So what is it like?
The Japanese voices are still there for the choosing so it plays as if you were in the Naruto anime which is a very nice thing, especially if you’re used to watching with subtitles.
If you liked the 1st one, the 2nd is very similar just with more polish and the Shippuden story arc.
It is still a good solid fighting game with lots of moves and skills to discover and master with some amazing to see moves and finishes.

I ended up getting the ps3 version over the xbox 360 version for 2 main reasons.
1) Its good to make use of the ps3 when possible  2) Performance is apparently slight more solid on the ps3 version than the xbox version based on some reports.

The improvements over the 1st one. (Good points)

• They have done away with 99% of the mini-game style missions such as “speed tree climbing”, “Dog chasing” and of course the annoying “hide and seek” missions.
• More variation in missions, such as some where you are flying and firing instead of just pure fighting.
• You don’t have to collect lots of scrolls for abilities.
• The village is smaller, so you’re not spending ages running from one bit to the other for your next mission.
• You can now explore outside the village, go visit the sand village, forrest etc.
• Added online play.  (not tried it yet as I need to get better before embarrassing myself online)

Bad points

• More an anoyance I suppose, but as with many fighting games you need to unlock characters, abilities throigh either Story or free play which as I tend to play through the story mode isn’t a problem but for someone just wantng to jump in they will initial only find a limited set of characters.

Two great games this month to play.
1st,  Assassins Creed 2, I never got around to getting the 1st Assassins creed but the 2nd one proved quite addictive.  I did worry that I might be scaring people a work with my talk of killing lots of people in renaissance Italy with hidden knives but it soon passed after showing them some of the youtube vids.
After 30-40 hours of gameplay I actually managed to get all 1000 GS for it which is a rarity for me.
360/ps3 version: good, PC version: Bad bad DRM

Mass Effect 2, I loved the 1st one so was hopeful for the 2nd and wasn’t disappointed.
The control system has been impoved and a cover system added (everything has a cover system these days), the new biotic powers are fun.   
I imported by old ME1 character for extra points and all the other lovely touches (Read about them at masseffect.wikia.com) that doing so brings.

Xbox360, PS3 and PC

The demo for Batman: Arkham Asylum is now out (PSN and XBL Marketplace) and seems enjoyable enough to think about buying when it finally comes out.   (Youtube Trailer)

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