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I'm not the biggest fan of the Naruto anime, but I'll be damned if they haven't created some fun games from the series that do a great job of making you feel like a bad-ass ninja. I was always on the fence about the titles that focused more on attempti...
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Video games based on Japanese animes are known for two specific things. They have names that are entirely too long, and they are often terrible. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 keeps up with at least one of these anime video games axioms by ke...
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Most games based on a licensed property are terrible.It's a sad truth of the gaming world, and many players have accepted this as a foregone conclusion. Licensed games are bad until proven good. Merely tolerable licensed games are the exception rathe...
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It's a sad fact that among the constant flood of games based on popular anime series, many succeed at delivering lots of characters, music, and other content that appeal to devoted fans, but can't manage to support all these goodies with a compelling g...
Great graphics and animation capture the look of the anime, Stunning quicktime events make for some memorable moments, Great voice acting, camera work, and music enhance the story's impact.
Fighting system lacks depth, Lots of dull content in between the memorable moments, Frequent loading times interrupt the flow of the game.
A flair for the dramatic elevates Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 above its shallow combat...
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The Nine-tailed Fox is a force comparable to a natural disaster. A single swipe of one of its tails can flatten mountains and reduce entire towns to smouldering piles of rubble. This is the same power lurking inside Naruto Uzamaki, a zealous young ninj...
Celshaded visuals are gorgeous, Story is conveyed very well, Exploration is superficial, Fairly shallow combat...
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Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 has a split personality. On the one hand it’s a fighting videogame, while on the other it’s an RPG nestled cosily inside an anime story. Long time fans of the cartoon series will be familiar with the tale of you...
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 has a split personality. On the one hand it’s a fighting videogame, while on the other it’s an RPG nestled cosily inside an anime story. Long time fans of the cartoon series will be familiar with the tale of you...
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To most Naruto fans, 2008's Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm is the game by which all other Naruto games must be judged. Ultimate Ninja Storm featured great combat, amazing visuals, and a new mission-based format that was quite a break from the establishe...
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A more mature Naruto arrives.Video games are about living within worlds. Some of these worlds are very much like our own, and some of them are spectacularly different. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 is the newest video game entry into the int...
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With a magna/anime franchise clearly as immensely popular worldwide and especially in Japan as Naruto is, is easy to see why there’s literally dozens of games based on it readily available. And here’s yet another: Naruto Shippuden Ultimate...
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Updated: 2012-01-25 07:02:49
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I'm not super into the Naruto anime, and I'm not all that into fighting games, but I enjoyed the hell out of Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja: Storm 2. It's so strikingly beautiful that it drew me into the narrative despite my general ambivalence to th...
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja: Storm 2 is one of the more gorgeous games I’ve seen in a long time. They’ve really captured the feeling of the cartoons, and playing the Adventure Mode -- at least in the less tedious portions -- feels like you’re play...
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