Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (XBOX, PS2, GC)...beat-em-ups and TMNT fans reunite !!

I am suprised if not shocked to see that no one yet has been posting about this awesome title. I am also very upset to see so many negative reviews about this great Konami title. This title has very similar gameplay to the original TMNT games (like TMNT 4 for the SNES, TMNT Hyper Stone Heist for the Genesis), Streets Of Rage and Final Fight.

I have always been a huge Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan since the original cartoon series aired almost 10 years ago, and loved all the games that came out on the NES, SNES and Genesis (as they were mostly in the beat-em up genre). Beat-em-ups like Final Fight and Street Of Rage, were all the rage back 10 years ago. And since then there hasn't been much titles like this released. Fans have been craving for an updated Final Fight or a Streets of Rage 4..but the new TMNT game has now finally arrived and has given us an updated beat-em-ups.

The new TMNT game is based on the NEW version of the TMNT cartoon show on FOX BOX (early morning childrens cartoon show). I watched the cartoon a couple time (mainly cause it was WAY to early for me to watch it), and I throughly enjoyed it. The turtles are much more larger and stronger..and not every colorful. This is more of a serious TMNT cartoon...more coming to age for the new generation. BTW, if you have never seen the new cartoon series on FOX you will be very suprised with the new TMNT game. As the game borrows a LOT of elements from the new cartoon..including cut scenes and pretty much the entire story line.

When you fire the game up, the intro is just like the cartoon show, and after that the menu option is pretty much standard like any other game. You have the ability to play : Story Mode (main mode), VS mode (sorta like in Tournament Fighters..one one street fighting action). Story Mode pretty much takes you through 35 levels.

The graphics are are cell shaded and are wonderful, 2D style beat-em-up for the XBOX..what else can you ask for ? :) The cut scenes are straight from the cartoon show..so its pretty much perfect. The music score is also good, and I believe mostly taken from the cartoon show.

Konami hasn't touched the TMNT classic beat-em-up gameplay, so old skool fans will be in joy. Now I can see the newer generation gamers might be very annoyed by the simplistic button mashing, but to me its a releif from all the complicated button/menu pressing on most modern games. The gameplay is simple..you move around and just kick the shell out of everyone..lol

You also have the ability to unlock "move scrools", so your button mashing brings in more complicated visually impressive combos. Also supposedly you can also unlock more special features in the game...but I haven't played it that far yet.

Overall the game rocks and I give it a solid 9/10. Plus the price is just right..brand new for $39.99 !! Enjoy and please share any thoughts of this game here !!

Pretty good impressions, I was hoping it'll live up to the classics.

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Plus the price is just right..brand new for $39.99 !!

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....I need money... :cry:

I need info on the variety of enemy types and enemy encounters. Do you ever fight more than one type of opponent at a time? Are there some insane brawl scenes? Please share more :)

A friend of mine who's a TMNT fan is getting this, which is good because I was on the fence about it anyways. One thing I don't look forward to that is a common complaint is the constant one liners. There's not that many, and they come after EVERY combo. Luckily you can turn the voices, though.

*oh wait, there's a thread about this allready.

the game is thus far better than i expected. i'm not reviewing it, but i played through the first area tonight. the battle system is definitely more robust than i expected. there are real combos, and some variety of moves, and -- totally unexpected -- a juggle system. with donatello, anyway, which is the only turtle i tried, you can pop an enemy into the air with R2 and then juggle him. fun stuff. level design is somewhat bland. throw some ninja stars and some dashing into the mix and it is shockingly realistic.

still, i don't think it's a great game. unless you're a diehard fan this seems much like a solid 'wait till it hits $20' purchase, especially with the fall glut starting.

also the PS2 version seems to be locked at 60 FPS, another shocker. =)
looking good. i was hoping to get my hands on the xbox version, but i'm not complaining after playing this one for half an hour or whatever.

Does it suppor 4 players or is it just 2?

All the reviews I've read totally pan this game. If it's true that it's only 2 players (no 4 player) in this day and age, that's just plain lazy on Konami's part. 14 years ago 2 player TMNT games were acceptable, but it's 2003 now, there's still 4 Ninja Turtles and consoles have been coming with 4 controller ports for a while now (PS1 and 2 don't count as the only reason they don't have 4 ports is so Sony can soak you for a $40 4-player adapter. Plenty of Sony games are 4 player.)

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Originally Posted by ShineAqua

Does it suppor 4 players or is it just 2?

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Nope. 2 player only.

I still stand by my impressions given in the PC demo thread(And I used a PS2 pad so control was no issue). Big time rental.

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Originally Posted by kabuki

I need info on the variety of enemy types and enemy encounters. Do you ever fight more than one type of opponent at a time? Are there some insane brawl scenes? Please share more :)

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I have only played two stages so far, and yes there are sorta a variety of enemy types. You start at the sewers destroying the original mousers, and once you reach top level. You have about 3 different style gang members..that constantly come up in the stages in looks (sorta like in Streets Of Rage and Final Fight). Also you get a different version of mousers thrown in there also. Also later on you get to see robots too.

