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TMNT

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I'm a complete sucker for anything TMNT, especially playing as them. For all their flaws (and there are a number) the first two games based on the '03 reboot were very fun and I played through happily without pause.

I was a little put off by the Prince of Persia-ing of this game as witnessed in the demo (mostly because it felt like a cheap knock-off, instead of a re-use of the mechanics on a similarly qualified game), but forgot that and purchased the game later anyway, simply because I do so enjoy playing out fight scenes with the turtles, monotonous though they may be.

The game is mostly oriented, as many have noted, toward the casual and younger gamer. This doesn't bother me much, as this is inevitably the audience that the turtles continue to be marketed to (a bit of a shame, as casual perusal will lead you to many of us who are at least somewhat older than 10, or even older than teenagers, who are interested or still interested in the turtles).

I was pleased to find the game is pretty fun, combat being overly simplistic, but amusing in small doses. Except then we come to the acrobatic portions. Some are bothered by the perceived lack of challenge (ie, you can fall any number of times, as well as lose all health, and still finish the game), but I'm a little more bothered by what seem to be incontrovertibly technical flaws.

First of all, the controls are set in stone. This is insane on a PC game, port though it may be. Having your left hand on Z,X,C and spacebar for much of the game works well--but then you "need" to use alt for teamwork and a few other odds and ends. Underneath your hand. Maybe this works for others (smaller hands, perhaps?), but it was frustratingly unintuitive for this gamer.

Second, the camera is awful. It is set on rails, with turns scheduled for point X, so if you are looking ahead and think, "Ah, I'm going to jump across here!" and prepare yourself to do so, you may find at the last moment that the camera is turning at that ledge and in fact you are going to one side or the other on your pre-determined path. Depth perception, angles and distances are often inscrutable because of bizarre camera angles, disrupting the flow of moves like wall runs and ledge-swinging, which aim for a parkour-like sense of momentum. It's hard to maintain that momentum when the camera suddenly switches and you're now technically heading in a different direction (thus requiring a different directional key).

The controls are probably the worst element though. Beyond the fact that they cannot be changed, they are occasionally sluggish and further hamper that "parkour" element. Wallruns are simultaneously too easy and too hard, (often I found myself running along a wall I meant to jump alongside, overshooting a ledge and falling to my non-death, or jumping at a wall and scrabbling at it to fall to my non-death instead of running along it) with ledges having pre-determined points for jumping off and grabbing on that don't always make themselves readily apparent.

It's the worst kind of frustration to half-enjoy a game, to see and even have some fun in it but to have what is best described as a small child flicking you constantly for its own amusement in the controls and camera. It's not debilitating and can be circumvented (or at least plodded through), but it's incredibly annoying and makes concentration and fun difficult.

I purchased this cd-rom for my 8yr old nephew,I never actually played the game.........When He plays,he gets so excited................Your children will love it.....................

This Game actually came FREE with a ninja turtle toy we bought at Target and has been close to a hundred hours of fun for my 4 and 5 year old boys. Heres why it's awesome for kids:
No difficult combination moves. Just mash the attack buttons and your fighting like a ninja.
No puzzles or high level of thought required. No secrets to find, no reading required.
It's mostly jumping around ledges and running across walls. All very straight forward.

Did I mention the graphics are awesome?

DO spring for a USB control pad if you want your young kids to be able to play.

I did have to come in and scale a few difficult jumps and help them beat one or two difficult bosses, but otherwise they played it all the way through to the end.

I think they got about 15 minutes of fun out of the ninja turtle they bought. But they learned sharing, taking turns, perseverance, lots of finger dexterity/ hand eye coordination, and basic problem solving from the free game that came with it! Not to mention about 100 hours of play time and counting.

Since I saw the movie, I've been under a bit of turtle nostalgia, collecting things along the way. This my most recent purchase, along with a collection of figures from the movie that have shipped and that I'll keep as collector's items.

I bought the PC version of this game, and it's very simple to learn and progress through the levels. Things start to get tricky in Donatello's level, but I'm sure I'm reaching the later part of that level, expecting Michaelangelo's will be the next and final round of the practice levels. Where it goes from there should be amazing, because even the practice levels are beautiful.

