Cat whiskers and metal-braced headdresses aside, the E3 trailer for Naruto: Rise of a Ninja had quite a lot to offer. It encapsulated the whole game: an open-world RPG that will follow Naruto and his early beginnings leading up to ninja-dom.

That's something that a lot of fans have been clamoring for, mind you - something "new." Not to say that all Naruto games are fighting games, but man, if I had a dollar for every single one that is a fighting game, I'd have [calculates...] just enough money to buy a whole Naruto outfit to go cosplay with in the upcoming Comic-Con.

Today's trailer features a montage of gameplay clips. The good thing here is that it threads two important aspects of the game together: 1) the fighting, and 2) the free-roaming. Nice.