Naruto Storm 3: Stage, Character Select Screen, New Footage

Posted by Natalie Robinson
Tags: Naruto, PlayStation 3, Videos, Xbox 360,

The guys over at News 10 had the opportunity to interview Jason Enos, Senior Global Brand Manager at Namco Bandai Games America at an event in San Francisco, CA. There, Namco Bandai had on display a demo featuring the character select screen of over 80 characters (most of who were locked and blocked out) as well as the stage select screen with what Saiyan Island counted to be 40 stages. Naruto Storm Generations had 38, but we’ve seen quite a few new stages for Storm 3, so the screen shown may either not be final or have options to see more. Namco has already mentioned there will be over 80 playable characters.

Thanks Mohammad Katerji!

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Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 is Namco Bandai Games and CyberConnect2′s fourth entry in the Storm series. It will be available for the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360 in North America and South America on March 5, Europe and Australia on March 8, and Japan on April 18, 2013. The story for the game will begin with the Nine Tailed Fox incident from 16 years ago, continue on to the Five Kage Arc, and go up to the Shinobi War, covering the latest episodes of Naruto Shippuden as they air in Japan.

  • Bardock – SSJ2

    YES YES THANK BANDAI YOU HEARD MY WISH /(^O^)

  • http://twitter.com/roy_thuis Roy Thuis

    It’s about a character called Naruto, trying to become the Ultimate Ninja… oh and they also added some Storm in it..

  • http://www.facebook.com/dewayne.glass Dewayne Glass

    awesome that alot of empty slots.

  • Koura

    88 char.s from which 7 is support only, and 40 stages. Hmm, not bad at all! :D

  • http://www.facebook.com/dewayne.glass Dewayne Glass

    40 stages awesome

  • http://www.facebook.com/dewayne.glass Dewayne Glass

    so the blue is support only char. i thought every char. will be playable.

  • NeoBahamut

    I saw this about two hours ago, I was wondering if it was new or not… Actually the fact that the game doesn’t give you everything from the beginning and you have to work for it is pretty awesome! Also I heard that they were doing support characters again, which sucks! Cause what’s the use of having a character there if you can’t control him? I really wanted to play with Darui and Anko in Generations, but they were just in the background…

  • http://twitter.com/TinyBannanaBone Justin Ackley

    The way he pronounced Akatsuki made me hurt..

  • saar azari

    there 88 playable character according to picture and according to video naruto rasen shurikan is back and kabuto original form is back… what make me sad is that there no slots for KCM naruto or BM naruto as playable character )-:

  • narutopiece1

    Madara Uchiha has been confirmed, He is on the final cover of ‘True Dispair Edition’ along with Tobi, and Kabuto :D

  • Bardock – SSJ2

    Uh, I really see no point support characters only, all should be playable, but still THIS GAME WILL BE AWESOME /(^O^)

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XMK52OBCP7OC3ZKJRBNBZ22WTQ Pain

    Yeah !

  • http://www.facebook.com/dewayne.glass Dewayne Glass

    i agree dude.

  • Bardock – SSJ2

    Its an awakening mode, and bijo mode should be an awakening mode for Kyubi mode Naruto /(^O^)

  • http://www.facebook.com/dewayne.glass Dewayne Glass

    really thats great.

  • Aleksa Ilic

    where you saw that?

  • http://www.facebook.com/eliyahzachyeshey Eliyah Zach Yeshe

    YES!!

  • http://twitter.com/alexbip15 Alexandre Gesnot

    There is an empty slot between the “Naruto”‘s, you know?

  • Edtheman

    It looks like the locked characters have their respective village logos over their space, that’s pretty cool but it’s going to do my head in trying to guess who goes where when I’m unlocking them aha

  • Javier de Prada

    Some characters would be good for support only such as Izumo and Kotetsu

  • http://www.facebook.com/kooliekyd.sitcheron Koolie Kyd Sitcheron

    40 more days!!!!!

  • Tyler Casilio

    Can I get a link to where you found that. I believe you I just want to see how he looks

  • http://twitter.com/alexbip15 Alexandre Gesnot

    My guess this screen is the one you’ll get when you startup the game before unlocking anybody.

  • http://www.facebook.com/shinzante Andrea Paulesu

    Yeah, i don’t get why they had to put the old Kabuto in this game ò_ò

  • Hiroshi Matsumoto

    Matsuyama Said That All Characters Are Playable And That There’re Going To Be No Support Only’s So If It’s 88 It’s 88 ;’DDD

  • http://www.facebook.com/kooliekyd.sitcheron Koolie Kyd Sitcheron

    ye i realized too all i know its going to be so fun :)

  • Hiroshi Matsumoto

    Where’d You Get This Info? O.o

    Can I Have A Link?

  • XGriever

    he never said this.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XMK52OBCP7OC3ZKJRBNBZ22WTQ Pain

    Please give us the link ! :D

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/IRUIOW2EBHAFFS2JRQDXCF7F4Q Sky

    ebgames(dot)com(dot)au
    in the search copy and paste Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 3: True Despair Edition
    scroll down, there is a picture of Madara in the background of the cover for Storm 3

  • http://twitter.com/Ricardo_04 Ricardo

    So, Naruto Kyuubi Chakra Mode ( level 1 ) will be a playable character?

  • Hiroshi Matsumoto

    He Said It Right At The Beginning Of When Storm 3 Had Just Been Announced So Search Up And Down SaiyanIsland

  • Daniele Prati

    Are you sure? I hope you’re right ^^

  • Tyler Casilio

    READ*******Bijuu Mode or KCM May Be Playable Seperate Character!!! Look at the slot in between Naruto and the other Naruto. It’s empty! This could either be a new Sage mode, which I doubt KCM, or Bijuu Mode!

