Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3
(ナルト- ナルティメットヒーロー3, Naruto: Narutimetto Hīrō 3)
Video game info
Playable on	PlayStation 2
Series	Naruto: Ultimate Ninja
Previous	Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2
Next	Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja 4
Release Date
Japanese	December 22, 2005
English	March 25, 2008
Debut
Jutsu Alder All Directions Shuriken Anger of the Sky and the Cherry Blossom and the Earth Apricot Blossom Droop Attack of the Twin Demons Black Secret Technique Machine One Shot Bone Pellet Bringer-of-Darkness Technique Butterfly Bullet Bombing Butterfly Mode Chakra Sword: Great Intersecting Wound Charge! Konohamaru Army Corps! Chubby Go-Round Chubby Megaton Claw of Shukaku Clethra Cloak of Invisibility Technique Clone Combo Clone Spinning Heel Drop Combination Transformation Crimson Leaf Dream Cypress Dance of the False Cleavers Dance of the Larch Dead Soul Technique Demonic Flute: Illusionary Warriors Manipulating Melody Demonic Flute: Phantom Sound Chains Demonic Flute: Phantom Spirit Wave Demonic Flute: Three Subordinates Interment Melody Demonic Mirroring Thin Ice Deutzia Double Dynamic Entry Drooping Flower Drunken Fist Earth Release: Earth Shore Return Earth Release: Erupting Rock Mountain Cannon Earth-Shattering Eight Trigrams Palms Storm Dance Eight Trigrams Three-Hundred-Sixty-One Style Eternal Rival Fang Wolf Fang Fierce Snake Trample Fire Release: Flying Flame Bullet Fire Release: Great Flame Flower Fire Release: Great Flame Rasengan Flash Revolving Foot Flower Dance Flying Thunder God Technique Forbidden Technique: Impure World Seal Destruction Frog Front Lotus of Love and Youth Genjutsu: Mirage Genjutsu: Mist Gentle Fist Instruction Giant Spider Drop Great Barrage Strike Great Entrance of Burning Spirit Hazy Moon Heaven's Blessing Holly Hot Sand Waterfall Funeral Human Beast Combination Transformation: Double-Headed Wolf Instant Lightning Blade Instant Water Leaf Great Whirlwind Lightning Cutter One Flash Manipulated Tools: Floating Blade Wall Medullary Cut Mountain Face Multiple Connected Feet Multiple Connected Fists Naruto Uzumaki Two Thousand Combo Naruto Uzumaki's Shinobi Handbook Nine-Tails' Power Ninja Art: Dance of the Snowy Cherry Blossom Offering Flowers Funeral Outcry of Earth Pair of Maidens Pampas Parasitic Destruction Insects: Hail Passing Fang Peerless Great Flame Bullet Peerless Great Wind Formation Peony Snow Piercing Burning Emotions Protecting Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms Quicksand Waterfall Flow Revolt of the Demon World Sand Blade Double Attack Sand Drizzle Sand Waterfall Imperial Funeral Sannin Mode Scarlet Invitation Scent Blossom Colouring Sealing Technique: Three Directions Seal Shadow Pressure Palm Technique Sky Shaking Fist Spider Sticky Gold Spider Web Unrolling Spiral Lotus... further results
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Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3, known in Japan as Naruto: Narutimate Hero 3 (ナルト- ナルティメットヒーロー3, Naruto: Narutimetto Hīrō 3), is the third instalment of the fighting game series Naruto: Ultimate Ninja released for the Playstation 2.

Gameplay

Japanese cover.

The game has roughly 42 characters. It features a new story mode, more manoeuvrability for characters, and a much larger variety of music.

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 also offers a different sort of story mode from Ultimate Ninja 2. This is called the Hero's History. It replays every major fight from the beginning of the series (Naruto vs. Kakashi-the training), to the end of Part I (Naruto vs. Sasuke-the final battle). Although it skips a lot of dialogue and transition scenes (scenes such as the Chūnin Exams preliminaries and most of the cut-scenes that one grew accustomed to in UN 2) are completely gone. It's a good way to get 'quick action' in the game for those who get bored easily of the endless tirade of cut-scenes in UN 2, and it is a good way to get a lot of unlockable characters.

Another interesting feature is called the Ultimate Path (Ultimate Contest in English version). This is an RPG style part of the game, which allows you to go on missions and unlock several characters, as well as learn different technique. Before the player can do this, however, the player have to enter into a tournament in which the player need to defeat many characters in order to get their crystals. After this is done, the player can roam freely and level up different characters which the player have unlocked.

Playable Characters

Parenthesis indicate character's Awakening Mode or Summoning Mode.

