Naruto: The Broken Bond

Sandai Mera

_Broken Bond will pick up where Rise of Ninja left off and will contain the Return of Itachi and Sasuke Retrieval story arcs. There will be 25 playable characters, a new team system, voice acting and music from the original Naruto anime.

Gameplay will be similar to the first game with some minor tweaks. During the story/RPG mode players will take up to three ninja at a time to follow them around and perform certain tasks. Specific characters now have powers that contribute to these tasks, such as Neji's Byakugan to find enemy traps or Naruto's Shadow Clones to get across a small valley. In addition, during a battle in story mode, in the middle of a battle, your character can be switched out with someone else from the team. Also, the landscape in story mode will allow players to experience a more authentic gameplay experience by making the levels more interactive._
IGN's First Look

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/891/891611p1.html

Trailer

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Gameplay videos
http://www.gamespot.com/video/950874/6194571/naruto-the-broken-bond-gameplay-movie-1

http://www.gamespot.com/video/950874/6194573/naruto-the-broken-bond-gameplay-movie-2

http://www.gamespot.com/video/950874/6194574/naruto-the-broken-bond-gameplay-movie-3

Here's hoping this one is less abridged,less glitchy, & less crappy than the first.

Buuhan1

Here's hoping they stop making Narudo games.

I saw videos of the first one, the entire town being constructed and explorable… all I could think was "If only this effort went into something more worthwhile."

Sandai Mera

@Buuhan1:

Here's hoping they stop making Narudo games.

Yeah that's more likely to happen than Atari & Bandai not making anymore DragonBall Z games.

@Buuhan1:

"If only this effort went into something more worthwhile."

Like what?

Buuhan1

I shouldn't have to give an example.

Sandai Mera

:wassat:Yes you do.

RuNa

Yeah, Buuhan1, you actually do (are you meaning One Piece?).

This looks pretty cool, but where are all of the part 2 games (past rescue Gaara)?
If they really want to make a comprehensive Pt1 game, shouldn't there be, I dunno, more characters than 25?

Zkaiser

Hmmmm….Looks whack. I'll give time cause these are early but it still looks whack.

Sandai Mera

@RuNa:

This looks pretty cool, but where are all of the part 2 games (past rescue Gaara)?

The anime hasn't gotten to part two yet so it'll be awhile before we start seeing an influx of those games (on these shores).

Zkaiser

Plus part 1 is the best part of Naruto.

Toshiya

Maybe there gonna do the whole DLC for more characters like they did with the first one.

I'll get this one since I liked the first one but I only rented it since it felt incomplete.

RuNa

@Sandai:

The anime hasn't gotten to part two yet so it'll be awhile before we start seeing an influx of those games (on these shores).

It's not even that, I'm talking about Japanese games as well. Every part 2 game has stopped short of Hidan and Kakuzu and there's been like 7 of them. They made 2 SND games that didn't even go past the orochimaru/sasuke arc. Another RPG is coming out in Japan (something like Naruto vs. Sasuke) and it STILL doesn't go past their meeting >_>;

One Piece, on the other hand, had Franky in the crew in OPUA WAY before the anime had him join. Brook was revealed to be in OPUC (in the crew might I add) before he even appeared in the anime.

@Zkaiser:

Plus part 1 is the best part of Naruto.

Well, that's a pretty large chunk to consider "the best", but as far as I am concerned, the best "parts" are individual scenes and characters, not whole arcs.

Sandai Mera

@RuNa:

One Piece, on the other hand, had Franky in the crew in OPUA WAY before the anime had him join. Brook was revealed to be in OPUC (in the crew might I add) before he even appeared in the anime.

Is this trip really necessary?

RuNa

@Sandai:

Is this trip really necessary?

I could type One Piece: Unlimited Adventure or ワンピース：アンリミテッドアドベンチャー but of course, the abbreviation is much easier when I cam talking about the game instead of having to type "One Piece" 3 times…

Sandai Mera

I meant One Piece & Naruto in the same place.

RuNa

@Sandai:

I meant One Piece & Naruto in the same place.

Oh, ok, lol

Sandai Mera

[phew]Bloodshed was avoided.

Tsugumi-ken

Wow,we are now just getting another Naruto game. When, we were just getting Ultimate Storm. Seriously when I first saw thios trailer I was disappointed and the graphics have not impriove very much, Imean I know they are still within development but man it reallly feels ike the same game, only with other playable characters.in storymode. The Ps3 version looks much better IMO.

Sandai Mera

If the graphics look the same they should considering this is the sequel to Rise Of A Ninja.

Sandai Mera

BUMP

Demo is on live (been there since the 30th).

Uh and eventhough it's a bit belated

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Zkaiser

I'll stick to my NUNS, thank you.

Jinbei

That 2nd clip with Oro was cool.

@Tsugumi-ken:

Wow,we are now just getting another Naruto game. When, we were just getting Ultimate Storm. Seriously when I first saw thios trailer I was disappointed and the graphics have not impriove very much, Imean I know they are still within development but man it reallly feels ike the same game, only with other playable characters.in storymode. The Ps3 version looks much better IMO.

They need to slow down with the Naruto games. I liked some of them but this is ridiculous. One right after another its a never ending cycle. After on Naruto game comes out two weeks later theres another one ready to take its place!!!!! Thats not cool at all.

Sandai Mera

@Kiro:

After on Naruto game comes out two weeks later theres another one ready to take its place!!!!! Thats not cool at all.

But they're for different platforms so they're justified not to mention these games are being made by 3 different companies.

Cyborg009

played the demo and it looks great! i always wanted to give that good-for-nothing snake breath orochimaru a good beating.