Namco Bandai Reveals Naruto Generations at GamesCom 2011

Posted by Dawn Bryant on August 1, 2011 at 6:55 PM
Tags: Information, Naruto, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360,

We first saw Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations in action at the Japan Expo in Paris, France late June to early July. Then we saw it at Comic Con in San Diego, CA (USA) in mid to late July. Well, now the next Storm event is being organized in Cologne, Germany in this great month of August! Namco Bandai Games has announced Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations will have a place in the video game expo, GamesCom! You are surely wondering if there is going to be a new demo, the same demo, any new information, or footage, right? Well, they haven’t specified in what capacity Generations will be making its German debut. All we know is that it will have some presence. Check out the official press release below.


This year, eager fans will be able to get their hands on the following games: the new role-playing opus from Japan’s FromSoftware, Dark Souls; electrifying airborne shooter Ace Combat: Assault Horizon;the newest unmissable chapter in the smash hit NARUTO saga, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations and the worldwide public playable debut of Ridge Racer Unbounded, which opens a destructive new chapter in the history of the legendary driving franchise.

Dark Souls (X360/PS3)
Release date: October 4 in North America and October 7, 2011 in Europe
A new action-role playing game (RPG) developed by FromSoftware, Dark Souls is the spiritual successor to 2009’s critically acclaimed Demon’s Souls. With tense dungeon crawling and fearsome enemy encounters, the seamlessly intertwined world of Dark Souls is full of extreme battles, rewarding challenges, nuanced weaponry and magic, and the flexibility to customize each character to suit any desired play style.

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon (X360/PS3)
Release date: October 11 in North America and October 14, 2011 in Europe
Ace Combat Assault Horizon introduces a revolutionary close-range assault system that delivers high-speed acrobatics and one-on-one encounters to make dogfights more tense and exciting. Players will engage in combat across the globe, dodging skyscrapers, and turning their enemies into fiery supersonic debris in both single player and online multiplayer.

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations (X360/PS3)
Release date: 2012
Based on the popular animated Naruto Shippuden series and coming to North America in 2012, the title will offer a vast selection of playable & support characters spanning every generation of the NARUTO saga, alongside incredible online functionality to take the NARUTO ninja fight onto the global stage in the much-beloved fighting series.

Ridge Racer Unbounded (X360/PS3/PC)
Release date: 2012
Ridge Racer Unbounded takes the Ridge Racer series in whole new direction by adding a punishing dose of destruction to the familiar arcade gameplay. Players will careen through the competition using their four-wheeled street-racing thoroughbreds as high-octane wrecking machines with a new mantra – Drive, Destroy, Dominate.

GamesCom 2011 will take place at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany August 18-21. NAMCO BANDAI Games’ booth is located in Hall 7, Stand B40.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_L5CQPLEDQ36Q76OY4AIM6LZXNY J

    -_-

  • bigboss1495

    lol

  • Anonymous

    Not sure what to think, I mean they revealed we get a shitton of characters, which is a nice aspect of the game. But I’m hoping they will be able to show us a new engine build with something to behold other than a massive character roster. 

  • Anonymous

    New engine build lol?

    Look at gameplay already released, its just storm 2 with storm 1 and the newer arc characters.

    Although i did read something about them trying to balance the online, but sadly it won’t matter how much they work at it, as long as i can press 2 buttons to do an ultimate, it will never be balanced.

  • http://www.facebook.com/mauricio.friedrichburkhard Mauricio Friedrich Burkhard

    yes but massive character roster is still awesome!!!!! besides a new engine would probably be a little better harder for them to do and well they will take more time, so yey generations!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1116755538 Femi Adams

    As long as Ino has a kick that takes out more damage than an eight tailed cloaked liriat to the chest, it will never be balanced…..

  • Justin Smith

    Your right. What I don’t understand is when they made the second game the main thing they worried about was online play i mean come on. If I was a game developer I’d care more about the overall game play than the online aspect of it. 

  • Justin Smith

    Your right. What I don’t understand is when they made the second game the main thing they worried about was online play i mean come on. If I was a game developer I’d care more about the overall game play than the online aspect of it. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jackson-North/1735904045 Jackson North

    Best comment ever.

  • Chris Blankman

    I’m going to be an asshole and say as long as the combos are scripted and done with one face button, it will never be balanced. I don’t even consider it a fighting game, despite how fun it may be sometimes. It’s not Street Fighter, Tekken or Blazblue… it’s Naruto. I don’t think we’ll ever get a Naruto game, other than Ninja Taisen 4, that comes even relatively close to being competitively balanced. We shouldn’t expect “balance” or depth from the Ultimate Ninja series. We should expect fun. It’s nice that they’re trying though.

