Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack (Nintendo DS)

by UBI Soft

Product Features

• BEAT-EM-UP, NINJA STYLE - Relive classic Turtles fights in the streets, sewers and rooftops of New York City. Take on everyone from petty thugs to great masterminds like Dr. Baxter Stockman. The enemies and their weapons are fierce but the Turtle brothers have Master Splinter's ninja training to survive the latest onslaught. Stop the enemy with your ninja weapons, kicks and throws. Evil never tires but neither do the Turtles!
• COOPERATIVE ACTION - Never be alone, you will always have a Turtle brother fighting alongside. Each Turtle brother has different strengths and weaknesses, so choose your tag team wisely. Play with a friend via Wi-Fi or play solo with a computer-powered Turtle brother. Strategically combine your ninja moves for special attacks to inflict serious damage.
• ORIGINAL STORY - Prepare to journey into an all-new original story of the Turtles told through amazing animated comic book art and epic battles. Chase the Turtle nemesis, Shredder, beyond New York City through cyberspace and time to uncover evil plots with villains old and new.
• ALL-NEW BATTLE MODES - The battle never stops with the new variety of Battle Modes. Explore Story Mode, mastering attacks and hit combos to gain Bonus Coins that will unlock new game modes. Take on Boss Mode and relive all your favorite boss fights or try fighting against endless waves of Foot ninjas in survival mode. Test your skills in Stage Mode and race against the clock to clear levels as fast as you can.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002MBQ9RI
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.6 inches ; 3 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 10, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,864 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #19 in Video Games > Nintendo DS > Action > Fighting
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack DS

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Dissapointing, February 1, 2010

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Stephen M. Sturgeon (Indianapolis, IN United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack (Nintendo DS) (Video Game)

First I think I'll state the good points so I can get those out of the way. The cinematics between stages are a nice nostalgic throwback to the old Mirage Comics. That's it. That's the only good point. In every other way, this game is a disappointment.

I don't understand how Ubi Soft can say that this is classic arcade action. It's like they never even played any of the old arcade machines. For one thing, it's more than just enemies coming at you. There's avoiding damage from stage hazards. The first arcade game had steel balls falling down stairs, turrets that fire laser beams at the turtles, canisters that pop out of the ground and freeze the turtles in their tracks. The second arcade game had stalactites ready to fall on any turtle that walked underneath them, planks on the ground that will pop up and whack any turtle that walks on them. This game only has a bunch of enemies that come to attack you. This is a beat `em up stripped down to its bare bones.

Gameplay: All the stages are the same. Backgrounds may change, but the layout of the map is always the same. You walk forward, beat up some bad guys. Lather, rinse, repeat. While that may seem like just about any beat `em up, you can usually depend on having different enemies and different stage hazards to shake things up a bit. Here you have a small weak enemy, big strong enemy and a ranged enemy. Nothing deviates from these three types. If it were a true throwback to old arcade games, there would be enemies that jump kick you, enemies with knives, hammers, boomerangs, enemies that burn you, enemies that freeze you, etc. etc. etc. This is just the same three enemies (later skin changed into foot soldiers, but still the same enemies).

Controls: It looks like Ubi Soft tried to throw things back to only being able to attack left or right. But the hit detection is dodgy at best. Instead of simply having a jump button and an attack button, like what they had in the old arcade games Ubi says they're trying to emulate, you have a weapons button, kick button, block and jump. The button layout is not customizable and the layout they give, at least for me, is pretty awkward. The old arcade games were elegant in their simplicity. One button jumps, one button attacks. It was smooth, intuitive, and the hit detection actually worked smoothly.

Graphics: The graphics are simply horrid. I really can't say anything good about them. I'd almost rather see the hand drawn sprites of the old arcade games. Heck! I'd rather see the old Nintendo 8-bit sprites. The polygon count Ubi put into these renders must have been extremely low, because I have honestly seen better graphics on the old 16-bit systems.

Boss Fights: I had to laugh when I saw on the box where they said "Your favorite boss battles." They certainly aren't my favorite. Used to be every boss was unique. Rocksteady had a machine gun and charged at the turtles. So did Bebop, but at least his pattern was a little tougher. Baxter Stockman flew around and dropped mousers everywhere. Krang had eye beams that made a frontal assault risky and a punch that would throw you across the screen. Shredder split into two and if you beat the doppelganger before the real Shredder, more doppelgangers took its place. Here all boss battles are the same. Sure you get a golden foot soldier, Hun, Karai, Baxter and Shredder, but the fights are uninspired and you defeat them all the same way.

Final words: This game is in no way worth the ticket price. Maybe when it comes down in price and you can find it used in a bargain bin somewhere cheap, it may be worth a look. But it's certainly not worth full retail and it certainly doesn't deserve to try to put itself in the same league as the old arcade games. At best, this is a mini game that works better as a mobile download than a standalone release.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun game but not perfect., February 9, 2010

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Janice M. LaCroix (Fort Madison IA USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack (Nintendo DS) (Video Game)

As a TMNT fan, I looked forward to a old style beat-em-up game featuring the Turtles. While it has its moments, sometimes it feels like it drags on and on. On occation, there were time when you thought you were hitting the enemy and you weren't exactly in front of them and they come up and hit you. However, the comic cut scenes were cool.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Just when everyone stopped caring, TMNT got good again..., December 30, 2009

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Seen - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack (Nintendo DS) (Video Game)

Just when everyone stopped caring about the teenage mutant ninja turtles, the game finally got back-on-track after tons of awful incarnations on various systems. This one that Amazon refers to as "TMNT 2" but elsewhere and on the box is known as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack" is an homage to the original button-masher complete with a coin-op style continue system. There are more complex moves and a combo and co-op system (co-op can be CPU or human controlled), but the turtles on the DS are back to doing what they do best...basic beat 'em up action. My main complain is the occasionally awkward gameplay due to the graphics. This is essentially a 2D game rendered in 3D, but unlike "New Super Mario Bros." which did the same graphical concept masterfully, here it takes some getting used to and one only wonders how perfect this game could have been in old-school style enhanced graphics.