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old school meets new school

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: October 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game has the touch of the old TMNT we loved back in the day. But now, its more than button mashing because the turtles have combos and whatnot. Sadly, there are no levels where you ride on skateboards and stuff, but the amount of unlockables makes up for it. If you love a good "beat-em up" game, then this one is for you. TURTLE POWER!

Return of the Turtles - TMNT - Xbox

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ok, Im a big fan of the Ninja Turtles, but im gonna try to be fair here.The graphics are awesome. Its cel shaded, which suits this game completely. The music is good, but the voices get annoying since the character repeats the same line over and over, but i got used to it.. some people wont. The controls are pretty simple to learn. after 15-30 minutes youll know what youre doing. You could get thru alot of the game being cheap and just pushing the A-button repeatedly.. but you can do some pretty cool moves using combos. The most annoying thing is that in order to save your progress you have to beat an entire area, which consists of about 5-6 shorter stages. So, say you lose on stage 5, you have to start that area over again. To save all your hard work, you need to spend about 30-45 minutes to beat all the stages in the area. Now the major thing that gets complaints is that there is only 2 player.. when most people expect 4 for this game. Well, the reason i think this is only 2 player is because of the PS2. This game was made for all 3 systems, so that hurt it slightly. Ive mentioned alot of flaws in this game.. so how bout some good things. Well, its amazingly fun if youre a fan of TMNT, and even if youre not. There is a verus mode, where you can fight a friend, and you can unlock some really cool characters in Vs mode. If you enjoy beating the shell out of endless streams of evil ninjas and thugs, youll love this game. And to tie the storyline together, they put in scenes from the new cartoon, which i found really cool. I bought this game before i played it, but i would recommend that unless youre a hardcore fan, you should rent this game first.

Father and Son(s) perspective

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Dad found the game to be too easy, highly repetitive, and thus pretty boring. Additional character scripting would have been great (after the first 30 minutes, I had to either mute the volume or go in the other room). It also makes absolutely no sense to me as to why the game is a two-player fest only, when it was absolutely a natural for up to four players.
My 5 year-old twins, on the other hand, loved it and couldn't put it down. Unfortunately there isn't much available on the X-box for young kids. Is it a violent game? Yes. Is it mild afternoon cartoon violence that the kids have seen before? Yes.

The return of the "beat 'em up" games we loved

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I remember the nintendo entertainment system when it was in its glory days, it had some of the best beat 'em up games from double dragon and the TMNT series. When they were planning to release a TMNT game for the new generation consoles I cringed, only because it has been so long since Konami released a TMNT game and since most games on XBox were simulation and first person shooter or the GTA design I wasn't sure if TMNT would hold up. When i started playing it for ps2 at a local wal mart I liked it a lot, I got it for XBox and it is amazing, it has that good ol' feel of the beat 'em up games I remember playing and loving on NES back in the good ol' days when I was 7 and 8. anyways, if you like old school games I HIGHLY consider this.

Lousy game, don't believe the "E" rating

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 22
Date: October 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a terrible game. The only gameplay is beating up people while shouting offensive insults at them.

Worse, the game bears an "E" rating, but I see nothing appropriate in this game for young kids (under 12). All the player does is beat up one person after another and listen to incessant, scripted insults. Each turtle chirps different insults too.

This is especially disappointing given the fact that the property appeals most to kids under 12.

Not bad but Needs some work...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game before buying. I usually don't do this but I was skeptical about this one. I lost interest and so didn't finish the game.

This TMNT game brought me back to the NES days, which I enjoyed throughly. This version left a little to be desired. I cannot believe they only allow two players co-op! And the first joystick (main player) cannot change players on continues. If you choose a different turtle at the main menu, you loose your progress also.

A lot of the same enemies were in the new version. The graphics were nice and vibrant but the views in some cases were horrible. They needed to step back the view just a bit, I was constantly hoping to see more of my surroundings, kind of like no periferal(sp?) vision. The turtle voice overs got old pretty quick. I always loved fighting the bosses and liked how they flashed red as their energy depleated. I did not finish the game but the bosses I fought were kind of boaring.

If you liked the NES TMNT games you will enjoy this one. But like I mentioned it lacks some touches. I would recommend renting this one first.

poorly done

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was willing to overlook many shortcomings in this game such as repetitive one-liners... but the one thing that destroys this game is that you can't save unless you finish all five or six areas in a level...which is ANNOYING. Hopefully Konami will clean this up in the next game.

Stinker

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is for young kids only. The graphics are not worthy of an xbox game, nor is the sound. It is just mindless fighting along the lines of late 80's style arcade games with comparable graphics...I thought we had escaped those types forever. In addition to all of its problems, the characters keep saying the same 2 or 3 phrases over and over and over and over....did I say and over!
The only xbox game that I've seen worse than this one would probably be sneakers and I gave it a higher rating, just because it doesn't have one liners that drive you crazy. This is a great gift for that neighbor that you don't like...his kids will drive him insane inside of 3 minutes. Don't buy this new, or used, and if someone gives it to you plan your vengence early.

(...)!GREEN TURDS!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: October 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Konami,why did you make this crap.The jackass at your work place,huh?I know your a good game company.Fire the guy who thought of making a game with the talking snot.

turtle time....again!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: October 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

after hearing all the previews, and watching all the trailers i have to say the game looks great. the graphics are cartoony and thats what makes them really cool. the camara angles i saw were great. no mess up cams like in resident evil or batman dark tommaorw. so the games great plays great but theres only one thing that would make me give this a 5 of 5 is the lack of mutiplayers. there will only be 2 people it the maxs playing at once. boogus! so let hope there will be some xbox live thing.

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