Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Nintendo Wii

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1. SAW

   October 29, 2014 at 4:50 pm

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   “It Has It’s Moments…But Only For Hardcore TMNT Fans.”, October 23, 2013

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   This review is from: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Nintendo Wii (Video Game)

   OK, first off as a TMNT fan this game was worth the 30 bucks. Had it been a 50-60 dollar title then I might be a little peeved. I’m going to try to point out that although this game is far from flawless it does have some good things going on as well. The graphics and sound are pretty “meat and potatoes” stuff here, nothing real fancy and could have easily been done on the PS2 to be honest. However, the Turtles’ models represent their animated Nickelodeon counterparts very well and the animations when they run and jump are perfect to how they do it in the show. The dialogue as expected gets a little repetitious after about the first 15 minutes and even I got sick of hearing Mikey yell “I love breaking stuff!!” every single time I cracked open a inanimate object but other times I found myself chuckling at some of the old school references when the turtles would banter with other in between gameplay. The volume clipping issue during certain cut scenes is a bit unbearable and is really the worst gripe I have about this game. This is a simple issue that should have been resolved before the games release, budget title or not. The actual gameplay is surprisingly smooth as there are no freezing or bug like issues that seem to have plagued the Online TMNT game “Out Of The Shadows” released a few months ago. The turtles move fluidly and its pretty much just flailing away at one button and beating up various baddies. When an enemy gets beaten down bad enough you have the option to throw him into the screen which is a nice throwback to the Turtles In Time game of the early 90’s. All 4 turtles are there the whole time (even with 1 player) and you can change on the fly which is kind of a cool feature taken from Konami’s 2005 effort “TMNT 3: Mutant Nightmare.” The story mode campaign is nearly identical to “Mutant Nightmare” where you see a map of 15 or so levels and you can go back and play them again if you miss an object or want to increase your score to upgrade the Turtles. The more points and secret ooze canisters you collect the more attacks you can buy for each one of the turtles thus making their one button combos a little more interesting. If you can get past its overall simplicity its actually a fun game especially when the multiplayer factor is added in. At the end of the day its not the best TMNT game but its by far not the worst.

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