Customer Reviews

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(19)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is simply a fun action game with a lot of old school game play. Both new and older gamers will find this to be an addictive game.

All of the characters "turtles/splinter" are playable in story mode. The game rewards the player with new features after attaining certain items or completing different levels. It certainly keeps your interest because you want to know whats around the next corner.

Each character has unique fighting styles and the player will have to learn how to employ the turtles' weapon of choice in order to defeat the evil Shredder and the foot clan.

The graphics are cel-shaded and give the game a cartoon look which is really a break from the realistic looking games of late. This game is purely an action fighter game that will remind some gamers of the early side scrollers. The only difference... you can move in 3d. There are no platforms to fall from which is better for the younger gamers. It would have been nice being able to throw your enemies from cliffs/bridges that you encounter in the game. I guess that would be too violent. :-) ;-)

TMNT utilizes the same actors' voices from the new tv series and new cartoon footage exclusive to the game. The background music can be a little annoying at first, but there are options to adjust the sound/music effects which is pretty good. Most areas in the game are good, but one level of the game will have you wishing that you could stop the repeating sound of a female annoucers advising of a security intrusion by the turles.

Overall this is a good and fun game that is not too hard or easy to play. There is a lot of frantic button mashing involved in order to survive the onslaught of the foot clan. Two player cooperative is a feature that is added so bring a friend and get ready to kick some shell.

...and it was, for a few minutes. It really was satisfying to rack up a 30-hit combo while destroying five or six foot soldiers all at once, just like the old-school TMNT arcade games. And the cel-shaded graphics look awesome.

Unfortunately, killing an endless stream of soldiers and robots (who rarely vary) gets old really fast, and the stages are pretty boring despite the colorful graphics. One stage takes place on a subway platform, and I thought trains would be roaring by every now and then, but they don't.

As others have mentioned, the sound bites really are annoying, especially Mike's (Eat feet! Eat feet! Eat feet! Eat feet! ad nauseum).

The challenge is quite uneven - the stages are incredibly easy, but you'll waste all your lives when you get to the final boss. And you won't want to start over when the stage took you 30 minutes to get through.

This is a pretty good game. It's really old-school in the beat em up sense (but its in 3d). Good cell shading, and gameplay, easy to get nasty against large groups of enemies. Upgrade turtles and unlock new attacks as you complete story mode (Including the four player strength Gembu Turtle Power move which is supposed to vary with different power ups). Vs mode didn't seem to be very good, but 2 player story mode more than makes up for it. The only real letdown, is that they seemed to have made a new Ninja Turtles cartoon, and they based this game off of that. This means annoying repetitve battle speech and wave goodbye to the classic theme music. Worth the buy if your a fan of Turtles in time, and prolly if your a new school turtle fan as well... But it never hurts to rent first.

I just got a PS2 box and got kind of dissapointed because my kid (age 4) likes to play PC games with me and the games I got for my PS2 box involved to much functions and stuff so he got a long learning curve before getting to play any game, then I found TMNT and he got it really fast, as we can play toghether the fun is always on. I don't regret buying it.

Great game!!!

What are all the people giving this game good reviews for? This game is incredibly BORING!!!! It gets so old after awhile that i could only play a few levels and i just had to turn it off in disgust. I wasted my money on it, BIG MISTAKE! If you really want to see for yourselves, rent it, DO NOT BUY IT!!!!

This is definitely a nostalgic title, but a lot of fun!

The cell-shaded game and cut scenes look wonderful and this brings me back to the days of both the TMNT and of the arcade repetitive side scrollers.

My complaints are the same as others have said. The voice samples when attacking are plain annoying, with like 5 saying for each turtle. With the optical technology of the current batch of consoles, this is unforgivable!

Also, it's a two player game only, which is lame. Was it really impossible to make it a four player game?

Despite these flaws, it's a great trip of nostalgia and worth playing. It's a good diversion for awhile, taking you away from some of the deeper games of late.

! million freakin' stars . This game rocked!. The Sounds, the graphics and the excitement. WOW!!!!!!!! When my dad bought me this i litterally had and explosion i couldn't believe i got it. The price was high but it was Worth it. Heak Worth more than that. I brought it into my private school for show and tell. I love the weapons Leanardo picks up. Sword slinging action. It ROcks, make new one. 5 stars . End of discuttion. D.C. OUT!

As a child of the 80's, I also was caught up in the big TMNT mania that was seemingly impossible to escape. I loved all the old games on NES and SNES. The newest incarnation does it tribute if you ask me. Good graphics, good gameplay, and not too violent for smaller kids. As far as the story goes, I love it even better than the old ones. People who rated this game badly because of it's lack of characters are stupid, because the new series is based more closely to the comics than the old cartoon ever hoped to be. Rocksteady, Bebop and Krang were NOT in the comics, ever (except the ones that were based off the TV show). Baxter Stockman was in the comics, but he NEVER mutated into a fly, and he wasn't the weenie he was potrayed as in the old show/games either. In any case the game is great, but the only thing that could improve it over 100 times would be if were 4 player co-op. That's about the only thing I'd change. Oh yeah and cut down on the turtles' stupid sayings too. Other than that, great game.

This game has attractive graphics and a great idea but is poorly executed and not nearly long enough. After awhile I began to feel like I was playing a button masher and you eventually run out of new and different moves. Also the characters say the same things over and over again and it gets really repetitive. Some good and some bad, rent it.

Hey guys and gals born in the mid/late 80s and children of today enjoying the new series, the turtles are back and are kicking butt again! This game is what I've been waiting for for a long time. It's fun, but I think us older kids playing this will miss the old theme music and other stuff, but yeah the turtles are still here and the giant mouse who was their master, April, etc. The graphic style of the game is cool and cartoony which is cool in my eyes and there are cool cut scenes. It's cool game overall, but by all means not the best game ever. You'll enjoy this if you played other TMNT games, like other reviewers have said.