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New Naruto Broken Bond (360) images and trailer
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Dead Prince
Banned
IT looks better the last time I saw it which is good ;o
sevenchaos
Banned
Looking better. 
ZOMG Spoilerzzz!!! j/k
It looks better and i may take a look at this one but the PS3 game will occupy a good chunk of my attention when it drops. The ubisoft game had a lot of nice touches (animation and audio from the show) that keep me interested in this title. Hopefully it wont have as many bugs this time around.
Bunny
Member
that shot is so awesome.Blimblim said:
ShockingAlberto
Member
After the first game, I'm not trusting Ubisoft until I hear good final retail impressions.
I don't want another half-finished game.
I don't want another half-finished game.
Crazymoogle
Member
ShockingAlberto said:
FYI guys, the demo is out...three chunks to it:
-Escape from Konoha
-Part of the Sasuke Chase
-3rd vs. Orochimaru and
1st/2nd Hokages
Ubisoft has definitely fixed things up a bit.
Positive:
-Didn't see any of the slowdown issues from the first game. The framerate really did seem solid. That being said running quickly through town is just as problematic as before; controls are exactly the same as in the previous one.
-Text seems a lot smoother. Admittedly there wasn't much of it, but I didn't see the awkward reverse scroll junk from before. The demo is fully bilingual with subs, though the character grunts seem to be from the english dub. That could just be a demo thing.
-For anybody wondering why UNS didn't get the show music...well this is your answer, perhaps? The demo uses music almost exclusively from the show, and there are some really good ones in there. (For example, Orochimaru's theme!) If there is anything that gets me really jazzed up to play this game, the music would have to be it.
-Okay, the graphics aren't as good as UNS. They try, but really, the toon shading isn't on the same level, and there are some goofy things (citizens running through walls, the stone faces on the village cliffside, the difference between cutscene/ingame faces, etc.) But it's still remarkably solid.
-The new improvement is team play. You can now have multiple party members and switch with the dpad. Sort of like MvC or whatnot, you can fight multi-character battles and perform combos that switch you out. I didn't see any character specialties in the demo, though, and it seems all of the chakra powers outside of combat were for Naruto only. (Why do I have a feeling I have to do hand-signs to walk on water again...?)
Negative:
-My first big disappointment is that it's the same game design. Escapes are time trials. There are jumping puzzles, switch puzzles, random nameless flunkie encounters...and quicktime events whenever the story gets cinematic. Nothing in the demo was as bad as later in the first game, but really, why do I have re-fight part of a boss because I missed the 6th of 7 QTE presses?
-The other big disappointment is simply timing. Broken Bond appears to cover from the Gaara chase to the end of part one (the waterfall battle.) Not a problem by itself, right?
What does bother is is that UNS is shipping two weeks earlier, covering the same manga story period, only with arguably more impressive graphics AND some promising gameplay. (Admittedly unplayed at this point, so I guess we'll see how it turns out.)
If you only have a 360, well this may be worth a look, but I'll need to wait and see if Ubisoft exorcised some more gameplay demons before putting up 60 dollars.
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Crazymoogle said:
All characters have their own chakra-powers. It was shown in a previous video; Shikamaru uses his shadow to reach for objects far away, Naruto can make a bridge using clones, Neji was using his vision to see traps. You use them in the journey mode.
I agree UNS not only looks practically perfect (graphics = anime, animations = anime), but also it covers all the episodes of pre-shippuden. The game looks VERY polished.
Future PhaZe
Member
Its hard for me to get excited about pre-Shippuden Naruto at this point...
But at the same time a next gen Shippuden game wouldn't be able to even produce much gameplay with whats released in anime form right now.
But at the same time a next gen Shippuden game wouldn't be able to even produce much gameplay with whats released in anime form right now.
NeOak
Member
Man, Naruto jumped the shark when the
than the 5 mins until Namek explodes.
Shi
ppuden feels like the Namek saga all over again in terms of pacing. Ep 44? Wow, Naruto
and that dude i dont remember the name said "hey, what's up" to Orochimaru. 18 mins of filler... and Flashbacks^3
And lets not start about Bleach...
I do have Rise of a Ninja, so i'll probably check this game.
3rd Hokage took more eps to die
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And lets not start about Bleach...
I do have Rise of a Ninja, so i'll probably check this game.
Shadowlink
Member
Have you seen shippuden lately? It is getting better, I don't want to spoil anything to the ones who haven't started shippuden yet but it got better.NeOak said:
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Deleted member 13876
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I got to play the fighting part of it, and apart from the extra characters the fighting itself has barely changed apart from a few cosmetic things like no more freaky filter in rage mode.
SuperSonic1305
Member
At least they got rid of those stupid Online achievements for every character. I didn't even get 1 in the first game.
f3niks said:
ZOMG Spoilerzzz!!! j/k
It looks better and i may take a look at this one but the PS3 game will occupy a good chunk of my attention when it drops. The ubisoft game had a lot of nice touches (animation and audio from the show) that keep me interested in this title. Hopefully it wont have as many bugs this time around.
this particular doesn't look or feel like Naruto at all. The hidden leaf village screens look nice thoug