  • Hiroshi Matsumoto

    Yeah I’m Sure, Trust Me? ;DD

  • XGriever

    no he didnt, there are support only characters, the blue squares are for support only characters. you will see :P

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Iknowwhen-Yoursleeping/100003355762559 Iknowwhen Yoursleeping

    What if blue slots are reserved for jinjurikis ? We can see Bee nearby…

  • Aadam Hanif

    i hope they add more charcters

  • Hiroshi Matsumoto

    Oh So Bee As We Can See Who’s On One Of The Blue Squares Is A Support Only Character Are You Serious? LMAOO Nah, Brah… He Did Say That & I Doubt Bee Would Be A Support Only.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2P4PUH52YW6UHRYJFQA57NJUW4 Alex Marrero

    80 was the final projection given by Namco Bandai already.

  • XGriever

    Bee is at the side of the blue squares he isnt one of them
    he never said it. support characters will be in…i bet you a tenner XD

  • seth2108

    seven swordsmen are not playable :( ((

  • D3struckt13

    Or the blue slots can be the jinchuriki slots idk

  • Tyler Casilio

    I think those Blue slots aren’t Support but the Jinchuriki. There’s 7 Slots. 6 Jinchuriki, Bee is there. Who could be the 1 last slot? Madara maybe? don’t know

  • Hiroshi Matsumoto

    Nah I Think He’s On Top Of One, There’re Eight Places There… Nibi, Sanbi, Yonbi, Gobi, Rokubi, Nanabi, Hachibi (Bee), Kyuubi (TBM Naruto? Seperate Char?)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2P4PUH52YW6UHRYJFQA57NJUW4 Alex Marrero

    My ears bled every time he attempted to pronounce any names.

  • narutopiece1

    go to www(dot)ebgames(dot)com(dot)au
    Then type Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 True Despair Edition, then scroll down.
    Now you can Thank me.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2P4PUH52YW6UHRYJFQA57NJUW4 Alex Marrero

    The blue is probably either secret characters or empty slots just filled in so it doesn’t look awkward.

  • D3struckt13

    I said the same thing at the same time as you lol

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2P4PUH52YW6UHRYJFQA57NJUW4 Alex Marrero

    Who said anything about support only? What’s with this baseless presumption? The blue are most likely secret characters or empty slots that are filled in so it doesn’t look awkward.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Iknowwhen-Yoursleeping/100003355762559 Iknowwhen Yoursleeping

    Yeah I believe so too. Maye the last slot is for Naruto kurama mode as a separate character.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2P4PUH52YW6UHRYJFQA57NJUW4 Alex Marrero

    He’s on the side dude… that space is more then likely not blue.

  • http://twitter.com/MurryEggplant MurryEggplant

    88 playable character’s nice

  • XGriever

    hmm well we do know that each square has a symbol that represents that characters village that they originate from..all them blue squares do seem to have a diffrent symbol though there is one from Konoha…so if your theory about them being the tailed beasts are correct then that would put another Naruto in that slot with Bijuu Mode..which i highly doubt. but guess we will have to wait and see bub.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2P4PUH52YW6UHRYJFQA57NJUW4 Alex Marrero

    They look like empty slots to me, just filled in so the screen doesn’t look awkward.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kooliekyd.sitcheron Koolie Kyd Sitcheron

    i think the blue slots are the 7 swordsmen

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2P4PUH52YW6UHRYJFQA57NJUW4 Alex Marrero

    Who said?

  • http://twitter.com/devaughn92 devaughn chambers

    I hope they add Lars back in this.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2P4PUH52YW6UHRYJFQA57NJUW4 Alex Marrero

    We don’t know if KCM is a separate character, he’s only been confirmed as an Awakening with an updated moveset. The screenshot of him clearly shows he’s awakened based on the fact that the blue ball next to the chakra bar is lit.

  • http://www.facebook.com/dewayne.glass Dewayne Glass

    i saw it yes hes in the game

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2P4PUH52YW6UHRYJFQA57NJUW4 Alex Marrero

    Because Matsuyama said they were putting all shippuden characters that have appeared in a Storm game into this one.

    Want to know really why? Because it’s convenient to copy and paste characters then say 80+. It makes the game look better.

  • UN4Ever

    content9(dot)ebgames(dot)com(dot)au / website / images / detail / 160523_detail_v39(dot)jpg
    delete spaces and dots :)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2P4PUH52YW6UHRYJFQA57NJUW4 Alex Marrero

    Hmm… blue spots are interesting. i don’t think they are support only. i wonder what they are. Best guess is like someone said, the Jinchuriki considering Bee is right there.

  • Tyler Casilio

    OH WOW! Yeah Confirmed you guys! He’s in!!!

  • Bardock – SSJ2

    I know, I was talking about that it should be Naruto’s awakening instead of a separate character that would be too OP O_O

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2P4PUH52YW6UHRYJFQA57NJUW4 Alex Marrero

    Lol, fair enough. I would still love him to be separate then have the full Kurama cloak as his awakening.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XMK52OBCP7OC3ZKJRBNBZ22WTQ Pain

    I didnot see, please give me the link :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/dewayne.glass Dewayne Glass

    yeah i just saw it too march is so far away lol.

