
From then the game also covers the events from the series’ world war adapting past the episodes aired on television by the time the game is released. The plot starts off by following the ending of Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 but it first focuses on the Nine-Tailed Fox attack to Konohagakure (The Hidden Leaf) with the player first controlling the characters defending the village. The story mode is similar to that of Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 rather than the previous game Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations as it features boss battles that include quick time events and require the use of strategies to defeat the opponent.

Several arenas have become interactive, making the player automatically lose a fight if they leave a specific area. Additionally, the assistants have health bars, losing health whenever they get hit, ultimately being unusable when their health bars deplete. The assisting characters now can also aid the playable one through the use of thirteen different types of combos.

As in the previous games, the player can choose two characters to assist the player character in battle. The fighting system has been modified, with the Awakening Mode, a state that gave each character enhanced abilities when their health was low, being possible to be used at anytime during a fight, for certain characters. The game has 80 playable characters including several new, making it the largest cast in the Ultimate Ninja series. It was released by Namco Bandai Games on Main North America and Main Europe.

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3, known in Japan as Naruto Shippuden: Narutimate Storm 3 is a fighting game developed by CyberConnect2 as part of the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja video game series which is based on the successful Naruto manga by Masashi Kishimoto.
