Didn’t see a thread about this yet, so I decided to make one.
Primarily an action-adventure game, Naruto: RoaN is being produced by Ubisoft Montreal, a big departure from the Bandai games which have been pretty mediocre for some time now.
Along with the aforementioned action-adventure game, there’s also going to be a full-blown fighting game as well (which is why I made the topic), which will feature online play, and a full on tournament which is named after the Chunin exam in the animated series.
Here’s some vids showing the fighting part of the game;
The game has been getting pretty positive feedback from major sites like Gamespot, IGN, and Gamespy, and MS even featured it in its keynote speech at TGS. It’ll be interesting to see if a western developer can pull off an anime license better than their eastern counterparts.
In any case, its coming out October 30th exclusively for the Xbox 360.
Yeah, the Jutsus really make this game a cut above the other Naruto fighters out there. There’s different types of Jutsus as well. Some mess up your opponent’s button presses, and others enhance your abilities. The jutsus that cause damage open up a mini-game of sorts like that Neji clip above.
I’m wondering how exactly they’re gonna represent lee since he can’t perform ninjitsu and he doesn’t do seals…and let’s assume and hope that these guys are just…really…really bad.
I’m not a big fan of Ubisoft, but still I’ll give this a chance…for the adventure aspect, I got a bad feeling about them trying to make this a legit fighting game.
i just saw that article…and i must say…i’m disappointed a bit in how he’s represented…that’s my opinion. Especially considering that Rock Lee is my favorite character in the series. That better not be fuckin all he can do in the game…as in just open gates…where’s the Omote Renge!?..Where’s Ura Renge!? I saw him do something similar to konoha sempu but i wasn’t sure…and when he goes into 3rd gate i want his hair standing on end…not just his face turning red. He’s also supposed to be in full body testicle syndrome after having been in the gates but i didn’t really see that either…I know i’m probably being picky though lol but i feel they gyped him probably because they’re just now deciding to put him in as a character to fight bah…
focus of the game isn’t the fighting, its basically doing the first story arc as ambitiously as they can; its more of an action/adventure game. can’t wait to see what they do with rock vs gaara, naruto/neji battle was breathtaking from what I saw
Don’t think it will work. If you look at the fighting clips, you have to use the analogs to do “hand seals” to build up Chakra and do your Jutsus.
I’ve been looking forward to this, but I kind of don’t feel like its going to become a game that will be played as competitively as other fighting games.