  • Tyler Casilio

    I think it’s the Jinchuriki and Madara/ KCM or BM Naruto

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-WmpoP6ZSs Kira

    88 char and 40 Stages Good very Very Good im anxious to play the game

  • Hiroshi Matsumoto

    Screw You And Your Tenner LOOL
    I Don’t Need It, But If There’s Support That Sucks :/

    I Could’ve Sworn I Heard Or Saw Matsuyama Say That There Wouldn’t Be Support
    Only’s In Storm3 :/

  • http://www.facebook.com/randy.salobir Randy Salobir

    Sweet. They render the chars in the char select screen instead of only showing a picture of them now. I like.

  • naruto uzumaki

    FINE NEWS!!! THANKS BRO :D

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2P4PUH52YW6UHRYJFQA57NJUW4 Alex Marrero

    It does sound familiar, but I can’t remember for sure.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eliyahzachyeshey Eliyah Zach Yeshe

    Thx dude. YES!!

  • Menma Uzumaki

    Thats Tobi, not Madara. He has the Rinnegan mask on. Madara has yet to be confirmed, there was a fake scan of him a while ago.

  • Tyler Casilio

    MADARA IS IN!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2P4PUH52YW6UHRYJFQA57NJUW4 Alex Marrero

    Nice little touch.

  • UN4Ever

    Character select screen now look like Tekken wich i love it! :)

  • Hashirama-Mito

    COME AT ME MARCH 5TH!

  • uchihalord1994

    Nop! look at the sides of of tobi! there’s kabuto and madara (:

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2P4PUH52YW6UHRYJFQA57NJUW4 Alex Marrero

    Madara is in the background with Snake Kabuto.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000328444479 Jonathan Rivera Almodovar

    Madara has been confirmed in the game

  • Hiroshi Matsumoto

    See ;DDD Nice Deducting Skills, Watson! ;DD … Tbh, I Really Hope It Is The Jinchuuriki, If So Then It Means That BM Naruto Definitely Is A Separate Character, But I Highly Doubt He’d Be A Separate Char, Also… But Yeah, Good Job, Watson! ;DD

  • http://twitter.com/uchiha_damian20 Damian Uchiha

    Madara’s confirmed.,there’s no doubt about it. This cover made my day:P

  • naruto uzumaki

    MAN!!!!! they are tooo tooo late with this INFO i ALREADY saw this video on youtube 8 hrs ago posted by PS 360HD2 BESIDES he posted A video for the full cover of the true despair edition that TOTALLYYYY CONFIRMSS UCHIHAA MADARA!!!!!!!!!! now go to his channel nd see by your eyes…. his name on youtube is PS 360HD2

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KMVC2AHUM6A6GYY2VMIFBFBGIU SuperdeadlyKing

    yes im glad to see the old characters return =D

  • Hashirama-Mito

    uchiha madara? o.o whats?????

  • pjrene

    It´s real, it has to be. If this website is faking it, then is see a big problem coming to ebgames XD Just go to the website and search for the true despair edition.

  • Tommy Faust

    You dummy, they know tobi is the one in front with the mask, madara is clearly there in the background to the left of tobi/obito…

  • Javier de Prada

    This game comes in the same month as my birthday…
    perfect…(evil laugh)

  • XGriever

    lol actually looking at it again its made me more certain its for support only since there 7 support only characters from gen that arent PTS that will be carried over… and theres actually 2 Konoha symbols and the rest would go:

    1) Fu
    2) Torune
    3) Kurosutchi
    4) Akatsuchi
    5) Chojuro
    6) Ao
    7) Cee

    Fits Perfectly.

  • Tommy Faust

    Watch cc2 totally troll and make madara support only. Oh how hard we woukd rage

  • D3struckt13

    To be honest, I expected the storm series covers to have sasuke and Naruto every time with others revolving them to show their difference in growth.. But now Sasuke is only a figure or in the usa cover at the lower bottom :/

  • Tommy Faust

    Saiyan island needs to upload the officialmcovers for the true despair and will of fire editions like now, especially since they confirm madara basically. Its a shame the us isnt getting them, they look amazing

  • pjrene

    I also think the blue ones will be support only characters and the Konoha symbol might be for Kushina?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U7MU5OUS7FIH575VT4PNZNIDXU jermar

    Forget that slot, look at the slot next to the second naruto on the right side, its bright yellow. There’s your answer.

  • karasuKumo

    What did Kabuto do at around 2:20? Is that a new feature?

  • Hiroshi Matsumoto

    Lol Oh, Really? … Ohhh~ That Makes A Lot More Sense, Good Job, Watson! *Thumbs Up* … Should Totally Pass This Around.;DD

  • Madara Uzumaki

    Hmm…I see here 2 overlighted images and 1 blue spot with konoha sign…Which one is KCM Naruto? xD

  • pjrene

    Woah woah woah wait a minute. So this changes everything. I just watched the video and saw them playing as characters like Naruto (4 Tails Kyubi Cloak) and Kabuto without his Snake Cloak. That means the characters from Generations minus the PTS will be in it too?

  • http://twitter.com/2Sykz Professional

    Its the 7 jinjuriki taking naruto and gaara

  • http://twitter.com/2Sykz Professional

    I heard the same thing no supports or pts chars it jinjuriki spots not cluding gaara and naruto gaara aint got his talied beast

  • Madara Uzumaki

    Still weird what Kabuto did at 2:20…and the Konoha mark from the blue spot…maybe Kushina or KCM Naruto?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U7MU5OUS7FIH575VT4PNZNIDXU jermar

    To play devils advocate there is no way to tell if bee is on the blue or green square. He could be simply next to it. Ive kept up with this from the beginning and dont remember him saying all char. would be playable. On the other hand I dont remember him saying there will be support char. in the game either. Why, why couldn’t they just make all the slots green.

