Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 (2005) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3

NARUTO: Ultimate Ninja 3 makes leaps in the franchise with a host of “firsts” for the series. Players can now live through and be a part of all the major events that defined Story Arc 1 in Heroes History mode…

70 22 December 2005

What Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 is

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 is a fighting game developed by CyberConnect2 and released in 2005. It was published by Bandai. 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 first person perspective. Its themes are action. 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 3 is the 18th of 86 entries we hold in the Naruto series. The next entry was Naruto: Star Students - Ninja Survival in 2005. 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: Ultimate Ninja 3 holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 3 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 72, across 67 votes.

What it launched against

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 launched on 22 December 2005, within three weeks of Kingdom Hearts II, Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones and Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Kingdom Hearts II, Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection.

Cheats and codes

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