  • Anonymous

    I agree with Chris Blankman. I think they shouldn’t worry about the Online mode that much. Playing Naruto with some friends in a local multiplayer is already fun, and as a fan, I want to see ultimate jutsus like the PS2 games or at least like Storm 1, with button mash and everything, but has to be cool and fun to play. We already have others games to play online and compete more serious. Naruto only has to be cool and fun to play!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RD7XBX3ENNGSHCDP3BWDUCIKQY MoneyB

    thumps up if you want kakashi with zabuza’s sword and killer bee with samehada in the game

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1116755538 Femi Adams

    This isn’t youtube there are no thumbs here =__=

  • Anonymous

    Glad enough people agree with me on the gameplay. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1831062034 Jeremiah Azure Flame Neely

    If I can defeat the likes of Raikage, Killerbee, Sasuke, Naruto, Pain, Itachi, and Minato, with characters like Karin, Ten Ten, Sai, Ino, Shino, Sakura, and Konan without spamming, then we can talk about balance.

    But in all seriousness, I’m hyped up so far as to how this game is turning out. For those who’ve seen the footage at SDCC 2011 this year, we know that you can no longer kill an opponent with a grab. That to me is a huge improvement and a big step forward in the combat mechanics. However, Sasuke, as a character himself, was completely overpowered, in terms of speed, strength, and abilities, and it became even more ridiculous with his Susano’o awakening, where arrows that can be shot like a machine gun halfway across the map take out nearly half a bar of health per hit. Though that’s not surprising, considering the fact that Sasuke is an overpowered character in the actual anime/manga. What CC2 needs to do though is to nerf the amount of damage these powerful characters can dish out while keeping their abilities and combos in tact. Also, to help out with the spam issue online, just place jutsu clashes back in the game. That’ll solve that problem real quick.

  • Anonymous

    hi
     everyone go to http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/N… they say the release date is december 31st for japan 2011 and december 31st 2012 for the english air date?????????????????

  • Anonymous

     yeah each of sasukes combos take more than half of the health bar and there are only 2 health bars we need to have 3 health bars for longer battles jutsu clashes for non spamming with rasengan and chidori ect. and for teh combos to take not that much damage.

  • Anonymous

    i dont know about kakashi with zabuza’s sword but yeah killer bee with samehada 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RD7XBX3ENNGSHCDP3BWDUCIKQY MoneyB

    its fake

  • Anonymous

    So I assume there won’t be any new info til Gamescon. I really hope they introduce a new game feature that’ll make us want to buy this instead of revealing more characters. 

  • Anonymous

     yeah its not there anymore

  • dustindodson41

    dude on storm 2 i owned with ino

  • dustindodson41

    dude on storm 2 i owned with ino

  • bigboss1495

    and i owned u with sakura

  • bigboss1495

    i dnt think he will be in the game because he didnt show no move yet and cc2 say there not going to invente new move

  • bigboss1495

    the only still suck it take forever to find a match

  • bigboss1495

    the online still suck and it take forever to find a match and good match no lag

  • Anonymous

    i want awakinings to be selected at the start of a battle but only in free battle. It sucks that you get like 15 seconds to use your awakinigs, or get alonger period of time in awakining state.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002606751642 Hensy Rodriguez

    thing dont like naruto dont give u lot space to fight map are too lil need make bigger like DBZ

  • Anonymous

    u dont make sense

  • Anonymous

    that’s what makes it balanced, the fact that Ino does the same as a lariat. If a Lariat took out a full health bar and ino’s kick took out half of one, then who would ever be Ino. It needs to be balanced for online. Need I remind you how much it sucks to get spammed by deidara, or by sage naruto, they’re overpowerd

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RD7XBX3ENNGSHCDP3BWDUCIKQY MoneyB

    when are they going to get a new scan already

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000800782633 Salvador Ramirez

    so when  is gamescon i know its thuis week but what day?

  • Anonymous

    It tells you right at the end of the article it’s the 18th-21st of August.

  • Anonymous

    As GamesCom nears let’s hope that we see something new from this game. If memory serves, last year’s GamesCom had several playable characters – between 6 & 8 – so let’s hope we get the same again. I’d also really like to see some improved gameplay. So far all we’ve seen are new and old characters running off the UNS2 engine, and even though it’s only been about a month or so since E3, I’d like to know that they are making some changes to the in-game engine or at least bringing back some features of UNS1.