• Naruto Uzumaki (Nine-Tails Mode), also playable in a One-Tailed form, also playable with a Taijutsu outfit known as Green Beast (Ultimate Mode)
• Sasuke Uchiha (Curse Mark Mode also playable in a Sharingan Mode, and Curse Mark Mode Stage 2)
• Sakura Haruno (The Great Sakura Mode)
• Kakashi Hatake (Sharingan Mode), also playable with an Anbu outfit (Ultimate Mode)
• Hashirama Senju (Hokage Mode)
• Tobirama Senju (Hokage Mode)
• Hiruzen Sarutobi (Reaper Death Seal Mode)
• Minato Namikaze (Yellow Flash Mode)
• Tsunade (Mitotic Regeneration Mode, Katsuyu Summoning)
• Orochimaru (Manda Summoning)
• Jiraiya (Gamabunta Summoning)
• Itachi Uchiha (Tsukuyomi Mode)
• Haku (Ice Blade Mode)
• Zabuza Momochi (Demon Mode)
• Kisame Hoshigaki (Shark Skin Mode)
• Konohamaru (Kiddy Mode)
• Shizune (Medical Mode)
• Kabuto Yakushi (Super Recovery Mode)
• Anko Mitarashi (Ultimate Mode), when battling Orochimaru (Curse Mark Mode)
• Shino Aburame (Beetle Mode)
• Hinata Hyūga (Byakugan Mode)
• Kiba Inuzuka (Double Headed Wolf Mode)
• Kurenai Yūhi (Haze Mode)
• Shikamaru Nara (Strategy Mode)
• Ino Yamanaka (Covered With Flowers Mode)
• Chōji Akimichi (Super Chōji Mode, Expansion Mode)
• Asuma Sarutobi (Fist Strike Mode)
• Rock Lee (Loopy Fist Mode, Eight Gates Mode)
• Tenten (Ninja Tool Mode)
• Neji Hyūga (Byakugan Mode)
• Might Guy (Eight Gates Mode)
• Kankurō (Armoured Mode)
• Gaara (Possession Mode)
• Temari (Heavenly Dance Mode)
• Kidōmaru (Curse Mark Mode) and (Curse Mark Mode Stage 2)
• Sakon (Curse Mark Mode) and (Curse Mark Mode Stage 2)
• Tayuya (Curse Mark Mode) and (Curse Mark Mode Stage 2)
• Jirōbō (Curse Mark Mode) and (Curse Mark Mode Stage 2)
• Kimimaro (Curse Mark Mode) and (Curse Mark Mode Stage 2)
• Hanabi Hyūga (Byakugan Mode)

Trivia

• There was an OVA of this game's crystal competition mode used to help promote the game.
• In a fight, if the player plays as Anko with Orochimaru as the opponent, she will go into Stage 1 of Cursed Seal of Heaven if using her Ultimate Jutsu, Twin Snakes Mutual Death Technique, is successful.
• Have a saved game from Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2 on the memory card to when starting a new game, a confirmation message will appear on the blank screen just before the loading screen and main menu appears, stating that the player have earned 607 Ninja Info Cards and 50,000 ryō.
• Minato (labelled the Yellow Flash in the game) is the only playable character that does not have a voice in this game.
• Due to its prequel being criticized for the CPU being too difficult to fight and how some of controls and timing were impossible, many things in the combat was "dumbed down" to make it easier. For example, when a player gets sent back and the opponent attempts to do a knock back, instead of timing an input at the exact moment when they're hit to substitute, players mash a certain button in order to do so.
• Unlike its two prequels, this game does away with ultimate jutsus that have multiple scenes and transitions. The player can do only one ultimate jutsu per match, but can customize which one they want. Also, unlike the previous games, the player can choose whether the ultimate jutsu is done by a command, mash, or spin input.
• Certain characters, such as Jiraiya or Sakura, have unique Ultimate Jutsus where they turn into "Giant Battles". If they are successful at hitting it, they turn into gigantic creatures, such as Gamabunta or Inner Sakura, that are slow, but are very powerful and deal massively damaging attacks. However, this will not remain for the rest of the match, as a "time bar" will appear and slowly deplete; when it is empty, the "giant battle" will cease and go back to a normal match.
• Certain characters change into different enhanced versions of themselves when they are successful with a certain Ultimate Jutsu. The change will last for the rest of the match. The following characters who can change into different characters: Naruto, Sasuke, Lee, Choji, Gaara, and the Sound Ninja Five. If the player wishes to play as these enhanced versions from the start of the match, highlight the character and choose them while holding the Select button.
• In the previous two games during an Ultimate Jutsu, even if the Defending Player wins the input battle, the current scene/transition will still happen and they will take moderate damage from it. However, if the Defending Player wins in this game at a Ultimate Jutsu input, the screen will freeze during the scene/transition as their character will mock the failed Ultimate Jutsu attempt, and the screen will shatter back to the battle where the two characters stand off. The Defending Player will not take any damage.
• During one of Sasuke's Ultimate Jutsus called "Falcon Drop", he does a four punch combo that finishes with a kick that sends the opponent flipping backwards. This actually was based off of what Naruto did to Sasuke in the anime during the Final Valley fight, and would also be later on slightly modified to be used in one of Part I Naruto's combos in the Naruto Storm series.

External Links

• Naruto: Narutimate Hero 3 official website (Japanese)