Naruto: Clash of Ninja

THE GOOD:
The game is increadibly close to the anime. Beautiful cell shading and face paced fighting. A simple, yet challenging fighting style. While the same attack key is always used you will quickly see that you need to do more than tap the same button over and over to do well. You have to learn to use throws to set up your opponent for your special attack, etc. The simple attack system also promotes the exciting back and forth of ninjas using thier kawarimi no jutsu (they leave a log in thier place and pop up behind thier opponent). A fairly good range of characters. Many disagree but a fair portion of the characters which were introduced prior to the Chuunin Exam episodes are here. From what I've heard the expansion will include foreign ninjas such as Gaara and the Hidden Sound-nins. By the way, try to time it with your friends so that you're starting a throw when they use kawarimi no jutsu. If you do it right the THROW THE LOG!

THE BAD:
I can barely think of anything to put here. I guess the only thing is that you might not like the game so much if you don't already like the anime/manga.

SUMMARY:
I give this game a 4.8 because I personally have found NOTHING wrong with it, but concede that it's audience is somewhat limited stateside. If only they would hurry up and get Naruto licensed over here...