Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-shelled [Online Game Code]

by UBI Soft

Product Details

• Online Game Code: Currently, this item is available only to customers located in the United States and who have a U.S. billing address.
• Note: Gifting is available after purchase via e-mail.
• ASIN: B002L3RUIO
• Release Date: August 5, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31,126 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #16 in Video Games > Xbox 360 > Trivia

Product Description

(Online Interactions Not Rated by the ESRB) The Turtles are back! Relive, or discover for the first time, the flashy visual style and humor of one of the most acclaimed arcade games of all time. Starring Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo - everyone’s favorite pizza-loving, wise-cracking, reptilian crime fighters. The game has been recreated in beautiful full 3D HD graphics and enhanced animations but still has all of the favorite moments and gameplay from the original. Use pizza power-ups and huge body slams to make your way through history in an attempt to restore peace to the Big Apple. This game requires the Xbox 360 hard drive for storage. There are no refunds for this item. For more information, see www.xbox.com/live/accounts.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not terrible so much as disappointing, October 31, 2009

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J. D. Williams (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-shelled [Online Game Code] (Software Download)

Turtles in Time Re-shelled has a little good, some that is mediocre, and a lot left wanting.
My friends and I all have fond memories of mashing foot soldiers to a pulp across many hours of our misspent youths, so when this game was released I was very excited. We fired it up last night and played through it in one sitting, four player.
First: this is a port of the arcade version, not the SNES version. To the point, the Technodrome stage is absent, The bosses Rat King, Rocksteady & Bebop, and Slash are missing, and there is no versus mode. We didn't realize this at first and were quite crestfallen.

The GOOD-
-4 player co-op is the main selling point. It was what we enjoyed the most - even when the game was bad, at least it was bad as a group experience. Friends make everything better.
-The new graphics have a certain charm. It's cool that each turtle has a different voice.
-It's only $10. I owned the SNES version, which you'll recall sold new for about fifty.

The BAD-
-The engine. The old version was satisfying to play for a lot of reasons, and those elements are now gone. If the brunt of your game is going to be spent mashing buttons, you'd better make sure those buttons are rewarding to mash. In this new game there is no 'dodge', no 'block', and most importantly no hit-stun. The slight plus of being able to keep hitting a downed enemy is outweighed a hundredfold when you get knocked down and THEY can keep hitting YOU. I will be clear here: you will be helpless to respond. One boss - Cement Man (replaced by Slash in the SNES port) will actually park on top of you after you go down, and keep damaging you until you die. The badguys also do not have 'I am being hit by something' lag - they will hit you right out of a combo you are performing on them, and the bosses are even worse.
-The details. You can't skip the animations in between levels, the music is forgettable (as opposed to the genuine charm of the original), and the controls are laggy making it difficult to avoid attacks even when you see them coming.

I played through this game again by myself today, and it was an exercise in frustration. Partly because of the lackluster reimagining, but mostly because the game I remember was so good. If you read the credits you will notice that the test team for this title consisted of a mere twelve people. As I former tester myself I know that you need more people involved. It betrays a motivation by the makers for money first, and fun second - if at all.
The first level of this game is really pretty fun - but you can play it for free in the demo. Save yourself ten dollars and the disappointment of seeing your childhood shoddily repackaged.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Horrid, August 30, 2009

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Chris Pelletier (Daly City, CA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-shelled [Online Game Code] (Software Download)

I'm a huge turtles fan so hearing a remake of arguably the best turtles game of all time was being made I got excited. They used the arcade version as a base which means the game lacks the Technodrome level, Rat King, Slash, Bebop, and Rocksteady. All these are minor complaints and understandable as those were all SNES console bonuses.

That aside I'm going to break down the good and bad about the game. Let's do the good first.

Good
* They used the voice actors from the 2K3 series so it's good.
* The cut scenes and character menu designs are awesome.
* Most of the boss character designs are good.
* Online multiplayer for up to four people.

The bad, and there's alot of it.
* The music is horrible. I don't normally care about music in games but I went in expecting something that at least remotely resembled the original games. Instead we got boring generic tracks that lack any defining sound.
* The graphics are terrible. The fact they brought it into a 3-D realm is fine but it's unappealing. The game looks like a Playstation game. I wasn't expecting anything amazing as it's an XBL game but why they didn't do it in the style of say "Castle Crashers" is beyond me. To me that was more fitting for a brawler like this.
* They removed flips and jump kicks.
* The 8 way directional attacking works when it wants to.
* There's a delay on the controls so you will get hit unfairly quite a bit.
* Some of the bosses are annoying. The Mud Monster especially.
* All the charm of the original is just gone and what you're left with is a hallow shell.

I'm not picky when it comes to games. You give me something playable that I can either beat up things to kill stuff in and I'm happy. Even I couldn't enjoy this as a casual gamer or a huge turtles fan. Being a fan is one reason I don't enjoy this game. However even if it wasn't turtles and I had no expectations on that front I couldn't enjoy this game. It's just not fun.

I don't recommend this game to people who want a good side scroller or want to re-live the glory days of Turtles In Time. If you can't help but play it I highly recommend you try a demo first.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Spit in the Face for Original Fans of Turtles in Time, September 22, 2009

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Brax0r "The Good" (Hell, Michigan) - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-shelled [Online Game Code] (Software Download)

This is NOT the original Turtles in Time - in any way, shape or form.

Shockingly, I went in knowing that this was going to be an updated Turtles in Time with open arms... and I was completely disappointed.

There is little charm to the updated graphics, music and sound effects, and because of the pseudo 3-D graphics, the game plays a little differently, and the controls are super-loose / wonky.

If you imagine that this is a stand-alone TMNT title, you'll still be disappointed.

Please just add the original Turtles in Time to the XBLA, Ubi-Soft.