Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2 (2004) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2

"The ultimate ninja battle returns! Battle the best in the land with intense, anime-style head-to-head ninja fighting with over 30 playable characters and 16 unique stages. Choose from more than 60 exciting…

78 30 September 2004

What Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2 is

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2 is a fighting game developed by CyberConnect2 and released in 2004. It was published by Atari Europe. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja, known in Japan as the Naruto: Narutimate Series , is a series of fighting video games, based on the popular manga and anime series Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto. It was developed by CyberConnect2, and published by Bandai and later Bandai Namco Entertainment. The first game was released in 2003 for the PlayStation 2, and was followed by four more titles for the system, as well as five spinoffs for the PlayStation Portable. A follow-up for the PlayStation 3, titled Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm, was the first to feature three-dimensional battles, and began the long-running Storm sub-series. While starting out as a series exclusive to the PlayStation family of systems, the…

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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Naruto series

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2 is the 11th of 86 entries we hold in the Naruto series. The next entry was Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen! 3 in 2004. Its critic score of 78 is 11 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: Ultimate Ninja 2 holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 8 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2 launched on 30 September 2004, within three weeks of Counter-Strike: Source, Rome: Total War, Fable and Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Counter-Strike: Source, Rome: Total War, Fable, Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald.

Cheats and codes

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