Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja 4

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja 4, known in Japan as, is the fourth installment in the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja (Narutimate Hero) and the first in the Accel game series. The game was released on April 5, 2007 in Japan and on March 24, 2009 in North America for the Playstation 2. It was released on May 1, 2009 in Europe and May 7, in Australia.

In addition to elements established in previous Ultimate Ninja games, Ultimate Ninja 4 offers several new twists to combat. When two opponents clash, they will begin a series of high-speed attacks, appearing as a pair of blurs dueling across the stage. The winner is determined by a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. There is also the inclusion of the "Awakening Jutsu." When certain conditions are met, a character may trigger an Awakening Jutsu. These techniques are more powerful than the standard Ultimate Jutsu and, as the name implies, "awakens" a character's powers (i.e. Naruto's tailed-fox form with overpowering red chakra).

Master Mode
A RPG like mode that starts before to Naruto Shippūden. In this mode players are able to experience the main Shippūden Story, but before that they must complete an original storyline called The Black Shadow. The story is generally long, and in the end they have to encounter the Black Shadow himself to move to the Main Shippūden Storyline. The Shippūden Storyline In this game ends halfway the Rescue Gaara arc, Up to episode 17 of The Shippūden Anime, after it leads to a free mode were you can do missions and tasks and also look for hero tokens needed to unlock hero mode's videos and fights.

Hero Mode
The player needs to unlock the stories in Master Mode to play through this mode. It's a resume of the Naruto stories in Part 1, with some animations and fights.


 * Free Battle: Normal fighting game.
 * Practice: Practice mode with comments of Jiraiya.
 * Shop: The player can buy figures, special attack videos, voices and musics to see in the collection, and also different characters (guide ninjas) to appear in the main menu. There is no Ninja Info Cards in this game.
 * Collection: The player can watch sequences from the game and stuff bought in the shop.
 * Options: Game options and configuration.

Playable characters
Some characters are playable in both their pre and post-timeskip forms. All characters have one or more transformations, such as cursed seals, that are activated under special conditions.


 * Naruto Uzumaki (timeskip, demon fox)
 * Sakura Haruno (timeskip)
 * Kakashi Hatake
 * Shikamaru Nara (timeskip)
 * Rock Lee (timeskip, drunk)
 * Neji Hyuga (timeskip)
 * Tenten (timeskip)
 * Might Guy
 * Gaara (timeskip, Shukaku)
 * Kankuro (timeskip)
 * Temari (timeskip)
 * Chiyo
 * Itachi Uchiha
 * Kisame Hoshigaki
 * Deidara
 * Sasori
 * Jiraiya
 * Tsunade
 * Sasuke Uchiha (cursed seal)
 * Hinata Hyuga
 * Choji Akimichi (Super)
 * Ino Yamanaka
 * Kiba Inuzuka
 * Shino Aburame
 * Shizune
 * Konohamaru Ninja Squad
 * Hanabi Hyuga
 * Asuma Sarutobi
 * Kurenai Yuhi
 * Anko Mitarashi (cursed seal)
 * The First Hokage
 * The Second Hokage
 * The Third Hokage
 * The Yellow Flash
 * Orochimaru
 * Kabuto Yakushi
 * Kimimaro (cursed seal)
 * Sakon (cursed seal)
 * Tayuya (cursed seal)
 * Kidomaru (cursed seal)
 * Jirobo (cursed seal)
 * Zabuza Momochi
 * Haku

Game only characters

 * is the first boss of Master Mode, a giant wolf like monster with five eyes, two noses and six legs. It only talks in Katakana in the Japanese version.
 * , a small girl. In order to heal her sick mother, Aoi becomes a sacrifice to the Black Shadow, but went to kill the demon to get a leaf from the Tree of Life that would heal her mother.
 * , Aoi's Mother. She was sick and dying before Naruto and her daughter, Aoi, saved her.