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Naruto Uzumaki is a fictional, child ninja and a popular one: a manga, two television series, four movies and three dozen video games have been made in his name. Ubisoft, on the authority of a 2006 licensing agreement, tasked its Montreal office to further the patrimony with a release for the Xbox 360, Naruto: Rise of a Ninja. Promoted as "a game exclusively developed from the ground up," in which "for the first time ever, gamers will experience Naruto from the series' beginning," Rise of a Ninja fairly manages as both an independent and lineal title, sustained by Ubisoft's craftsmanship and the story of Naruto itself.