  • Koura

    It’s because the game is going to be 3D compatible!

  • Koura

    The slots have a symbol on them, the symbol of the character’s village. I didn’t know there were 2 jinchuuriki’s from Kohoha…

  • Koura

    That seems to be the case.

  • manoahvdvelde

    Thanks for the confirmation :D

  • Koura

    And two of them are from Konoha…Yeah right…

  • http://www.facebook.com/dewayne.glass Dewayne Glass

    there got to be jinchurikis.

  • Caique Justino Deodato

    This 7 chars are not support, is the jinchurikis (look in the right side of Killer Bee).

  • http://www.facebook.com/adrian.alfred.3 Adrian Alfred

    Can someone tell me what is the latest episode the one in the english subbed or Naruto manga

  • http://www.facebook.com/dewayne.glass Dewayne Glass

    yeah and i think naruto kmc will be playable too.

  • Millsuperman

    Bummer that they have chidori true spear sasuke could’ve gave his spot to someone more important

  • SaskeAdri

    yeah i thought that too, would be great if the game has 88 characters to play!

  • Дмитрий Нагато

    In game will be small characters?

  • SaskeAdri

    could be possible, would fit in

  • Jez

    that mark could be some part 1 characters? that mark opens new little window of part 1 guys?

  • Damian Pawłowski

    I hate that thing, I see it many times ,,MORE THAN 80 PLAYABLE CHARACTERS!!” yeah right there are 81 playable characters :

  • Koura

  • kisame007

    i don’t want to say it but i think the 7 support-only in there might be the seven swordsman of the mist

  • Al D.

    Wait… old-ass Kabuto and Kankuro? Chunin Exams stage? Is that really necessary?

  • kyle jackson

    Seriously? There was no one better to do the interview? Idk,someone who has heard of naruto more then this guy who learned 4 minutes before the interview. Manga episodes?!?!?! Really?!

  • TCh

    XD i can see different village symbols on the character slots XD awesome :D

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/SABIK5MDEDEIZJBB3YEVGMGNHM Alex Boehm

    .. I cringe each time the mispronounce things and know NOTHING about the game. “His name is naruto and and wants to be the ultimate ninja”

    wow..

  • http://www.facebook.com/ilija.tuzlak.5 Ilija Tuzlak

    Yea the blue one are reserved for the jinchuriki it seems every has another badge sign :D

  • Mohamed Rayani

    do i have to pre order the game now to get naruto goku hinata road to ninja sakura swimsuit sasuke road to ninja armour naruto madara and anbu kakshi e.t.c

  • Narutotiger9

    this guy cant say akatsuki right lol he has no idea what he is saying

  • Jez

    But two jinchuriki`s are from Rock Village i cant see two rock badges ( Han and Roushi both are rock village jinchuriki)

  • swago

    so no shizune

  • http://www.facebook.com/dewayne.glass Dewayne Glass

    i remember matsuyama did said it wouldnt be any supports characters in this game.

  • NARUTOxANKO

    Nice 88 character and 40 stages :O

    looks good but what about the blue slots :/ hope secret character or something, because i want this game without Supports i want to play with EVERYONE (Anko <3)

  • http://twitter.com/ICETEE94 Raphael Rozos

    Team 7

    1. Naruto (9 Tail Rasengan/Rasenshuriken)
    2. Naruto Sage Mode (Hokage Jacket)
    3. Naruto 5KS (KCM/Bijuu Mode)
    4. Sakura
    5. Sai
    6. Kakashi
    7. Yamato

    Team 10

    8. Shikamaru
    9. Ino
    10. Chouji

    Team 8

    11. Hinata
    12. Kiba
    13. Shino

    Team Gai

    14. Neji
    15. Tenten
    16. Lee
    17. Gai

    Taka

    18. Sasuke (Chidori Spear/ Kirin)
    19. Taka Sasuke
    20. Susano’o Sasuke (EMS)
    21. Karin
    22. Suigetsu
    23. Jugo

    Sand Village:

    24. Gaara
    25. Temari
    26. Kankuro

    Kage

    27. Hashirama
    28. Tobirama
    29. Hiruzen
    30. Minato
    31. Tsunade
    32. Danzo
    33. Mei
    34. A
    35. Ohnoki

    Akatsuki

    36. Deidara (Edo)
    37. Sasori (Edo)
    38. Itachi (Edo)
    39. Kisame
    40. Hidan
    41. Kakuzu (Edo)
    42. Konan
    43. Pain
    44. Tobi

    Jinchuuriki

    45. Yugito
    46. Yagura
    47. Roshi
    48. Han
    49. Utakata
    50. Fu
    51. Bee
    52. Bee w/Samehada

    Edo Tensei

    53. Haku
    54. Zabuza
    55. Jinin Akebino
    56. Mangetsu Hozuki
    57. Kushimaru Kuriarare
    58. Jinpachi Munashi
    59. Ameyuri Ringo
    60. Fuguki Suikazan
    61. Kinkaku
    62. Ginkaku
    63. Kimimaro
    64. Chiyo
    65. Hanzo
    66. Nagato
    67. Asuma

    War Villains

    68. Rinnegan Tobi
    69. Kabutomaru (Dragon Sage Mode)
    70. Madara

    Edo Kage

    71. Third Raikage
    72. Second Mizukage
    73. Second Tsuchikage
    74. Fourth Kazekage

    Shinobi Alliance

    75. Darui
    76. Mifune

    Other

    77. Jiraiya
    78. Orochimaru
    79. Kabuto
    80. Masked Man

    Support Only

    81. Kurotsuchi
    82. Akatsuchi
    83. Choujuro
    84. Ao
    85. Cee
    86. Fu
    87. Torune

  • http://www.facebook.com/dewayne.glass Dewayne Glass

    you like lars

  • swago

    ok but what about shizune anko they were in gen support

  • swago

    should they be playable ill be happy

  • Harry Burt

    oh god the guy in the video is a complete idiot….
    and if there is seriously support only characters in this game then i will be so pissed off
    im just not getting my hopes up, this game is letting me down as it is…. GIVE KONOHA 11 NEW MOVES ALREADY !!

