Product Description

Live the life of a Leaf Ninja as an original story unfolds leaving the fate of the ninja clans in your hands. Unravel the mystery of the Shirogane Clan and their nefarious army of puppet walkers in Story Mode, where you can play alone or with a friend and traverse a lush, 3-D anime-style world in which Naruto and his friends work together to deter the evil threat. Choose your favorite ninja, including Naruto, Shikamaru, Rock Lee, Kakashi, Guy, Neji, Choji, and more, to complete story-driven missions and intense challenges. During the game, a second player is able to join in on the action for a simultaneous two-player adventure! Prove yourself in battle and earn money to create the ultimate warrior using Chips and Plates that can customize your character's speed, strength, stamina and even special moves straight from the series, such as Rasengan, Lightning Blade and Sand Coffin. Want to test your skills? Fight head-to-head with a friend and battle it out to see who's the greatest ninja. Want to gain even more experience and training? Try Mission Mode to take on a series of challenging side missions or Survival Mode to test your skills against an onslaught of powerful enemies using either close combat or long-range weapons, including over 30 attack items that will give you the upper hand in battle. You can also battle it out in Head-to-Head mode where only the best ninja survive. Hone your skills to become the ultimate warrior and unlock a secret chapter of the story. ESRB Rated T for Teen

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4748 in Video Games
• Brand: Namco
• Model: 10066
• Published on: 2007-09
• Released on: 2007-09-04
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platform: PlayStation2
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .50" h x 5.50" w x 7.75" l, .34 pounds

Features

• Live the life of a Leaf Ninja as a new original adventure unfolds leaving the fate of the ninja clans in your hands. Unravel the mystery of the Shirogane Clan and their nefarious army of puppet walkers.
• Choose your favorite ninja including Naruto, Shikamaru, Rock Lee, Kakashi, Guy, Neji, Choji, and more to complete story-driven missions and intense challenges.
• During the game, a second player is able to join in on the action for a simultaneous two-player adventure! Want to prove your skills? Fight head-to-head with a friend and battle it out to see who's got the greatest ninja skill!
• Prove yourself in battle and earn money to create the ultimate warrior using Chips and Plates that can customize your character's speed, strength, stamina and even special moves.
• Harness the power of Rasengan, Lightning Blade, Sand Coffin, and other moves. Face off against multiple enemies using either close combat or long-range weapons, including over 30 attack items that will give you the upper hand in battle.

Amazon.com
A new evil has risen and threatens to take over not only the Hidden Leaf Village, but all the other villages and ninja clans as well. An ancient organization which was long thought disbanded is alive and well and in search of several orbs to resurrect a mechanical horror that will ravage the land. It's now up to Naruto and all the Hidden Leaf Genin to join forces with those of the Hidden Sand Village to stop this menace. Play alone or with a friend in Story Mode where you can traverse a lush, 3-D anime-style world in which Naruto and his friends work together to deter the evil threat. Or, battle it out in Head-to-Head mode where only the best ninja survive. Want to gain even more experience and training. Try Mission Mode to take on a series of challenging side missions or Survival Mode to test your skills against an onslaught of powerful enemies. Hone your skills to become the ultimate warrior and unlock a secret chapter of the story.

Customer Reviews

Great game for Naruto fans, and pretty good for gamers
I am a novice gamer so personally, I enjoyed the first Uzumaki Chronicles. I was challenged in the first one and expecting much more from the second installment. It is true that Naruto Uzumaki Chronicles 2 was much better than the first. The story is original, yet fitting, the music is better and more varied, and there are more characters to play.

The story starts with the Sand Ninja Kankuro and his puppets. He tells Naruto about a puppet wielding clan, the Shirogane Clan and their quest to gather the Spirit Orbs. It's up to you, Naruto, and your friends to unravel the mystery of the clan and the "puppetwalkers" & why they crave wanting the Spirit Orbs so bad.

The fact that you and a friend can play together is a plus. Like any game, it has it's bosses that can be tough. Too tough in fact, so you may need to go with a strategy guide. This game will appeal to all Naruto fans. The cut scenes and the graphics are improved form the first, but still a bit choppy. I guess it's a PS2 thing. The fighting is definitely better and not as predictable or repetitive as the first one. I loved the skill plate system in the first one and it returns here. If you are not an experienced super gamer, but a Naruto, fan this is right up your alley.

Naruto Uzumaki Chronicles 2...........
As disappointed as I was, personally, with the first Uzumaki Chronicles; I wasn't expecting much from the second installment. Yet, I was surprised to find out that Naruto Uzumaki Chronicles 2 was much better. This installment gets things better by making things more cohesive with a deeper storyline(more about that in a moment), a better soundtrack that fits the Naruto Universe, more characters to play, and the skill plate & leveling system.

The story, which is an original storyline-btw, tells about Naruto and his friends investigating the Shirogane Clan's interest in something called the Spirit Orbs. It's up to you and your friends to unravel the mystery of the clan and their 'puppetwalkers' & why they crave wanting the Spirit Orbs so bad.

The only downfall to this game is the same problem that plagued the first game. That problem was the fact that it lacked personality & oomph! and that made the game feel too generic(for lack of a better term) and shallow.

Again, this sequel isn't a bad game. Like any game, it has its' fair share of flaws. It will appeal to the Naruto fanbase, I'm sure, but will be a hard sell to everyone else. If they do decide to continue the series on next-generation consoles, I hope they will work on things and, at least, bring it up to the Xbox 360* Naruto Rise of the Ninja standards. While that game has its' share of flaws too; it, at least, feels more like a Naruto game in its' scope.

Enjoyable Naruto game
I expected the worst because this game got a really score by IGN but then again there have been many low scoring games rated by them that haven't been that bad. With that said, I liked the game. I am familiar with the series so the game filled up part of my expectations.

Graphics: The characters look just like they do in the Anime. The dubbed actors do a decent job with the vocals here. The graphics are decent for the most part again keeping intact how the series looks.

Sound: Sound is great. The music they use fits the environments in the game. As stated they also have the actors do the voices and they seem to have fun with the game.

Challenge: Challenge was ok could have been higher. It's a very easy game for an experience game. With that said, it was still enjoyable to change between characters use their strengths to your advantage.

The story was decent too with the Puppet Walkers and Shirogane clan.

The game comes with a couple of other different modes of play. I got this in the bargain bin part of Blockubuster and for the most part I thought it was worth getting. Definite fun.