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So yea, sequal to Rise of the Ninja on 360.
So far it seems to be very similar with slightly sharper graphics and more responsive and smoother controls for running and fighting.
One of the new features is sub characters which you can choose to control. On the demo there's no real reason to but I imagine their individual jutsus will be used to progress.
Also the end of the demo has the fight between Sarutobi and Orochimaru which shows you don't always play as Naruto (thank god), it also had short cutscenes now and then plus a QTE bit (sigh).
But I think the most exciting thing is that from the trailer it seems to story manages to go from Orochimarus raid on Konoha up to the last battle with Sasuke, something no other sequal has managed to do. There's a good chance if they make a third it'll cover part of Shippuden, or at least make up an original story just don't drag out the pre-timeskip stuff on forever like every other Naruto game.
Game demo's out now on the 360 for Gold members so give it a go!
List of multiplayer characters:
1. Naruto Uzumaki
2. Sasuke Uchiha
3. Neji Hyuuga
4. Choji Akamichi
5. Shikamaru
6. Jirobu
7. Kiddomaru
8. Orochimaru
9. Tsunade
10. Jiraiya
11. Kabuto
12. Kimimaro
13. Kiba
14. Temari
15. Kisame
16. Sarutobi
17. Tayuya
18. Itachi
19. Yakon/Ukon
20. Sakura
21. Rock Lee
22. Kakashi
23. Zabuza
24. Haku
25. Gaara
26. Kankuro or Gai
27. 1st Hokage
28. 2nd Hokage
29. Kyuubi Naruto
30. CS2 Sasuke
Not to mention DLC which it will no doubt have. Again another improvement but then all games that are first in the particular series have a laughable roster which the sequal fixes, Ultimate Ninja 1 had barely any characters and UN2 was a large step up.
Oh yea, due out 21st November.
Kaito-kun
01-11-2008, 23:28
I tried the demo today.
Combat felt a lot clunkier than I remember and I felt like it was trying to stop me playing the game at time with pointless things, such as when you have to build the bridge out of Naruto clones; yes it was amusing for the first three seconds but when they make a pointless mini-game out of it and you just know that you're going to have to do that every 2 minutes whenever you leave the boundaries of Konoha it looses the novelty.
To be honest the high point of the demo for me was the trailer at the end, but I knew deep down that it won't live up to the trailer's interesting-ness.
Also:
List of multiplayer characters:
1. Naruto Uzumaki
2. Sasuke Uchiha
3. Neji Hyuuga
4. Choji Akamichi
5. Shikamaru
6. Jirobu
7. Kiddomaru
8. Orochimaru
9. Tsunade
10. Jiraiya
11. Kabuto
12. Kimimaro
13. Kiba
14. Temari
15. Kisame
16. Sarutobi
17. Tayuya
18. Itachi
19. Yakon/Ukon
20. Sakura
21. Rock Lee
22. Kakashi
23. Zabuza
24. Haku
25. Gaara
26. Kankuro or Gai
27. 1st Hokage
28. 2nd Hokage
29. Kyuubi Naruto
30. CS2 Sasuke
For the love of God, why?! Why bring him back?! And still no Hinata...
I tried the demo today.
Combat felt a lot clunkier than I remember and I felt like it was trying to stop me playing the game at time with pointless things, such as when you have to build the bridge out of Naruto clones; yes it was amusing for the first three seconds but when they make a pointless mini-game out of it and you just know that you're going to have to do that every 2 minutes whenever you leave the boundaries of Konoha it looses the novelty.
To be honest the high point of the demo for me was the trailer at the end, but I knew deep down that it won't live up to the trailer's interesting-ness.
Also:
For the love of God, why?! Why bring him back?! And still no Hinata...
Because Rock Lee is one of the few good characters in Naruto and can actually fight, which is pretty important in a fighting game.
Kaito-kun
02-11-2008, 12:23
Because Rock Lee is one of the few good characters in Naruto...
I can see we're going to have a difference of opinion here...
...and can actually fight, which is pretty important in a fighting game.
Of course; after all he (And Gaara, although Garaa was less annoying) was the constant choice of spammers in the previous game.
I can see we're going to have a difference of opinion here...
Possibly, but Hinata? Seriously?
