Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact Critic Reviews

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact was a complete blast to play and offers plenty of challenges along the way both locally and over Ad-Hoc.

An interesting proposal as an alternative to previous Naruto game, with good production and polished visuals. Maybe its most important vice is that in can result repetitive, a thing that some players may overlook, but other might not.

It captures the essence of the franchise and offers up a lengthy main quest with countless hours of level grinding and card collecting to enjoy afterwards.

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact is a technically flawed game but features some solid gameplay and is better than past Naruto PSP titles.

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact is far too easy and repetitive, and it's got some very poor AI. The cel shaded characters are very nice to see, however, and there are plenty of missions to complete for the die-hard fans of the anime.

Ultimate Ninja Impact is a game that captures the essence of the franchise. It's not perfect, but a step forward.

It's far from flawless, but a step forward when compared to the prequel:a good experience for every Naruto fan, innovative and fun.

Sad, but true: Almost every Naruto game for PSP is better than this one. Weird that this game takes away all of Naruto's flair, so even fans could be very much disappointed by Ultimate Ninja Impact.

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact is a new way to play a Dynasty Warriors game. The boring gameplay, a trademark in the Tecmo Koei's franchise, is the main issue o this tie-in, but if you really do like Naruto you could have a decent amount of enjoyment with this PSP game.

These guys need a wakeup call, now! This once great franchise is completely falling apart. Graphics? Weak. Audio? Even worse. Gameplay? Well, the controls are smooth and the card system is okay, but this is just a bay of good in a sea of bad.

Ultimate Ninja Impact delivers an unexciting action game adaptation of the current Naruto storyline.

This one just doesn't have enough going for it to be legitimately called an "Ultimate Ninja." Maybe next time, Naruto fans.

Part of me wants to really praise Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact for not being what the Naruto fighting games have been, and part of me wants to just play Dynasty Warriors.

Quotation forthcoming.

Namco Bandai and Cyber Connect 2 are usually a winning combination with Naruto games. But with Ultimate Ninja Impact, it really feels like they phoned it in.

Though embracing the Dynasty Warriors style of gameplay could have yielded something with a lot of depth, Ultimate Ninja Impact instead seeks out the path of least complexity and falls well short of telling a compelling Naruto tale.