Narutimate - Ultimate Ninja Heroes 3

Dropping you into 1 vs. 100 style beat 'em up battles on open playing fields.

Dropping you into 1 vs. 100 style beat 'em up battles on open playing fields.

Description - Narutimate - Ultimate Ninja Heroes 3

Narutimate - Ultimate Ninja Heroes 3 follows the titular anime series from beginning to end, hitting the series' highlights along the way. The core gameplay owes much, dropping you into 1 vs. 100 style beat 'em up battles on open playing fields. The main campaign offers a sizable 20 hours of content, during which you get to play as, and level up, a huge cast of colorful characters while collecting and equipping stat enhancing cards to further augment their abilities. If you're not in the mood for a lot of exposition and dialogue, you can head over to the Extra and Tag Mission modes and get right to the clobberin', either on your own or with a buddy over ad hoc.

Features - Narutimate - Ultimate Ninja Heroes 3

* A lot of challenges and stages

* Easy and Simple to play

* amazing ten animations

* Flexible moving and game play

* HD graphics

[Other Features]

* Mental training for ten kids who likes cute cats and picture books!

* Easy and simple. Fun way to kill time!

* Narutimate ninja characters

* Storm support

* Easy to play and shippuden characters

Gameplay - Narutimate - Ultimate Ninja Heroes 3

While Narutimate and Sasuke get the most spotlight, the game does a good job of incorporating the stories of other characters as well, and makes them surprisingly compelling to boot. I found myself so invested in some of them that I'm honestly chomping at the bit to meet them during my now inevitable Narutimate viewing marathon.

This respectful treatment of the source material carries over into combat where each character's signature moves are put on beautiful display with fluid animations and the same vibrant color palette that Narutimate is known for. As you Rasengan waves and waves of enemy ninjas into the next zip code, other characters chime in with their thoughts and observations on the situation at hand. While these can start repeating during longer battles, they help maintain the tone of the plot between story sequences. It kept me focused on the task at hand, even when I felt like I was doing the same thing as I did last mission and the mission before that.

Narutimate - Ultimate Ninja Heroes 3 gave me that feeling quite often. While the game offers up a lot of content in both the main and extra modes, the shallow, repetitive nature of the combat devalues that content a bit. Don't get me wrong, unleashing awesome looking secret techniques on hordes of hapless foes felt immensely entertaining and made me feel like a real Jinchuriki badass, but the constantly recycled battles and mission objectives started giving me deja vu pretty quickly.

The poor, occasionally broken enemy AI didn't help either, especially within the large groups of lesser enemies you fight constantly. Not only do they sport very little variety, but they also appear to have an aversion to violence. Even when surrounded by a hundred or more foes, I could safely sit there and charge up my chakra, bake a cake, or simply stare off into space, secure in the knowledge that I probably wouldn't be attacked.