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a poor excuse for a tmnt video game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: November 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Alright, let me say this right off the bat.. the people who gave this game four or five stars obviously have not played it long enough or are just bias and are being kind to the turtles because they're strong fans.
Really, the only good part of this game is the graphics and the co-op play (meaning you can play with a friend at the same time, completing levels. However, you can only play 2 player co-op when there are 4 turtles.. why can't we play co-op with 4 people??). The graphics are "cell shaded," meaning that it sort of looks like the cartoons through smooth and slick characters and scenary.
Now for the bad part of the game (everything else).
The difficulty of the game is outrageous. Even on easy, it's impossible to get past the first couple of levels without yelling at your turtles and throwing the controller to the ground. The levels are split into multiple stages and if you die on any stage, you have to start all the way at the beginning. This wouldn't be such an annoyance, but with the five to twenty minte long stages, it becomes tedious and unforgiving.
The audio's nothing to brag about, either. Everytime you make your turtle do a combo or powerful attack, he shouts out some catchphrase like, "NOW I'm mad," "let's play stickball. i've got the stick. you be the ball!" or "bad guy corner pocket." After an hour or so, you can predict what your turtle will say and start lipsyncing to these godawful lines. The background loop isn't the greatest. It remains the constant, sort of quick tempo song one would expect. It doesn't get more intense during big fights or slow durng calmer moments, which doesn't take much away, but it's just one of those things that makes a good game even better. Unfortionately, this isn't a good game, and with these repetitive taunts from the turtles and quite poorly looped soundtrack, things just keep getting worse.
The storyline is pretty lame and if the ninja turtles weren't the main characters, I wouldn't have cared at all. I think the game's about the turtles going through some bosses and then getting to Shredder. There are some cutscenes that are animated and look exactly like the new television series, but when it cuts to the ingame movies, it's laughable. (ingame cutscenes are quick movies played inbetween sections of levels and are made quickly by the creators of the game, using weak graphics). In these ingame cutscenes, the turtles' mouths don't even move and to continue the dialouge, you have to press X, like the games back in the day for N64.
I'm pretty sure I've missed some other bad features of this game, but what i've said should be enough. Unfortionately, there are people that just see it's a Ninja Turtles game and automatically give it five stars, without actually playing it first and giving the game an actual chance to show its true self.
I suggest this game to be rented with a couple friends (which will be enjoyed all night, fighting through the levels, getting mad, but still having fun) but don't buy it. Any time longer than a night or afternoon playing this game will drive you mad, and there's no replay value, making your fifty bucks seem to have just washed down the drain.

Ugly

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are ugly and resemble a cartoon. The worst part though is the stupid phrases that come out of the turtles' mouth(talk about annoying). A game that little kids would enjoy, not adults.

I wanted this game to be fun...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: September 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

...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.

Fun, but boring and hard.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well, this game is ok, but Konami really made this game pretty bad. Here are a list of bad things about this game:
WAY TOO MUCH VIOLENCE,
WAY TOO MUCH TALKING, ("Slice n' dice" x 1000 = annoiance)
LEVELS ARE SHORT BUT TAKE 20-50 MINUTES TO COMPLETE,
"INVISIBLE WALL" PREVENTS RETREATING,
TOO SHORT,
REALLY HARD BOSSES AND LEVELS TO MAKE YOU SPAZ,
PRICE,
and GETS BORING AFTER AWHILE.
Still fun, but rent it first. Don't buy it for little kids unless they are prone to violence.

TMNT is it really worth $39.99 plus tax?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: November 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I wasn't really interested in this game at first... but after thinking about how good the one for super nintendo was, I got it for play station 2.
The game itself has good graphics and a good story line... it is way too repetitive... and it gets old fast. You are limited to the four characters (Leonardo, Donatelo, Michael Angelo, and Raphael.) I think its better if you can choose from a variety of characters. Anyway, in my opinion, you are better off renting this game, since you cant return them at your local wal-mart :)

Maybe a rent, never a buy!!!!!!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

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!!!!

Boring... according to today's standard

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is basically the 3D version of the old Nintendo Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game. What you do in the game is to fight, fight and fight. No mission, no other aims. Graphics are not very special either. I agree with the pervious review that this game is not so good.

Could have been much better

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Like previous reviews have stated, it seems very much like a remake of the old TMNT games for nes, but with better graphics. The most amusing part of the game was playing it on Christmas and seeing the turtles wear santa hats. I could only stomach playing the game for about 10 minutes before it got repetetive and boring. The cell shading is a nice touch but does little to enhance the overall playability of the game. If you're a huge Turtles fan, you might enjoy the game, but I'd suggest renting it before you buy it.

Alright but too short

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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.

Cow-wa-bunga! This is a pretty good game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 16 / 19
Date: November 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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.

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