It does seem to play well on a basic laptop, too. With Digital Rights Management, I wouldn't install Sims games by EA after the mess the DRM created in recent games of theirs, but this game doesn't even require a registration code, and you can even find it affordable on Amazon. Makes a great gift along with the movie for the 20-somethings out there who went through the Turtle frenzy of the 80s through 90s.

UPDATE: The game Does Include DRM, and I would be the type not to know how bad my computer's butt is getting kicked.

I especially liked that you can download a preview to the game on their game website. It was from that preview that I decided to purchase the full version, and I'm thinking that the tutorial in the download isn't even part of the full version.

The movie is a great way to return to that world of ninja turtles, but the best purchase is still the opening episodes of the original series available as a digital download on Amazon's Unbox.

Another nice return to the ninja turtles were the xbox games. There's even a ninja turtle website where you can preview the new shows.

If you're a turtle fan, you won't be disappointed by this game. Even the repetitiveness of the old Sega Genesis versions of the arcade games were fun more than once. I doubt I'll even notice repetition, to be honest. Just play it once in a while, and you'll continue to appreciate it.

It blew my mind when my dad got this for me! This is a 16 leveled freakishly awesome game!!! I Love this game!!!!!!! I don't think i've ever seen a game like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So the teen green machines hit the PC for there game based on the movie in a 3D world of ninja shell kicking.

You start off as Leonardo who has been instructed by Splinter to reach an Aztec goal of some kind... basically, all levels tell you why you are doing this level and you run through it collecting coins and fighting bad guys while trying to reach the end.

As you progress you get to play as all 4 turtles, including Raphael's alter ego, after individual stages with them, you begin to be able to use them all together for levels. With the press of a button you can change into which turtle you want to be.

Each turtle has there own signature moves. Leonardo in some stages has the ability to walk through gates (without opening them, remember that from the movie?) Raphael has the ability to climb walls with his weapons, Donatello has a long leap he can preform with his bow, and Michaelangelo can spin his nunchucks like helicopter propellers to float around for a short bit of time.

The controls are pretty simple; jump, attack with weapons, attack with kicks, a button that allows you to use a double team move, or tap it to change turtle when you reach those levels, and a block button.

I bought this game because I owned TMNT on the DS.. which I am not very found of either. I was expecting a game much different to that of the DS, but found that it is much more just a larger, better detailed version of it.

In both games, you start off at the start of the stage, and run and jump around the stages in one direction, jumping, flipping etc.. then come to areas where you fight the bad guys in one spot, defeat a few of them, and continue on.

For this bigger version, I'd have thought maybe it would not be a coarse to follow, but rather many ways to get to the end of the level, and you can backtrack and explore areas you just came from... but no, it seems it's pretty much like the DS version where you can't do anything of the sort.

This version is much better then the DS version in game play, levels and graphics... but it shares something that makes the DS version fail too... there is no replay value. Once you have finished the game, you can re do the stages to find all the coins and some that you previously could not access the first time around, but for the cheats they unlock, it's not worth it.

In the cheat menu you get to unlock big heads for the turtles. Why they have done 5 for each character, I don't know, one cheat that said "big heads on/off" would have done. There is also a cheat to change there weapons to a broom, cheese sticks, salami chucks and burger flippers, as well as a code to make the bad guys Halloween looking, which you hardly notice, and one to make the turtles wear those goofy costumes Michaelangelo wore in the movie of the turtle.... pretty much useless codes if you ask me, they might amuse a 5 year old for 5 minutes, but even they would grow bored of it quickly.

There is 16 levels plus some bonus map levels you can play, but the annoying thing is, every single level is exactly the same thing. The scenery, surroundings and obstacles may change, but every level is just running to the finish line, jumping, swinging, blah blah blah ... and thats it.

What this game really needs is a 2 player mode, and more missions to play other then just running around all the time. Why couldn't they have a skateboard stage, a car stage, i dunno... anything but 16 levels of nothing by running through a pre chosen path and doing the same thing all the time.

