Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 (Sony PlayStation 2, 2008)

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3, known in Japan as Naruto: Narutimate Hero 3 (NARUTO-ナルト- ナルティメットヒーロー３, Naruto: Narutimate Hero 3?), is the third installment in the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja series. The game was released on December 22, 2005 in Japan, and in North America on March 25, 2008.[5] This game features the largest roster in the Ultimate Ninja series, with 42 characters, and follows the storyline up to the Sasuke Retrieval Arc. There will also be equippable jutsu like the second game. When two jutsu of the same strength clash, the game cuts to a mini-game, in which the player or players will have to press a button repeatedly, until either jutsu wins out over the other. In this installment, the player will be able to both induce temporary transformations (like Sasuke and the Sound 5's Curse Mark LV1 and Rock lee's Eight Gates) through special jutsu, and other, more permanent ones, that last the entire rest of the fight (like One Tailed Kyuubi Naruto and Curse Mark LV2). Like the previous installment, this game also has an RPG mode, but unlike Ultimate Ninja 2's RPG, this game's RPG will enable you to jump on buildings and will have a larger map, although the only place outside of Konoha that can be accessed will be Tanzaku Town.

Players should note that the RPG section of the game is a sandbox type. After completing the Ultimate Contest plot players can explore and interact with different characters and repeat the missions as long as they wish. Along the way the even get to experience the so-called "filler cutscenes" such as Naruto taking a dip at the hot springs with Rock Lee/Might Guy or even treat to some dumplings with Anko, Sakura or Hinata.

NARUTO ULTIMATE NINJA 3 WAS EVEN BETTER THAN I EXPECTED WHEN I BOUGHT IT.
IT WAS MORE THAN JUST A GAME IT WAS A FAMILY INVESTMENT EVERYONE YOUNG AND OLD CAN GET INTO THIS GAME. MY FAVORITE PARTS WERE THE 2 PLAYER BREAKROOM THERE WAS TARGET PRACTICE WITH TEN-TEN, WORKING OUT AND STRIKE A POSE WITH LEE,
TREE CLIMBING WITH SAKURA AND MORE. I ALSO LIKE THE ONE PLAYER ULTIMATE CONTEST WITH A SURPRIZE ENDING I WON'T SPOIL GUESS YOU WILL HAVE TO BUY ONE TO FIND OUT. ALSO IN ONE PLAYER HERO'S HISTORY THERE ARE MISSION AND MANY MORE THINGS TO DO LIKE MOST YOUNG LEAF NINJA NARUTO HAS ALOT TO DO HE EVEN STOPS TO EAT WITH HIS FRIENDS DUMPLINGS AND LOTS OF RAMEN.
SOME OF THE JUTSU ARE DIFFRENT FROM NARUTO ULTIMATE NINJA 1 & 2 IF YOU COULD ACE ALL THE BUTTON COMBOS IN GAMES 1&2 YOUR IN FOR IT THIS ONE WAS A CHALLENGE HOWEVER, IN 2 PLAYER VS. MODE YOU CAN ADJUST TO A ONLY SPIN OR ONLY PRESS ONE BUTTON AND NO MORE LONG JUTSUS LIKE ULTIMATE NINJA 2 THIS GAME GOES RIGHT FOR THE GOLD.

