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.

Jutsu: Demon Wind Shuriken & Rasengan
 * Naruto Uzumaki - One-Tailed Fox

Ultimate Jutsu: Naruto's Ninja Handbook, Vermillion Rasengan

Jutsu: Booby Trap & 'This Fairy Tale is Real'
 * Sakura Haruno - (Inner Sakura)

Ultimate Jutsu: The Great Sakura

Jutsu: Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu, Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu, & Chidori
 * Sasuke Uchiha - (Sharingan) (Curse Mark Second Stage Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Cursed Mark Chidori, Chidori Lament

Jutsu: Lightning Blade, Earth Style: Fanged Pursuit Jutsu, Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu, & Water Style: Water Shark Boom Jutsu
 * Kakashi Hatake - (Sharingan)

Ultimate Jutsu: Lightning Blade: Double Lightning Quake

Jutsu: Leaf Hurricane & Primary Lotus
 * Rock Lee - (Eight Chakra Gates)

Ultimate Jutsu: Leaf Burning Sky, Hidden Lotus

Jutsu: Rotation & Eight Trigram Palms Storm
 * Neji Hyuga - (Byakugan)

Ultimate Jutsu: Eight Trigram Sixty-four Palms

Jutsu: Blades of 1,000 strikes & Needle Flower Blast
 * Tenten - (Ninja Tool Mode)

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

Jutsu: Leaf's Severe Hurricanes & Dynamic Entry
 * Might Guy - (Eight Chakra Gates)

Ultimate Jutsu: One Own's Rule, Hidden Lotus

Jutsu: Ground Scamper Insects, Ground Runner, & Insects in the Mist
 * Shino Aburame - (Destruction Bug Host Technique)

Ultimate Jutsu: Parasitic Insects: Pupa

Jutsu: Dynamic Marking & Fang over Fang
 * Kiba Inuzuka - (Food Pill Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Wolf Fang Over Fang

Jutsu: Dashing Double Palm & Heaven's Dance of Hazy White
 * Hinata Hyuga - (Byakugan)

Ultimate Jutsu: Protective Eight Trigrams 64 Palms

Jutsu: Sand Shower & Sand Burial
 * Gaara - (Brutal Sand Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Giant Sand Burial

Jutsu: Rumble Fan Wind Mill & True Wind Scythe Jutsu
 * Temari - (Heavenly Fan Dance Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Summoning: Blade Dance

Jutsu: May Shower & Coarse Coffin
 * Kankuro - (Puppet Dance Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Puppet Show: Secret Black Move Iron Maiden

Jutsu: Summoning Jutsu: 'Bring Down the House' & Rasengan
 * Jiraiya - (Sannin Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Sage Power

Jutsu: Blade Dance & Striking Shadow Snake
 * Orochimaru - (Sannin Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Evil Giant

Jutsu: Larch Dance & Carmelia Dance
 * Kimimaro - (Curse Mark Second Stage Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Genji Dance,

Jutsu: Clematis Dance: Vine & Flower

Cursed Mark Level 2: Bracken Dance w/ Dance of the Clematis: Flower

Jutsu: Heaven Kick of Pain & Extreme Deadly Blow
 * Tsunade - (Sannin Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Legendary Herculean Strength

Jutsu: Fire Style: Dragon Flame Bomb & Shadow Clone Shurikens
 * Third Hokage - (Hokage Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Reaper Death Seal

Jutsu: Memorial Flower Sending & 16-Hit Combo
 * Ino Yamanaka - (Hundred Scattered Flowers Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Ninja Art - Inundated with Flowers

Jutsu: Human Boulder & Exspansion Jutsu
 * Choji Akimichi - (Expansion Jutsu) (Butterfly Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Super Expansion Jutsu, Pegasus Wing w/Butterfly Bomb

Jutsu: Expolsive Style Flying Blade & Shadow Possession Jutsu
 * Shikamaru Nara - (Strategy Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Ninja Art: Shadow Strangle Jutsu

Jutsu: Water Style: Water Shark Bomb & Water Style: Water Shark Shotgun
 * Kisame Hoshigaki - (Shark Skin Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Water Style: Grand Water Excavation

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

Jutsu: Feather Illusion Jutsu & Chakra Dissection Blade
 * Kabuto Yakushi - (Super Recovery Mode)

Ultimate Jutsu: Dead Soul Jutsu

Support Characters
Jutsu: Ninja Art: Poison Fog
 * Shizune

Jutsu: Striking Shadow Snake
 * 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