Of course; after all he (And Gaara, although Garaa was less annoying) was the constant choice of spammers in the previous game.
Well hopefully they fixed that.
Kaito-kun
02-11-2008, 12:42
Possibly, but Hinata? Seriously?
*Shruggs* I like her; I have no idea why.
Well hopefully they fixed that.
*Nod* Hopefully. Every time I was doing well online in the previous game I came across some git playing as Rock Lee spamming away and preventing me getting any of the achievements for it. That annoyed me. ¬_¬
*Shruggs* I like her; I have no idea why.
Well okay, but also consider there's not enough source material to really add her at all. Unless you want her special to get her ass handed to her by her brother. And in fairness she didn't really do anything between the raid on Konoha and the final fight between Naruto and Sasuke.
Liiiiittle annoyed by lack of Shino.
So!
Yea it's good.
It seems to have borrowed the japanese SFX popup thing from UN which is awesome in my book and it also uses alot of the animes score which again is awesome.
Some improvements are you don't have to bother with hand signals to walk on water or walls, nearly all walls in Konoha are walkable, minigames, bigger world, more NPCs, sensible amount of delivery/races/hide n seek, new stuff to get, decent training mode, and fighting is definitly better though I suck at subbing now.
I'm not a massive fan of the character models, there's something about the faces that just don't look right.
I hope it's longer then rise of ninja, that was extremely short. Only took like 3 days for me to beat it and a whole week for 100%.
I hope it's longer then rise of ninja, that was extremely short. Only took like 3 days for me to beat it and a whole week for 100%.
You collected every single coin? :ohmy:
I hope it's longer then rise of ninja, that was extremely short. Only took like 3 days for me to beat it and a whole week for 100%.
Took me about 10 hours to do the story mode and I hardly stopped to do any of the minigames.
Might take less time to 100% since all the coins show up on the map when story mode is done, there are less side missions and they're apparently easier. But there are all the Tree Action sequences to gold and Tanzaku minigames and fishing and Ninja Info Cards (funky beat).
You collected every single coin? :ohmy:
Yeah I did, it was a bit annoying at times but like Reknoc mentioned they show up on the map after you beat the game.
Yeah I did, it was a bit annoying at times but like Reknoc mentioned they show up on the map after you beat the game.
...no they don't
...Do they? :ohmy: How the hell could I have missed that?! It was the only achievement I was missing from that game >_< that, and the glitched Choji & Temari ones.
Yeah I did, it was a bit annoying at times but like Reknoc mentioned they show up on the map after you beat the game.
In the original? Because I don't remember that.
Well at least BB doesn't have any Forest of Death crap achievements.
Edit: So the 1st and 2nd Hokage and Guy aren't playable characters in fight mode, that's cool I mean it's not like you fight them in the main game and they already have movesets and such... oh wait...
In the original? Because I don't remember that.
Well at least BB doesn't have any Forest of Death crap achievements.
Edit: So the 1st and 2nd Hokage and Guy aren't playable characters in fight mode, that's cool I mean it's not like you fight them in the main game and they already have movesets and such... oh wait...
Possible DLC?
And I liked the Forest of Death, it was pretty addictive, n00bs & spammers ruined it a little...but the ladder style was cool.
Kaito-kun
02-12-2008, 21:39
And I liked the Forest of Death, it was pretty addictive, n00bs & spammers ruined it a little...but the ladder style was cool.
It was like Communism: Works well in theory, but it all goes belly up when you involve humans.
Possible DLC?
And I liked the Forest of Death, it was pretty addictive, n00bs & spammers ruined it a little...but the ladder style was cool.
Probably but I don't want to buy characters I know are already in the game, save that for Shino or like that puppet fellow.
I haven't actually checked out the online mode so it might have something similar but I don't think there are seperate achievements for doing it with all characters.
LeeMan00
16-12-2008, 02:40
My friend tried downloading the demo and got the red ring, so we never tried it out. :( This happened last month and he still has not sent it in for repair, not sure why though, cause its registered to him.
My brother just got and xbox 360, but he does not even want me touching it.
Playing this game for 4 days.
not bad and nothing special actually. It has some great moments, but sometimes the game just doin' it wrong.
Forest of Death replaced with just Tournament where you can't fall down. So it won't be too hard.
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