Yes there are insance brawl scenes, when you are surround by 7-10 gang members, mousers and robots..it gets insane. Thats when you need to use the oil drums, fire hydrant and cars as stategic weapons to destoy the enemies asap. Very good stuff.

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A friend of mine who's a TMNT fan is getting this, which is good because I was on the fence about it anyways. One thing I don't look forward to that is a common complaint is the constant one liners. There's not that many, and they come after EVERY combo. Luckily you can turn the voices, though.

*oh wait, there's a thread about this allready.

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Yes you can turn off the voices. And you can also turn off the annoying pop ups on the screen everytime you attack an enemy (like "CLUNK!" "POW!!"..etc just like in the old Batman show..lol).

[QUOTE=ferricide]the level design is somewhat bland.[QUOTE]

The level design was replicated from the new TMNT cartoon show (I believe that was the style they wanted for the show). So I think Konami did all they could do :)

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All the reviews I've read totally pan this game. If it's true that it's only 2 players (no 4 player) in this day and age, that's just plain lazy on Konami's part. 14 years ago 2 player TMNT games were acceptable, but it's 2003 now, there's still 4 Ninja Turtles and consoles have been coming with 4 controller ports for a while now (PS1 and 2 don't count as the only reason they don't have 4 ports is so Sony can soak you for a $40 4-player adapter. Plenty of Sony games are 4 player.)

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I totally agree...but its not fair to give the game a poor rating just for this little "inconvenience".

What sucks is Konami didn't include the orginal arcaded TMNT classic 4 player greatness hidden on that game

So you can turn off the annoying voices? I watched the video on the last PSM DVD and my interest dropped to zero. If I heard "Slice and Dice" one more time I was going to ram a pencil in my ear.

And I guess Daitokuji answered my other question. I heard rumors the original arcade game was included and I was ready to purchase it just for that. Gues not.... :(

Yes, you can turn off the voices.
No, it doesn't make the game any better.
(Only played the demo though)

I'll probably wait and pick this up around the $20 mark.

I rented the xbox game, seems like good fun. Voices off is a MUST.

Hrmmm... gonna skip this for now. Seems my friend got it, so now I don't have to!

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Originally Posted by DJ_Mo

The gameplay is simple..you move around and just kick the shell out of everyone..lol

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You had me until you lauged at your own joke.

Yeah dude, might as well wear the t-shirt of a band you're going to go see or something. Don't be taht guy dude, don't be that guy.

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Originally Posted by Tragic

Yeah dude, might as well wear the t-shirt of a band you're going to go see or something. Don't be taht guy dude, don't be that guy.

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PCU is the greatest movie barely anyone has ever seen.

Well, I picked up the GBA game and the XB game today. Haven't played the XB game yet... but the GBA one is a major disappointment. It's just an average ho hum beat em up... nothing great like Turtles in Time or anything. Plus you can blow through it, in 20-30 minutes on Normal difficulty. And there really isn't enough to make me want to replay it. It's definitely going back tomorrow.

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Originally Posted by Roufuss

PCU is the greatest movie barely anyone has ever seen.

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I don't know... the way Comedy Central likes to air it all the time, I think alot of people have seen it.

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I don't know... the way Comedy Central likes to air it all the time, I think alot of people have seen it.

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That and Office Space.

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That and Office Space.

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No shit... they really need to get the rights to some more movies so they don't have to show the same one over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...

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No shit... they really need to get the rights to some more movies so they don't have to show the same one over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...

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Well, they did get Saving Silverman, and they've shown it about 4 or 5 times. And Knee High P.I was on like every single night for about a week.

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Well, they did get Saving Silverman, and they've shown it about 4 or 5 times. And Knee High P.I was on like every single night for about a week.

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Yeah, but since Saving Silverman sucked that doesn't help things much. :(

The console game seems fairly drawn out. I think you have to play as Different turtles to unlock different extras. For instance, I played through Stage 1 with Raph, and in area 2 I fought Casey Jones, but I didn't have the encounter when I was Donatello.

Its broken. You can dash between the hits of a combo to do INFINITES!!1

omg

Well I played for a few hours with my brother tonight. We got to stage 4 before we became completely sick of it. It's just monotonous. The streams of enemies seem to go on for ever. They made all of the areas in each stage far too long. I don't think I ever want to play it anymore.
It's really too bad. :(

I think it's a long game too, but oh well, I'm having fun with it. OMFG Holiday Fun!
Pro Tip: Be a dirty cheater and set your system clock (I used XBOX) to Oct. 31'st for Jack O Latern heads, and Dec. 25th for Santa Hats. FUN!

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Well I played for a few hours with my brother tonight. We got to stage 4 before we became completely sick of it. It's just monotonous. The streams of enemies seem to go on for ever. They made all of the areas in each stage far too long. I don't think I ever want to play it anymore.

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Yeah, that's really the problem. It's just too fucking long. I think it'd have been better with, say, half the total enemies it has now. The fairly shallow brawling mechanics aren't interesting enough to support a game of this length.