  • MySusanooIsPurple

    emo side lol

  • James

    Holy crap! This is gonna be the best naruto game. Theres so many new characterss to play as.

  • efge

    Hopefully madaras pretty epic in the game like the jutsus not like lame !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now all we need is the 3rd kage MU!!!!!!! Itachi , nagato that is it but i wish they have kakashi gaiden for fun but i guess not or obito when he was a kid .. i belive zetsu is confirmed righT? also hopefully narutos mom well probably not i guess but still.

  • efge

    well said i want everyone to be playable! all they need is itachi nagato and mu !

  • efge

    The game is sick 40 stages is good but i wish there were more but i guess its good enough…? hopefully u can unlock stages … i just want TO KNOW THE NEW MODE IN THIS GAME HOPEFULLY ITS CO OP OR SOMETHING FUNNNN U CAN DO AGAIN AND AGAIN

  • efge

    one improvment needed is when walking as naruto , they need to make him run he walks too sloww and they should let you jump on trees buildings and throw shurikens

  • efge

    no :( probably

  • efge

    who are the suppoirt

  • efge

    hopefully KAKASHI has new movesets hopefully kamui nah im jk but movesets need to be updated no joke

  • SalvadorRamirez

    Oh wow this is fuckung awesome like last years with generations. But this time the character screen is beautiful even the character models did well with the stages and can’t wait for moe to be announced

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003337137556 Jayzero Rodriguez

    I THINK I SEE KCM V1 NARUTO AS A CHARACTER if u look at the right corner of the character selection screen pic

  • Haoshoku_Haki

    hell no my country wouldn’t fake it man. Madara must be in!

  • http://www.facebook.com/ilija.tuzlak.5 Ilija Tuzlak

    yea my bad then it will be probaly some support characters :D

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=726020314 Vu Chan Tran

    the 7 special slots could be for DLCs….

  • http://twitter.com/FPMarco94 Marco

    madara is in when we see a gameplay video of him then i say he’s in

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=726020314 Vu Chan Tran

    81 characters + 7 special slots for either DLCs or supports

  • Guest

    yea probaly edo nagato will be in it to i hope so :D

  • http://www.facebook.com/ilija.tuzlak.5 Ilija Tuzlak

    all character from storm 2 return exept lars and now plus the new ones :D

  • Brock

    No the characters which had blue over them were the other jinchuuriki. There are 9 jinchuuriki naruto was there bee was there and next to bee there was 7 characters that had obviously been blocked out. :D DD I dont think there are any support only yay

  • Sheharyar Ali

    ‘Nine-Tails Chakra Mode’ Naruto isn’t an awakening form.. But it’s playable. I saw that his health was near full when he was using the Nine Tails’ chakra, so it can’t be an awakening…

  • http://www.facebook.com/mohammad.katerji.9 Mohammad Katerji

    Yay Thanks for giving credit to me SI!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U7MU5OUS7FIH575VT4PNZNIDXU jermar

    First, I want to congratulate you for figuring out that its actually 87 and not 88. As for the list, I completely agree accept bee and sasori. Since sasori is going to have a different move set, then he’s most likely going to be in a seperate character slot like bee w/samehada would be, which would pose a problem number wise. However, since they dont usually separate the same characters if they have the same awakening, then there’s a chance that they’re going to be in the same character slot which would mean we have 1 unknown character. In either case we have a number problem.

  • madara_da

    7 special characters are Jinchuuriki

  • madara_da

    so 81 characters plus 7 jinchuuriki

  • Utakata

    I highly doubt those blue squares are support only. They are probably for the 7 swordmen of the mist, or maybe for the 7 jinchuriki minus gaara and naruto

  • Utakata

    No it dosent actually. There would need to be 2 iwagakure symbols, which there isnt. And there isnt a kirigakure symbol

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1420909726 Christian Capitula

    They definitely stepped it up for this game. I’m impressed. My biggest issue was half of the stages were just generic locations, now it looks like that’s solved.

  • madara_da

    …or maybe they are 7 swordmen of the mist(blue squares)

  • http://www.facebook.com/ilija.tuzlak.5 Ilija Tuzlak

    it can they have now instant awekenings and KCM naruto is 1 of them :D

  • http://twitter.com/ICETEE94 Raphael Rozos

    anko

  • llantern

    if madara is a support…………………. someone will pay ._.

  • http://sendoclanpsn.webs.com/ Hason Peart

    I don’t those 7 spots are support, I hope those are the tailed beast hosts because it would make sense

  • HawkEyedSage

    LMAO!!!!!!

  • http://twitter.com/firebrainjp jourdan penn

    I freakin love the new character selection how its not just a picture up there lol

  • madara_da

    i think that they are going to make naruto shippudden ultimate ninja storm 4.

