Naruto: Rise of a Ninja

Finally! The Japanese voice pack for Naruto: Rise of a Ninja is available on the Marketplace. For just a tad less than 60 MB you'll finally be able to get some decent voice work for that nice little game. Video of some dialogs early in the game inside.

Naruto: Rise of a Ninja will be released today in the US, and on Friday in Europe, and this time we managed to get some videos out before the actual release. Let's hope this will be more often the case! Anyway, for a half linear and half sandbox game like Naruto nothing less than 5 videos will be necessary to show how everything works, but I'm sure the numerous fans of the series won't mind!
Update: All five videos are now online.

Ubisoft sent us what could really well be the last trailer for Naruto: Rise of a Ninja since the game is going to be released in the next days all over the world. Count on us for some videos as soon as the embargo is lifted on Thursday.

We asked on the forum for questions to upcoming interviews done by the XCN, and first out is Naruto: Rise of a Ninja. Most of the questions actually got picked for the interview done by them, so inside you'll find Sebastien Puel's thoughts about characters, DLC, not doing CO-OP, upcoming Naruto games and much more.

Ubisoft released this third developer diary of Naruto: Rise of a Ninja, this time about the art direction of the game. Also worth mentioning, a nice mistake at Cell Shading.

Here are three homemade videos of Naruto: Rise of a Ninja since we just received the game (well, a really early version though). We can discover the beginning of Ubi Soft's new game where Naruto achieves his first mission and his first fight. The second video will show a bunch of other missions (like an express ramen delivery) while the last video will show the rooftops of the city for some platforming. So keep in mind this version is far from complete and contains a lot of sound and layout bugs.

Ubisoft released this developer diary video of the promising Naruto: Rise of a Ninja unveiling the fighting system of the game. More videos from that game soon!

Ubisoft sent is this quite nice Developer Diary of Naruto: Rise of a Ninja about the character progression in the game.

During our day at the Micromania Games Show in Paris, we had the opportunity to watch a long demonstration about the solo adventure in Naruto: Rise of a Ninja, and we could also play the two-players mode, which is nice although a bit short on moves. The fighting video showcases different environments and characters. Concerning the story video, as the quests demoed weren't really interesting, I've decided to only keep the free running in the Konoha village, as well as the learning of a new power by Naruto.

Naruto Rise of a Ninja will be one of the last few titles to get some images from the GC Press Kit, and it still doesn't look bad at all.