YOU CAN CHANGE WHAT JUTSUS YOU DO AND NOT JUST WITHIN NORMAL YOU CAN LEARN NEW MOVES. I WENT THROUGH QUITE A FEW COMBOS BEFORE I FOUND MY PERFECT PAIR, BUT AFTER THAT I WAS UNSTOPPABLE.
THIS GAME HAS ALOT OF UNLOCKABLE FEATURES AND 40 NINJA TO CHOOSE FROM WELL AFTER YOU UNLOCK THEM.I HAVEN'T UNLOCKED THEM ALL YET, BUT I DO HAVE HANIBI HINATA'S SISTER AND THE SOUND 4 OFFERING ALOT OF NEW BATTLES.
ON THE DOWN SIDE I WAS HOPING CURSED DEMON SASUKE, NINE TAIL NARUTO AND DEMON FORM SOUND 4 WOULD BE THIER OWN PLAYERS IN THIS GAME, BUT IT WASN'T BAD JUST TOOK SOME GETTING USED TO. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS THE JUTSU TO BECOME DEMON FORM. WHEN I FIRST USED NARUTO ULTIMATE NINJA 3 I GOT A SURPRIZE NOT ONLY THE AWESOME!OPENING. I ALSO GOT REWARDED FOR BEING A HARDCORE FAN WITH A STARTING BONUS OF ALL MY UNLOCKED PLAYERS FROM MY NARUTO ULTIMATE NINJA 2 GAME PLUS SOME OTHER COOL STUFF I AM SURE I FORGOT.
OH YEAH IF YOUR A GAARA FAN IN THIS GAME HES STILL AWESOME BUT NOT A KILLER SO MUCH WOW HE REALLY DID TURN NICER. SPEAKING OF GAARA YOU GET TO FIGHT SUMMONED BEAST, YEA THAT'S RIGHT LITTLE NINJA IN ONE CORNER AND IN THE OTHER WHAT ITS GAARA'S DEMON OR A SLUG,FROG WELL YOU GET RIGHT.
NOW ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS GET THIS AWESOME GAME!

Pretty decent graphics - designed more from the manga than the anime. Cell shading has some cool ink-pen effects, and makes the characters feel more drawn. The gameplay is great, easy to pick up and feels like a combination of Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3 and Super Smash Bros. The items seem a little unnecessary, and I almost never use them in a serious battle. The Ultimate Jutsus are amazing, awesome little cutscenes for each, (1st Hokage's is INSANE!) and there are 3 or 4 different ones to choose from for each character - on average. Some moves seem a little imbalanced, as the computer cannot guard against them on any difficulty, but honestly, it provides a nice fail-safe for particularly hard battles. The RPG mode has some cool controls, and I found leaping across the village from rooftop to rooftop to be a lot of simplistic fun. The Story Mode left a lot of battles to be desired, and it wouldn't have taken too much to add all the battles and different stages of battles from the series. Tenkaichi 2 it's not, but apparently we do have Ultimate Ninja STORM for PS3 to look forward to - which looks to be a much bigger success than DBZ Burst Limit. Great game overall, and it does my heart good to see the Fourth Hokage as a playable character for the first time!

The game was way easier than the first and second Ultimate Ninja games (which I still haven't beaten), and I was able to fully 100 percent everything in it (missions, story, all scrolls and characters unlocked, etc...) in 27 hours.

Now that Ive finished it there is no point to play anymore cause there is nothing more to do. The story plot is shorter than that of ultimate ninja 2 and is sort of like ultimate Ninja 1 in that it is short and boring.

There are some cool new features in it though that are not in the previous 2 titles like roaming around the map and being able to run up walls (:!!! Also there are scrolls u can collect for completing missions to trade for items or cash. There are 20 lvls to play on now!!! There are also a bunch of new characters that are way cooler than the previous titles.

The ultimate system is a lot differnt in this one though. You don't have multiple attacks or scenes when performing your ultimate ninjutsu, You have to do them 1 by 1 and you cant change them during battle you have to select b4 the battle starts which is the most retarded way (in my opinion) of coming up w/this system. They could of kept the moves seperate, and at least let you perform multiple ultimates ( like lvl 1 bar, and lvl 3 bar in same fight) like in the first and 2nd games.

A fun Game if you like the Naruto games and want to experience it in a whole new light. But way to easy and short to beat. Not worth ever touching again unless playing multi player w/a friend.

This game is fun. If you are a fan of the series than this is a must have!!
It is a free roaming game which is great for fans of that Genre. You can go almost anywhere, but there is a map that helps you find key characters within the story arc. I like that once you get far enough with Naruto, you can than use other characters to explore, and than go through their story as well.