Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (PC, PSN, XBLA)

[EvilMog]

Tried the demo. I had to turn it off.

[Will]

Some damning impressions.

I can attest to some of that.

Lots of bugs and the controls are way more sluggish than I care for. There are two things that bother me with this game aside from the bugs, one is that when you're doing a combo it's buffering the minute you press the first button so you're waiting for whole animations to finish. The second is that camera is pretty terrible, a lot of the time it's way too close to the character model and you have to constantly shift it around to see what you're hitting, on top of that there's no lock on.

The levels have a few visual indicators as to where to go but there were quite a few times I kept going in circles because the level design is so badly laid when it comes to leading you to the next area. All that being said the voice acting, save for Michelangelo's voice actor who sounds like he's 10 years old, is fine. The graphics are actually quite good and ultra colorful so them being described as "terrible" is not true in the slightest and the art in the cut scenes are good even if a bit jarring when it transitions from detailed polygons to flat simple 2D art. TMNT: OOTS has a fairly deep combo system which has a lot to offer in terms of attacking in a variety of fun ways and another positive going for the game is that it has a lot of content and modes so replay value certainly isn't going to be an issue.

I should know better than to buy anything that hasn't been reviewed by the time it's released. I'll try the actual game once my daughter gets home from school.

I did the same exact thing and I RARELY buy games before seeing a few reviews first. I guess I just got caught up in the hype and nostalgia for a good TMNT game but it's been a somewhat disappointing experience so far but the 2D arcade mode holds promise and I'm hoping that it gets a few good patches to iron out the problems.

[Yoshi]

Yeah, my relatively early impressions are in the 5-6/10 range. The character models are actually very well done technically. The backgrounds don't match them though, which is where I think the graphical complaints come from. I've also had the problem you described where I had no idea where to go next. Ledges will flash gold to let you know, but only if you're close enough to them. I think a patch or two could put the game in a solid 7-8/10 range, but I'm concerned this may be a dump and run project and certainly doesn't instill confidence in the weird 360/3DS/Wii game coming soon.

[Joust Williams]

There are no options for AA, V-sync

I find that disabling V-Sync in a game and enabling it in the control panel works much better. Some games do weird stuff when their Sync is ON

[Yoshi]

I've actually been letting the GeForce Experience auto-optimize recently and have had good results for the games that it supports.

[Chux]

I should probably do that. I keep saying, nothanks.jpg when it wants to install, but if it seems to work, well no reason not to use it.

[Korly]

think a patch or two could put the game in a solid 7-8/10 range.

#TeamDelusional

[Will]

#TeamDelusional

I actually agree with him on this, a few good patches would go a long way.

All the technical issues really mar the experience but like Yoshi said I fear this may be one of those hit and runs with the "go fuck yourself we're in the middle of counting money" type of support but I really hope that isn't the case.

[Korly]

Ok, then let me ask you this: Is Turtles in Time (or whatever your previous favorite TMNT game is) a 7 or 8 out of 10?

If so, are you saying that with "patches" that this game will be just as good? And if one of those old TMNT games is a 7 or 8 out of 10, where do games like Deus Ex/Half Life/System Shock/MGS3 or stuff like that rank? Or like, Mega Man 2 or Super Mario Brothers or Dracula X for that matter?

[Will]

Ok, then let me ask you this: Is Turtles in Time (or whatever your previous favorite TMNT game is) a 7 or 8 out of 10?

If so, are you saying that with "patches" that this game will be just as good? And if one of those old TMNT games is a 7 or 8 out of 10, where do games like Deus Ex/Half Life/System Shock/MGS3 or stuff like that rank? Or like, Mega Man 2 or Super Mario Brothers or Dracula X for that matter?

I really liked the arcade game which was great and I also enjoyed Turtles in Time but I didn't have an SNES until way later so my main TMNT game for a while was Hyperstone Heist which I played over and over and loved.

I'd give Hyperstone Heist a 8.5/10, this game doesn't quite measure up to that so I'd give it a 6.5/10 but with all the stuff fixed it would easily be a 7 since it also has a decent story mode and a fun arcade mode. Never played System Shock and played very little Half-Life but MGS3/Deus Ex (Human Revolution) hover in the high 9's.