In the lead-up to the release of Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations, we've had a chance to check out quite a bit of the game's huge cast. But while it's great to let heroes fight it out amongst themselves, sometimes it's great to just cut loose as one of the bad guys, and of course longtime Naruto villains Akatsuki are showing up in the PS3/360 fighting game.

Explosive Play-Doh expert Deidara

Unkillable curse expert Hidan

Kakuzu, man of many faces and other assorted body parts

Konan, neither detective nor barbarian

Pain, who probably gets Christmas thank-you cards from Hot Topic every year

Sasori, master of what should be called the Swiss Army Puppet

Tobi--the goofy/awesome original Tobi, not what we have now

How much do you wanna bet that Tobi has a second moveset that they just haven't revealed? On another note, I'm always impressed at how good this game looks, even in these dinky screenshots. What about you? Any other characters you hope make it in? Is my Tsunade/Terumi tag-team too far-fetched to hope for?

via Siliconera