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Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact

NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja Impact lets players unleash their honed Jutsu skills through exciting single-player and multiplayer modes. Story Battle lets fans become part of explosive NARUTO SHIPPUDEN…

70 19 October 2011

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact is a hack and slash/beat 'em up, released 19 October 2011 on PlayStation Portable.

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What Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact is

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact was released in 2011. It was published by Namco Bandai Games. It is available on PlayStation Portable only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja Impact lets players unleash their honed Jutsu skills through exciting single-player and multiplayer modes. Story Battle lets fans become part of explosive NARUTO SHIPPUDEN fights straight from the anime with more events and battle sequences than ever before on the PSP. Tag Battle lets two friends connect through Ad-hoc to team up and complete over 20 missions cooperatively, while Versus Battle lets players battle against each other with their persistent customized characters across all modes. Over 20 characters are available to choose from across the NARUTO SHIPPUDEN universe with customization options that carry through each mode within the game
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Naruto series

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact is the 54th of 86 entries we hold in the Naruto series. It arrived 7 months after Naruto Shippuden 3D: The New Era. The next entry was Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations in 2012. Its critic score of 70 is 3 points above the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Legacy at 85.

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How it was received

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 39% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 2 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact launched on 19 October 2011, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Battlefield 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

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When did Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact come out?
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact was released on 19 October 2011 for PlayStation Portable.

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