I hated the single player mode in this game.

It's boring and repetitive. They did a "story of character x" where you play major battles in that person storyline. The battle objectives are always "Can't use ult jutsu/unleash" "Enemy get +30/50/70 atk/def" and you are forced to do certain battle multiple times. You have to play the Itachi vs Sasuke battle in Itachi/Sasuke and Madara storyline. I think it's also required for you to do single player because i couldn't unlock any characters after playing 50 matches in multiplayer.

There are a lot more animated scenes, so i guess that's nice.