*sigh*
Games came out all the time, the anger of that electric seaweed, the awesomeness of the arcade game… it was all great.
In the late 2000s, they made another movie. I was 24 and I never saw it, but I at least knew the concept. Someone, these guys are still teenagers, but I guess calling it YAMNT wouldn't have worked as well. Shredder and Krang are gone and there's no Vanilla Ice Rapping in your ear. From what I gather, it wasn't a great movie, but not the worst either.
Like every overhyped movie, there was a game as well, and that game brings us to our latest review. I got TMNT for the 360, mainly because it was used and 18 dollars. Why not, right?
Well, it's a plat former beat em up of sorts. Kind of the same genre of God of War and Prince of Persia. Do you like those games? Well don't get excited. The game is boringly linear. In games like God of War, you can travel back, find secrets, all that good stuff. Here, you get a level, beat it, and then you're thrust into the next level. They look like they tried hard on the graphics, but it kind of failed. I wouldn't be impressed in the Xbox/PS2 era with these graphics. Then there's the storyline that basically kept most of the attention on Leonardo and Raphael. If you're a Mikey or Don fan, this will frustrate you.
I'm looking for good points, so how about the actual game play? No. The camera nearly ruins the game. You can't move it and it will keep itself at an awkward angle for most of the game. It'll make you mad. Storyline? Boring. Multiplayer… oh yeah, with a game with four turtles and obvious online potential they didn't do that. Online? Nope, none of that either. The platforming is obnoxious and repetitive. So how about the fighting? They're ninjas. No. You basically sit around a tap B. The only time where you'll need to do it differently is the final battle. But that battle is short and rather boring.
Well, at least it will entertain you for a while, right? No. 5-6 hours of game play tops. You can go back and play the exact same levels or play the eye burning challenging stages, but trust me, you won't want to.
There's no secrets, no equipment upgrades, no leveling anything like that. You can collect coins to buy… like video clips but there's no real challenge to it and there's really no fun in it.
Gameplay – 5.5
The camera is annoying. The platforming is boring. The fighting is too simple. There's really no fun in it. The most promising part was the last bit of platforming that seemed a little innovative, but an annoying set of pipes and some broken controls ruined the last bit of it for me.
Also, you don't die, which I don't understand, If I get beat up in a fight, why can I just come back to life. Why can I fall down the same hole 45 times and not get a penalty. There's a boring ranking system, but you simply don't care about it after the boring levels.
Graphics - 6
Very mediocre. There were some good possibilities, a real good skyline scene at the end that was boring and ruined by fog. Why even try to look good if you don't care? It's not ugly, but it's rather blah.
Sound – 5.5
The music is generic, and no epic TMNT classic music. The talking and rephrasing are annoying as crap and really not that entertaining.
Value – 5.5
Don't expect a lot. If you love achievements or love TMNT, find it cheap, but don't get it for a quality game.
Tilt – 6
At least it's a an easy 1000 achievement points on 360. Why would you buy it for any other system, I really don't know. There's nothing to keep you playing after the end. I'll probably never put it back in my 360.
Online/Multiplayer – N/A
It's an absolute sham that this game had no online or multiplayer. It's an obvious and good selling point. That's like opening a burger shop and not carrying cheese. It's like selling PS3s and carrying no games or bluray discs. It's like going to dodger stadium and they have no concession stands!
What would Wafer change?
MULTIPLAYER and ONLINE first of all. If if it wasn't great, it would have added something to this boring game. I'd try to get some sort of leveling system, make the fighting more involved, something to make the fighting…. fun.
I'd make the camera moveable or at the very least less awkward. Isn't this the same generation games like Metal Gear Solid 4 and Little Big Planet? You can't make a decent camera?
I would have also made this game have some decent tilt. I might like searching around for hidden items. I'd like to play as unlockable cahrecters. Hidden stages, anything!