  • konanNobito

    This game will be awsome but I only have 35 bucks saved

  • Brock

    I think that you will find there are no support only characters.. i say this because most likely they are the 6 other jinchuuriki characters and madara or hidden characters/DLC. And if they are support oly characters CC2 better watch there backs especially if these ”support onlys” are kunoichi as usual. Need more females

  • UpgradeJ

    Guys they already announced the kurama shroud form for Naruto, in the
    series he doesn’t get that until after madara fights the 5 kages. Madara will be
    in the game you don’t need an image to convince you, logic will do that
    for you.

  • konanNobito

    How do you know they’re is only 7 support only characters?

  • Brock

    NOT KUROTSUCHI!!!!

    *Gets in a corner and sobs for hours on end*

  • Michael

    I think it’s all jinchuuriki including bijuu mode naruto.

  • KonohamaruKun_99

    Perhaps the blue slots are for future DLC characters?

    Who knows. And who so you think the alot between ino and choji will be?

  • Aldridge517

    80+ = >85

  • Brock

    Probs another from of choji

  • Brock

    Same here

  • Brock

    That makes sense!!!

  • Brock

    What about shizune and anko 0____0

  • Brock

    Anko all the way <333

  • Brock

    Shizune for sure!! :D DD

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001602722832 Tyler Sims

    I don’t know what those 7 blue slots are but I’m not too sure they are the jinchuuriki , even if one does had a leaf symbol. I make this assumption because even though bee is right next to those slots there are still 7 and both gaara and naruto are already on the roster. Now I’m not sure but maybe they’re added bonus character or maybe even jinchuuriki that include gaara with shukaku or maybe normal naruto with kurama or even bm naruto with chakra kurama as giant awakening

  • pjrene

    Hm but what is the icon on the low left corner? It doesn´t look like a character to me.

  • izanamiuchiha

    so excited for this game

  • Baryll

    e _e
    Y U SHOW OLD CHARACTERS ONLY.
    AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHY IS THE CAMERA ON SOME KLUTZ WHO DOESN’T KNOW HALF OF WHAT HE’S TALKING ABOUT, INSTEAD OF THE GAME PLAY.

  • TCh

    the blue blocks cant be supports :) when he selected a character they didnt flip over XD i bet its somthing really cool! :D

  • Rikudo_sennin77

    Considering that generations didn’t have 88 characters (I believe it was more like 70?) and the fact they’re taking out all the pre-Shippuuden characters, 88 is gonna be a lot. I’m expecting the 7 swordsmen to be in there. Also, it’s really blurry but you can still make out the fact that the 7 blue boxes all have different village signs, which I believe it can only be the 6 jinchuriki and Tobi in the middle.
    If memory serves me right they said there wouldn’t be any support only slots this time around.

  • unleashrage

    The guy can’t even say akatsuki correctly lol.

  • uchihas finist

    thats the random character slot smart one….

  • Ruseo

    those damn a cot sooki forces!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001602722832 Tyler Sims

    Exactly it would’ve been better letting any of us explaining naruto better than the guy who says naruto wants to become the ultimate ninja

  • uchihas finist

    not really alot of those characters might be in the game since some fought in the war… there is 7 boxes for all 6 of the Jinchuuriki most likely, garra wont be there of course because he doesnt really count anymore and TB has to be a seprate character, with his awakening to be Tailed beast mode, because the other mode before he got the jacket and was just yellow is going to be the awakening for the naruto in generations. So the new naruto has to be TB and new sasuke is EMS sasuke. we are looking at at least 4 seprate sasukes and narutos not including the costumes. so anyway point is they said over 80 characters, and nothing about support so lets hope they go with it

  • ANBUSASUKE

    that dude in the video just pronounced like every name wrong

  • *Super~Sayian*

    lol

  • TCh

    i honestly think the blue blocks on the character selection are special characters :) because when they chose there character noe fliped over, so hopfull its a FULL 88 :)

  • narutobleachop

    It’s actually and actually and Nahrootoe fighting Ahkatsooku and actually Nahrootoe Ahkatsooku. lol Namco Bandai America, your staff is so fail.

  • guest

    guys..look at the first blue square..its konoha..so it cant be 7 swordman of the mist..

  • sam

    I only see tobi on the cover must have been a mistake, on the AU site too.

  • Anderson Sanpai

    i’m just going to say this now OBITO & OMOI

  • Baryll

    “Naruto wants to be an ultimate ninja”
    Sir, just because the game says ‘Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm’ doesn’t mean that he want’s to…y’know

  • Ruseo

    darn ah cot sooki faction

  • Rick Lee

    STORM 3 WON’T HAVE SUPPORT CHARACTERS. -_-
    Those 7 blue slots are the jinchurikis

  • MasterGamer

    finally their is jutsu custimization!! you can see it 4:19!

  • Sasori434

    hmmm…. Wondering what that blue square in the bottom left corner is on the character selection…. Or the 7 blue squares on the bottom….. Im loving the village symbols for the unlocked characters :3

  • Sasori434

    I seem team choosing…. where do you see jutsu customization?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U7MU5OUS7FIH575VT4PNZNIDXU jermar

    You just reminded me of something. I thought someone was missing from this list, but i couldn’t thing of who. Kid Obito and Kakashi, which I’m sure are going to be in it. But being that he has already filled the list, the only people I can think of that he can take out to make the list right according to the info we have from CC2 is the 1st and 2nd hokage. Since their part 1 characters only and Kishi said no part 1 they may not be in it. These are the only logical two I can think to take out.