Heh, usually arcade-style games are bitched at for being too short.

kk......Since Turtles in Time was the first game I ever beat at home and at the arcade, and was completely obsessed with the original TMNT, I consider myself a pretty good judge of things turtlepower related.

Got the Xbox version, because I <3 my Box. I wouldve figured that the GC would readily have 4 players, but I knew it was only planning to be a 2 player. I think it's mostly because with the 3D setup, it's *really* hard to tell your turtles apart sometimes. For some reason, on TMNT:Turtles in Time, there was no prob, if you were playing with another person it was like, "okay, you take left side of screen, I take right, and.....gO!!!!" But with the 3D, you can't really divide it up strategically. You get in there, mash away, killkillkill! So if there were 4 players, it would get really crowded really fast. That's not to say I wouldn't like the option, but i can see why those chose 2 players instead of 4.

Aside from that....well.........it doesn't quite have the feel of the old 2D boys, but I'm liking it anyway. Good old beat em up, get someone else to play with you, and it's a lot of fun. I mean, in no way is it deep, or the storyline makes any sense whatsoever, but it's a great classic cartoony plot. OMG, SPLINTER IS GONE! WE MUST SAVE THE BROAD! THEN THE CITY! THEN THE WORLLLLLD!

It's sugary, it's obnoxious, it's simple, it's awesome jawsome fun. But owww......do your thumbs hurts after a few hours of playing. Overall, I'm liking what I'm seeing, because it's mindlessly fun.

Pretty good times I say..

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it's only worth buying if you can go through it two player. it's really just no fun by one's self. the fact that the brothers gain abilitys as you go through the story with them is neat though. it makes battles easier when your support character has more advanced move sets. whatever.

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Pretty good times I say..

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Yeah, I stopped using Don because of that. Mikey is pretty safe with the voices though.

yeah, I'm a mikey gal myself. Seems like they toned down the repeating phrases a lot since the e3 demo. SLICE AND DICE SLICE AND DICE

According to GA forum post, GC version has exclusive playable character...

Casey Jones

Apparently he's unlockable via GC-GBA link up (or type in simple password: SRLMD).

Can anyone with GC ver confirm it?

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Originally Posted by dorikyasu

According to GA forum post, GC version has exclusive playable character...

Casey Jones

Apparently he's unlockable via GC-GBA link up (or type in simple password: SRLMD).

Can anyone with GC ver confirm it?

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Yes, he's in the GC version. And yes, SRLMD unlocks him.

he's only in the GC ver? Shit.

Did they add in all that stuff with Krang, Dimention-X and all that goodness? I haven't been in the tmnt scene and I'd like to see how well this stacks to the arcade myself.

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Did they add in all that stuff with Krang, Dimention-X and all that goodness? I haven't been in the tmnt scene and I'd like to see how well this stacks to the arcade myself.

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No... this game is based on the new series which is based much more closely on the original comics. In fact the first story arc with shredder is damned near identical to the original comic story arc, especially the ending.

I'm guessing the enemy list is rather boring then.

Neat that it's focused on the older comics, in fact that first one (which they kiled shredder) was pretty badass.

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Neat that it's focused on the older comics, in fact that first one (which they kiled shredder) was pretty badass.

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Yeah, that first book is what almost the entire first season of the new series was based on... even including the same final battle with Shredder... (untill next season at least... but hell he came back in the comics as well).

Well, the XBOX has Splinter... so I wonder what that leaves for the PS2.

Heihachi.

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Nice

hardee har har XD

I notcied Baxter Stockman was at the end of the first level (not a boss tho).....he wasn't a flyman this time either. verrrry interesting...

I did this on my first time playing the game last night-

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hardee har har XD

I notcied Baxter Stockman was at the end of the first level (not a boss tho).....he wasn't a flyman this time either. verrrry interesting...

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Because, like it's been noted earlier, this game (and the cartoon) is based on the comics, not the tv show from when we were kids.

He never turns into a flyman, and he's also black, instead of white.

hahahaha INFINITE WITH LEO! kinetic card kinetic card

and yeah.....I know, I know....no flyman =( I'm not upset with it or anything, it's just different.

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hahahaha INFINITE WITH LEO! kinetic card kinetic card

and yeah.....I know, I know....no flyman =( I'm not upset with it or anything, it's just different.

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Well, different from those who never followed the comic. Imagine the surprise when they actually did turn Baxter into a flyman in the cartoon from the comic, but, the cartoon was radically different.

I think Rocksteady and Bebop were still two of the best things to come out of the cartoon, and i'd love if the new cartoon deviated from the old comic to actually put them in.

On one hand, my nostolgia agrees with you... on the the other, I think it's pretty cool that they're sticking to the comic.

Man Casey Jones is only in the gamecube version?

I am so mad right now. So mad.

I have to watch the movie to get this out of my system.




Btw, as fun as this game is, and with two people its really fun, this is by far the biggest ball Konami ever dropped.


"...is that a Jose Canseco bat?"

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Btw, as fun as this game is, and with two people its really fun, this is by far the biggest ball Konami ever dropped.[/i]

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On their foot to be exact.