A Genre that has always intrigued me was the Pocket Fighter. From the days of the first Gameboy with it’s Pocket Fighter: Fist of the North Star. It was fun and portable something that at the time Street Fighter wasn’t. The Genre of Pocket Fighters have been slowly evolving to being an almost complete port of what you would come to expect of a Full Fledge Fighter. This time around it’s Naruto, while Naruto is certainly not new to the DS the Shippuden Series is. Packaged as a Pocket Fighter how does the Shippuden Series Translate.

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Back at Comic-Con, Viz Media and Naruto were holding an open tournament using this game. None of the players have played it before since it hasn’t come out yet.  Winner received a brand new Wii system.  I stayed for the whole competition and enjoyed almost every battle.  There were somethings that have yet to be polished though.  Mainly the in-game sounds .

Now, at the tournament, no one used the Wiimote and Nunchuck combo.  All players opted for the classic Wii controller.  I’m not sure why fighting game developers would want to program for the Wiimote and Nunchuck combo.  It doesn’t add much to the game and just seems like a waste of effort, in my opinion.  If it’s for the sense that you are actually doing that super move, then I know of only young kids would try and do it.  But yet, I bet they would get confused anyways.

NARUTO Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3 comes out for the Nintendo Wii system November 16, 2009 for $39.99.