  • http://twitter.com/ronniesdabeast Ronald Ramos

    I’m pretty sure CC2 mentioned something about Elements, or something like that, that must be it. (The character slots)

  • izanamiuchiha

    i wonder what are those blue slots unfortunately. it looks like they are support character hopefully not

  • izanamiuchiha

    88 is a good number amazing roster

  • EnmanuelCastaneda

    Hey notice rthta in the charact select screen the fourth square at the left side looks like the kcm justloaak at naruto’s friends thy are all there but the fourth square at the left top is bright look

  • EnmanuelCastaneda

    Forget it is sakura

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001602722832 Tyler Sims

    Just saw a video from shikasclouds on YouTube that confirms that the the RTN Hinata and Sasuke, ANBU Kakashi, and swim suit Sakura are all JAPAN EXCLUSIVE I have to admit I’m kinda mad because Europe gets their 4 bonus costumes revealed tomorrow and as of right now all the US gets is Goku Naruto but if we get a Menma costume I won’t care

  • izanamiuchiha

    cool

  • izanamiuchiha

    march 5 is to far

  • llantern

    lol seriously!! like what if they put him as a support char <_< that would be disappointing

  • llantern

    Anyone else besides me excited about the 7 ninja swordsmen of the mist?? hope ameyuri is playable

  • http://sendoclanpsn.webs.com/ Hason Peart

    I don’t think Konan is going to be in this game, she died but she never was brought back to the best of my knowledge. I don’t think it’s worth bring her back if she’s going to have the same moveset, rather than adding someone new that was thought to be a support like Kurosutchi, Chojuro, Ao, or even Cee. No offense to Konan fans, but she would be a waste of a box . . .

  • Verus Ludicium

    hidan, nuff said

  • AdrianH20

    lmao that dude in the video was bad

  • http://twitter.com/Dace4Space Jesus

    Has anyone gotten their poster yet? Ive been asking Gamestop all week and they got nothing. Website now says it will be avalable at time of reserve.

  • SaskeAdri

    Hey guys if u look at the character select imageu can see that there are 88 fields, ok nothing new, but there are that seven blue fields which are the support chars like most of u said.. But what’s that in the lower left corner? If it’s not a character field than we would have 80 chars, vut didn’t CC2 say that STORM 3 will have more than 80 chars? That’s why i think that the blue fields aren’T supoort chars, they could besomething like special chars or the jinchuriki.. i hope o, because just 80 characters would be a bit lame :/ but anyhow i pre-ordered it a week ago^^

  • http://www.facebook.com/redspike0327 Сугар Дашдаваа

    Those 7 blues might be the 7 swordmen,
    But i really want to play as 7sowrdmen :(

  • http://twitter.com/devaughn92 devaughn chambers

    yes sir, I do. I Wish they would add him back in

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/الحسين-عمر/100004176451915 الحسين عمر

    yeah i understand your feelings but look at the bright side we still have alot of cool characters !

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/الحسين-عمر/100004176451915 الحسين عمر

    i think the slot in the left bottom corner is for random choosing like when you press it the com will choose your player .

  • uchihalord1994

    but we wanna see him in gameplay! :(

  • JMBfanart

    Am I the only one who thinks that unfortunately the 7swords and Jin & Kin will not be playable?

  • XGriever

    the rest of the symbols cant be really seen well enough to make that judgement but the Konoha Symbols are. PLUS there has been a new Shonen Hands on Interview today which confirms Support Only Characters, here “Another element beefed up in this new version is the fighting roster. There are now over 80+ playable characters, as well as a ton of support characters.”

  • MySusanooIsPurple

    emo side lol

  • http://twitter.com/AG_ketchup Giorgi Almonte

    wow, thats great!! Thanks :D

  • Jez

    that kabuto isn`t PTS character if someone think so that same as part 2 first sasuke that white shirt

  • http://www.facebook.com/randy.salobir Randy Salobir

    Heared that. Don’t have a 3D compatible TV but i like the select screen rendering

  • Jaye J

    Lol the guy in the video acted like he was scared to say that the ninja are in war in this part of the manga. Over 80? that’s alot of characters and 40 stages…nice.

  • Genemaru

    Here is an Answer to all of your Questions: The reason why CC2 is going big this year, is becuase Naruto Storm 3 is supposedly the last Storm Game. Also this year(2013) is the last year for Xbox 360 and PS3, so they are not making anymore Storm games for PS3 and 360. My theory on what their planning for The new Gen consoles is a Mix of Generations and Storm and fuse them to make one big game(Because new gen Xbox as blue ray which has more CD space) like DBZ: Tenkaichi 3 which has over 150 playable Characters. For how many Characters that are going to be in Storm 3 is 81 Playable and 7 support, my theory on the 7 support is Kushina, Konohamaru, Anko, Zetsu, Menma, Kurenai, and the Gedo Mazou(LOL). As for Rinnegan Tobi, Madara Uchiha, and Sage Kabuto their on the true despair cover so most likely there playable. As for the Edo Kages their porbbaly in there because they were seen in the anime and 1 of them is already sealed(Gaara’s Father). As for the 7 swordsmen being playable most of them are already sealed in the anime so most-likely their playable. As for the Kage Helpers their skills were shown in the Kage Summit Arc and the Kage Summit Arc is the second Arc in the Campaign. Also Pakura is going to be in the game because she was already sealed in the Anime. As for a Guest Character Like Asura(From Asura Wraith) is most likely not going to be in their because of the limited 81 spaces. Thats it for now……and btw i could be wrong with about 75% of this so don’t take my word for it but its a 70% chance that most of this info is true. ….

  • Brandon Turner

    the person speaking in this video seemed like he didnt know what naruto was 15min before he started he basically said um so yeah naruto wants to be the ultimate ninja so yeah theres that….

