Don't worry guys NUC2 is a giant leap over the first game in pretty much every way. They reworked the mission system to make it way less annoying and you can switch characters so you aren't just Naruto all the time either.

Offical video
http://www.hokagesroom.com/link.html?i=vHIEWC

Relese date: September 4th 2007

Offical web site
http://www.hokagesroom.com/link.html?i=5zoWSC

Features:
New orginal adventure/storyline
Multiplayer co--op and versus battles
Multipul modes of play (story, mission and survival)

Character list
Naruto Uzumaki
Sasuke Uchiha
Sakura Haruno
Kakashi Hatake
Rock Lee
Neji Hyuga
Might Guy
Shikamaru Nara
Choji Akimichi
Gaara
Kankuro
Itachi Uchiha
Kisame Hoshigaki

Info
Naruto: Uzumaki Chronicles 2 aka Naruto: Konoha Spirits (in japan) is an action RPG where the player travels across a map and completes missions to gain experience points in order to gain new abilities or increase their character's stats.

UC2 surpasses it's predecessor by actually letting you play as characters besides Naruto... now of only their where more Kunoichi to play as *sigh*

Well you can always go last gen and get the .hack Gu games since the last volume Redemption is coming out in september. The story on those is the defenition of epic.

If not their's always Blue Dragon which looks like it's going to rock.

If they only drop the core then colour me disapointed.

The elite is a bit too pricy for the extra features I don't really need but I'd love to buy a premumin one so I can play
Blue Dragon!