, Ultimate Ninja Storm retains much of same gameplay from the Ultimate Ninja series, such as having the same controls as the previous installments. However, the game setting will be in 3D instead of the usual 2D background.

It has been confirmed in an interview with the game's director Hitoshi Matsuyama that the game will not feature online play, but will have some downloadable content.

In words of Hitoshi Matsuyama, "Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm will break the barrier between anime and video game.

A downloadable demo of the game was released through Episode 2 of Sony's Qore service on July 3rd, and is now also available to all PlayStation Network users. The demo allows you to play as Naruto Uzumaki and Kakashi Hatake, and also allows the player to choose either the English or the Japanese voicecasts.

A new feature during battle is the "mash" mode. If both players activate their special move at the same time they go into mash mode. During mash, both characters will have to press the corresponding buttons as fast as possible in order to knock out their opponent.

Another new feature is "Awakening Mode". While similar to the transformations of the previous Ultimate Ninja titles, this mode can only be activated when a character has less than 1 health meter remaining. The moment a characters' health drops below approximately 1 bar the chakra meter receives an "Awakening Lamp". Building a characters chakra to MAX and continuing to build chakra will light the lamp and enable Awakening Mode, making the character significantly more powerful with a new/extended move list and look (ex. "One Tailed Naruto Mode") or merely raise their parameters / grant new abilities (ex. Kakashi's "Sharingan Mode" auto substitution). Ultimate Ninja Storm will have free roaming similar to Naruto: Rise of a Ninja.

=Playable characters=

Here are the 25 playable characters in Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm.

Ultimate Jutsu: Naruto's Ninja Handbook, Vermillion Rasengan
 * Naruto Uzumaki- One-Tailed Fox

Ultimate Jutsu: The Great Sakura
 * Sakura Haruno-(Inner Sakura)

Ultimate Jutsu: Cursed Mark Chidori, Chidori Lament
 * Sasuke Uchiha-(Sharingan) (Curse Mark Second Stage Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Lightning Blade: Double Lightning Quake
 * Kakashi Hatake-(Sharingan)

Ultimate Jutsu: Leaf Burning Sky, Hidden Lotus, Drunken Eight Barrage
 * Rock Lee-(Eight Chakra Gates) (Drunken Fist)

Ultimate Jutsu: Eight Trigram Sixty-four Palms
 * Neji Hyuga-(Byakugan)

Ultimate Jutsu: Ninja Tools: Multi-Blade Chaos, (Summoning Technique) (Twin Rising Dragons)
 * Tenten-(Ninja Tool Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: One Own's Rule, Hidden Lotus
 * Might Guy-(Eight Chakra Gates)

Ultimate Jutsu: Parasitic Insects: Pupa
 * Shino Aburame-(Destruction Bug Host Technique)

Ultimate Jutsu: Wolf Fang Over Fang
 * Kiba Inuzuka-(Food Pill Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Protective Eight Trigrams 64 Palms
 * Hinata Hyuga-(Byakugan)

Ultimate Jutsu: Giant Sand Burial
 * Gaara- (Brutal Sand Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Summoning: Blade Dance
 * Temari-(Heavenly Fan Dance Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Puppet Show: Secret Black Move Iron Maiden
 * Kankuro-(Puppet Dance Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Sage Power
 * Jiraiya-(Sannin Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Evil Giant
 * Orochimaru-(Sannin Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Genji Dance, Cursed Mark Level 2: Bracken Dance w/ Dance of the Clematis: Flower
 * Kimimaro-(Curse Mark Second Stage Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Legendary Herculean Strength
 * Tsunade-(Sannin Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Reaper Death Seal
 * Third Hokage-(Hokage Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Ninja Art - Inundated with Flowers
 * Ino Yamanaka(Hundred Scattered Flowers Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Super Expansion Jutsu, Pegasus Wing w/Butterfly Bomb
 * Choji Akimichi-(Expansion Jutsu) (Butterfly Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Ninja Art: Shadow Strangle Jutsu
 * Shikamaru Nara-(Strategy Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Water Style: Grand Water Excavation
 * Kisame Hoshigaki-(Shark Skin Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Tsukuyomi
 * Itachi Uchiha-(Mangekyo Sharingan, Tsukuyomi Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Dead Soul Jutsu
 * Kabuto Yakushi-(Super Recovery Mode)

Support Characters
Jutsu: Ninja Art: Poison Fog
 * Shizune

Jutsu: Flying Thunder Jutsu
 * Anko Mitarashi

Jutsu: Flying Sparrow Thrust
 * Asuma Sarutobi

Jutsu: Genjutsu: Haze
 * Kurenai Yuhi

Jutsu: Summoning Jutsu: Rashomon
 * Sakon and Ukon

Jutsu: Spiral Spider Web
 * Kidomaru

Jutsu: Demon Flute: Phantom Wave
 * Tayuya

Jutsu: Earth Style: Sphere of Graves
 * Jirobo

Jutsu: Secret Wood Style Jutsu: Deep Forest Emergence
 * Hashirama Senju

Jutsu: Water Style: Water Wall
 * Tobirama Senju

Links
Official English Website