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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.

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.

Good game, worth the buy, especially if a turtles IV fan

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: October 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a pretty good game. It's really old-school in the beat em up sense (but its in 3d). Good cell shading, and gameplay, easy to get nasty against large groups of enemies. Upgrade turtles and unlock new attacks as you complete story mode (Including the four player strength Gembu Turtle Power move which is supposed to vary with different power ups). Vs mode didn't seem to be very good, but 2 player story mode more than makes up for it. The only real letdown, is that they seemed to have made a new Ninja Turtles cartoon, and they based this game off of that. This means annoying repetitve battle speech and wave goodbye to the classic theme music. Worth the buy if your a fan of Turtles in time, and prolly if your a new school turtle fan as well... But it never hurts to rent first.

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.

Looks Great, Lots of Fun, But Repetitive

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: October 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is definitely a nostalgic title, but a lot of fun!

The cell-shaded game and cut scenes look wonderful and this brings me back to the days of both the TMNT and of the arcade repetitive side scrollers.

My complaints are the same as others have said. The voice samples when attacking are plain annoying, with like 5 saying for each turtle. With the optical technology of the current batch of consoles, this is unforgivable!

Also, it's a two player game only, which is lame. Was it really impossible to make it a four player game?

Despite these flaws, it's a great trip of nostalgia and worth playing. It's a good diversion for awhile, taking you away from some of the deeper games of late.

Rock Shell Dude!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: November 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is utterly auesome!!!
except for when you gat to level "Tengu",for me its impossible to beat thos mystic dudes!!!And they don't follow each episode in a row!!!! they just skip episodes!!!the eaisiest turtle to be is leonardo and the hardest is probably raphael.
let me at least tell you one cheat:
unlock master splinter story mode,thats right,not v.s.,story!!!!!!--password:MSRLS
i really like the cel-shading too,they make it look more like a cartoon.
anyway,you should watch the t.v. shows first then buy the game,i watched the first 13 or 14 episodes then i bought the game.
sincerly,
kenny

Turtle Powah!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 14
Date: September 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

You know it's gunna be bad ass, this and castlevania are going to be better than anything that has come out on ps2 in a long time, and it's 40 bucks so that's definatly a plus. If you've played turtles II arcade or turtles in time you know how good a game these guys can have. If it can be close to as good on here it'll be one of those games fondly dusted off and played 15 years from now.

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!!!!

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.

This is the game if you have small kids

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I just got a PS2 box and got kind of dissapointed because my kid (age 4) likes to play PC games with me and the games I got for my PS2 box involved to much functions and stuff so he got a long learning curve before getting to play any game, then I found TMNT and he got it really fast, as we can play toghether the fun is always on. I don't regret buying it.

Great game!!!

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