Naruto: Rise of a Ninja (xbox360)

Joshua Stubbles

I know there are quite a few Naruto fans here. The game is looking pretty damn cool.

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/naruto/images.html

Asherr

that does look nice. sounds like it will be a combination of the current Naruto fighting and adventure games. i just wonder how far through the Naruto story you will get to play.

Marcus Dublin

"Mangekyo Sharingan" Man that's looking sweet! I wonder if you can travel to the other villages like the sand.

Marcus Dublin

Artist - Kaos Studios

Pavel

Oh...holy...this screens looking awwesome!

Xenobond

I don't see any Ramen shops in that screenshot.
fail!

Neo_God

I'm not really a fan of the series, but I'm wondering why they chose to not cell shade the environment. I really dislike it when games do this.

Xenobond

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I'm not really a fan of the series, but I'm wondering why they chose to not cell shade the environment. I really dislike it when games do this.

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I think this juxtaposition-ing (if you can even call it that) of the simplified cartoon style characters against the more realisticly rendered (or more painterly) environments has been a staple with the anime and manga style.

Peris

Those environments are looking incredible!

Ninjas

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It is typical in most anime for the backgrounds to be more like paintings. In fact, the background looks almost exactly like the show, too bad the character looks like ass with that chunky black outline.

Sa74n

oh boy, that looks nice!

KeyserSoze

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I'm not really a fan of the series, but I'm wondering why they chose to not cell shade the environment. I really dislike it when games do this.

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In animation, backgrounds are typically painted, and only the characters and objects which they interact with are painted on cels... well, unless we're talking about something like Family Guy or The Simpsons, but GOOD animation uses painted backgrounds.

example 1 example 2 example 3

[edit] oh, I guess Ninjas already made that point

Jesse Moody

I've never watched the series but do think this looks pretty nice. Might check it out off gamefly.

Marine

me = sold

vahl

looks very good, I'm not at all a fan of the series (never even watched it), but I like what I see

bounchfx

I really REALLY wish the environments were cell shaded. that's ruining it for me.

sonic

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that does look nice. sounds like it will be a combination of the current Naruto fighting and adventure games. i just wonder how far through the Naruto story you will get to play.

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It does look very nice. I have the latest Naruto game which was a Japan only release and it covers all the characters through the Shippoden series (all the new episodes after the filler), like older version of Naruto, the other members of Akatsugi, etc, so I'm sure this one will cover up to at least that.