  • jayden

    “AR-KAT-SUKI” this just shows this guy really knows nothing about naruto lol

  • SaskeAdri

    but the random button is the triangle button like in other STORM series, i heard that the slot could be the one for mifune because all slots have a sign with their village on it, but the land of mifune is not a shinobi village that’s why it is such a weird symbol on it :)

  • SaskeAdri

    but the random button is the triangle button like in other STORM series, i heard that the slot could be the one for mifune because all slots have a sign with their village on it, but the land of mifune is not a shinobi village that’s why it is such a weird symbol on it :)

  • Waxgyi

    Ummm dudes the director of storm series say there will be no support only characters in his interview.

  • http://twitter.com/7Rickysosa Ricardo Sosa

    you should put itachi when he was YOUNG and the ANBU version, remember that scene when orohimaru had a flash back when he 1st saw Itachi.? that outfit and the anbu one rock ♥♥

  • http://twitter.com/7Rickysosa Ricardo Sosa

    you should put itachi when he was YOUNG and the ANBU version, remember that scene when orohimaru had a flash back when he 1st saw Itachi.? that outfit and the anbu one rock ♥♥

  • Michael

    I don’t think the bright yellow character is naruto. I think that’s sakura because I watched the video and I’m pretty sure I saw Sakura right there. Anyways I’m hoping that bijuu mode Naruto will be in the game as a separate character!

  • Millsuperman

    Nothing else to do huh?

  • OtherWorlded

    Well we know he is not a good hype man.

  • http://twitter.com/MurryEggplant MurryEggplant

    Maybe he just has trouble pronouncing the words hmm?

  • http://twitter.com/MurryEggplant MurryEggplant

    7 Swordsmen of the mist? when where they mentioned?

  • http://twitter.com/MurryEggplant MurryEggplant

    There will not be support only character’s, my guess is that those 7 slots are the 7 other Jinjuriki another reason I believe this is because Killer Bee is right by the slots so it would make for a row.

  • http://twitter.com/MurryEggplant MurryEggplant

    aaaaaah I see what you did there

  • http://twitter.com/MurryEggplant MurryEggplant

    88

  • http://twitter.com/MurryEggplant MurryEggplant

    You mean 88 character’s? haha

  • izanamiuchiha

    you right i know matsuyama said that there were not going to be support characters but my question is what are the slots blue

  • http://twitter.com/MurryEggplant MurryEggplant

    Well we know that the Jinjuriki will be in Storm 3 perhaps those 7 slots are them tooken out because they are not finished yet & or Cc2 doe snot wan’t them to be playable yet in the demo that was going on in the video.

  • http://twitter.com/MrGun_ Giovanni Villanueva

    link please? I want to watch that enterview you’re talking about O.o

  • http://www.facebook.com/ilija.tuzlak.5 Ilija Tuzlak

    I dont think the blue ones are support characters as you can see when they pick a character they didnt flip ovo to show support only charaters so maybe the are reserved for some special characters :D

  • Guest

    I think those blue slots are for the jinchuriki

  • Ray_Jeezy

    I think those blue slots are for the jinchuriki

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/الحسين-عمر/100004176451915 الحسين عمر

    yeah that seems more logical ! :)

  • Michael

    So darui,mifune,Hanzo, the 6 jinchuuriki and the seven swordsmen make up 16 new characters. If we take out the pts characters then there’s 15 new characters which might include the Edo kages, madara, rinnegan tobi, BM naruto, EMS Sasuk

  • 2ndMizukage

    will the game go up to the latest episode before the north america release or the japan release?

  • MuffinVonCupcake1

    I would just like to point out the fact that there are blue squares instead of green where all the jinchuriki are going to be. CC2, this is very clever indeed. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go whine and cry because Gaara can’t join in all the massive monster fun.

  • http://www.facebook.com/AngGabSan Angelo Gabriel Santos

    There Is Only 1 Jinchuriki In The Leaf Which Is Naruto..In The Video/Picture You Can See That There Are 2 Blue Slots..So How Does That Explain That Those Blue Slots Are’nt Supports But Jinchuriki’s???…Think For A Moment

  • Jay Young

    The blue blocks are support-only characters. They’re not Jinchuriki lol

  • Aldridge517

    88 if you count clones

  • disqus_nmDWRWrPxD

    Anyone know if the 4th kazekage is going to be in it????

  • llantern

    you dont watch the trailers ._.? well they are in the story mode. we just dont know if they are going to be playable outside of it

  • funnymitchell

    akatsuki forces ?_? even the way he’s saying it, the way he says akatsuki -_-
    just no!

  • http://twitter.com/MurryEggplant MurryEggplant

    Oh I saw the trailer but as you can see from the character roaster there are 7 mist slots. and 2 of the slots are support’s which will most likly be Chojiro and AO. Whilst the other’s will be from the previous storm Generations. Kisame,Suigetsu,Mei,Haku,Zabuza. Allthough something bother’s me becuase in another trailer you see the edo kage being summoned up by Kabuto so 2nd Mizukage has to be playable but I do not see an 8th mist symbol….

  • TCh

    I just thought, they still havnt said what number the character roster would go up to, it says over 80 and useually its like…errr for e.g 87 or more XD im just saying we never know how far it could go :) so this might not be the final character select screen :)

  • Gohan

    Blue spots are jinkurikis alright!

  • ninja687

    its possible sasukes new power level :?

  • ninja687

    all we need is jutsu clashes and this game is perfect!!!!!! first one to press the button wins the clash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just for offline to many spammer online :?

  • ninja687

    all we need now is jutsu clashes and this game is perfect!!!

  • TCh

    I honestly dont think this is the final selection screen XD seems way to small in my opinoin XD