Many moons ago when the TMNT's first video game came out, it was a smash hit on the arcades. It was very button masher friendly, but it still was not all just a side scroller or all running and fighting; it had skateboards, flying tank things and a lot of interesting little nic-nacs to it. Also in even one of the worlds most hated yet addictive games was the TMNT on the Nintendo (NES) even that game had variety in it to keep you coming back for more. Unlike this game, where as once you beat it, you don't feel like playing it anymore, and I didn't feel like playing it anymore after about the 6th level. It seems the only things you can fight with are the bad guys when you come to them. Even in the DS version you had boxes and misc things you could attack to find things inside, in this one, I don't think there is anything at all you can do like that.

Some things that I grew really tired of fast was the limit of moves you can do. It seems like your pretty much just holding or tapping the same buttons over and over again and there is no real strategy to any of it. I also got sick of it taking a few hits to get rid of the bad guys who would fall, lay down and get back up. So I downloaded a 'trainer' to use while playing that had a cheat for it to have one hit kills... and that really should have been a cheat they put into this game themselves... but even then, with the one hit kill cheat on, it still seemed like the game was taking forever to get through.

Also, I said the fights have no real strategy; well, the rest of the game pretty much has no real strategy. It's very easy to work out how to do things, and there is not that much of a challenge to things. At first it seems challenging to get up to some higher areas when you need to or learn to bounce of walls properly, but once you work it out, it becomes simple.

In the game you hear Splinter tell you in later levels when your playing as all the turtles that you should all work as a team and rotate around because you will need all 4 of the turtles specialties to get through the next levels.... well, you don't.

If you ever played the NES version, the first game, not the arcade one, you will remember you could select all 4 turtles whenever you wanted to. But you usually stuck with Leonardo for having the second longest weapon to fight with, then Donatello when his long bow could reach things the other 3 weapons couldn't, and Michaelangelo was the Leonardo reserve if you needed it, but Raphael was pretty much useless..... well, guess whats back in this game?

I found myself mostly using Michaelangelo and his helicopter gliding ability to make the big jumps after two flips, and then when it came to climbing certain walls you need to, i'd use Raphs climbing ability. Pretty much, Leonardo and Donatello didn't even need to be in the game. You may get bored of mashing buttons in fight scenes and use there special attacks or for double team moves, but during levels, you pretty much stick to those two turtles unless your trying to test yourself to see if you can do it without relying on the specials.

There are some stages that take a fair bit of practice to get through, but personally, after doing them, i did not think they where fun, not did I want to do them again after that. The other reviewer in her short comment said her 10 year old loves the game. Yeah, maybe a kid who loves TMNT will love playing this over and over and over again... but I have a feeling he gets stuck on certain areas and can't get past it... it seemed like it was a bit hard for a ten year old to work out how to do these things, although, not impossible, but I have a feeling once he gets older he will see this game is no longer fun and it will sooner or later collect dust having been replaced by a better game.

The graphics of this game are OK, there is a few interesting things you come across now and then in the game that have not been seen in other games, but like I said, once you beat the game, and if you can be bothered collecting the rest of the coins to unlock cheats, it really has no replay value.

I already mentioned it needed more then the same thing over and over again, and a 2 player mode, but what else i thought it needed was the ability to play as more then one turtle at a time. In the previous TMNT games in recent years, they have had 4 turtles on screen at once, no matter if you where playing on your own or with 3 friends.. if they already did that in a previous game, then why not do it for this one?
"WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY"

So overall, it's pretty cheap to buy now if your curious about it, I don't think you will get the feeling of being ripped off by this game. But unless your a TMNT craving kid who loves anything thats TMNT, I don't think you will get much replay value out of this. I have gotten no more then 2 days out of it myself, and i've already un-installed it.

This game causes frustration for my son because its not easy to play and doesn't come with very good instructions on how to get the characters through certain obsticals but overall he loves it and enjoys trying over and over and over until he gets it. Its fun and the music isn't annoying which makes it fun for me as well.

My 6 yr old grandson loves this game, it is a great game for him to play.