Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 (0)

Overview

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 is the second 3D installment in the . Developed by CyberConnect2, the game was released in the United Kingdom on the 15th of October, in the United States on October 19th, and ending up in Japan on the 21st of October. It is the first of the Ultimate Ninja series to have centralized online battles. This also marks the first time that the Ultimate Ninja series has been released on something other than a Sony platform.

Story Mode

Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 offers a more robust and cinematic single-player experience than than previous entries in the series. It follows the life of three years after the end of the first game. The members of the original Team-7, Naruto, , and have been getting special training from each of the respective Sannin - , , and . The campaign runs on until Naruto's confrontation with , the one believed to be the leader of Akatsuki (this is around the 170 episode mark in the anime). The open world environment has been slightly changed from the previous iteration as you can't jump across buildings and such as the environments have been replaced with painted landscapes.

Multiplayer

The multiplayer is comprised of Free Battle (allowing you to duke it out against a local player or CPU) and Online Battle. There are 42 characters available to choose from with each character having unique movesets. Noticeable aspects of online play are the ninja-card and title systems, which you expand on heavily during the story mode through various quests and buying the items in shops. It's your alias on the online database as you can choose your own personal title along with one of hundreds of profile pictures taken straight from the anime.

Character List

• - Wind Style: Rasen Shuriken
• Naruto - Nine-tailed Rasengan
• Naruto - Sage Mode
• Naruto - Hokage costume
• - Kirin
• Sasuke - Chidori True Spear
• Sasuke - Taka
• ('s Body/Deva Path)
• Minato Namikaze
• (Crossover from )

Soundtrack

Track list consists of:

1 - Akatsuki

2 - Battle in the Sand

3 - Sakura's Good Fight

4 - Eyes Like Cold Steel

5 - Acquantance From Long Ago

6 - The Dying

7 - Paces Towards Death

8 - The Only Brother

9 - The Eye of Rinne

10 - Lightless Struggle

11 - A Will Inherited

12 - He who Howls and Rages

13 - White-hot Battle at the Summit

14 - The Way to Peace