Play as all 4 Turtles characters - Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo are represented with unique combat skills and acrobatic moves
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Relive the movie - The game follows the movie plot and includes all same key environments, characters and enemies
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Combat Evolution - Begin the game playing as a single character, then rejoin the family to fight as a team with the option of collaborative, combat moves
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Exciting Action Experiences - Acrobatic jumping from rooftops, scaling tall buildings, diving down sewer pipes, pole-vaulting moves, and flying with nun-chuck weapons
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Special Video Game Bonuses - Some enemies from the original comic book series will feature as guest stars in the video game!
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12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Platforming ChallengeMar 29, 2007
By EnchantedGal There have been some mixed reviews about this TMNT for wii game on other sites. Mostly because people didn't know what to expect from this game, especially pre-release of the movie it is based on. This game is set up a bit like the older arcade games. You run through a level and climb walls, jump over obstacles and get 20 enemies thrown at you randomly. Throughout this there is some narrative between the turtles going on in the background as you relive their recent adventure. At the end of each level you unlock one of the nine mini-games created just for the wii version and also see a short animation furthering the plot.
For each level beaten you get graded at the end for time, enemies beaten and medallions collected. It's extremely easy to beat the enemies, but this game puts more focus on challenging platforms. You will have to jump a lot and some areas are very tricky to navigate. Since the camera angle is always fixed, you will sometimes have a hard time judging distance. So jumping can be trial and error. I died a lot, which ruined my "time" grade at the end of levels, but it saves at frequent (every minute or so) checkpoints and you just go back to your last point each time you die.
Why this game is awesome: Turtles have never moved like this in a game before! I may be bias, since I'm an 80's child and I grew up on all things TMNT. Odds are that if you are such a fan you will go wild for how awesome they move in this game. Jump, double jumps, jumping side to side up walls, climbing etc. There are lots of ledges on walls to climb and hanging bars you swing from. Climbing walls horizontally when you're Donatello is a specialty. Each turtle also can do sweet things like Don's staff can launch him a really long ways jump. Raph has his weapons (sai) that you can pierce walls with to climb up with. I was also pleased with the artwork and graphics for the turtles. It's not up to ps3/xbox standards for graphics, but in comparison to the older arcade and other nintendo games it's beautiful. Although I agree with nintendo that the graphics alone do not make a game fun, the sense of depth adds a good deal to this game.
Wii controls work well with this game. To swing your weapon you shake the wiimote, to kick you shake the nunchuck, A is jump, Z is your special attack. When you are beating a lot of bad guys you get a special bonus attack with the B trigger that is amazing. In like a wipe out the entire room with a psychadelic blast way. There are some tag team moves with your brother turtles towards the end.
There is potential for a decent amount of gaming time, it took me 45 min to beat just 11% of the game (4 levels and mini games.) But this largely depends on how good you are at navigating the course and not jumping to your death. Since there isn't a need to go back to previous levels or collect new items, I can't say there will be much replay value. It's also one player only and the levels are kind of long to pass on and off for multi players. The bad guys do not present much of a challenge, it's likely you won't die much while facing any of them throughout the game. However, if you are the type of player that just wants to play alone for an hour or so a night this game is fun. With frequent save points and levels you can feel free to play it in short spurts.
14 of 16 found the following review helpful:
Turtles movin' on up! A very vertical vigilante vid! The Turtles really feel like NINJAS in this one!Mar 21, 2007
By Kevin J. Loria I'm a long time fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in all their incarnations, so I've been ready for this new Movie tie-in. The last batch of TMNT games was extra-cool because they present the chance to play all 4 brothers along with 4 players. That is my ONLY complaint. You can play all the Turtles (and the Nightwatcher, Raphael's armored vigilante crime-fightin' persona)but unlike Wii's Marvel fare, have only the 1 player option.
Still this is the best-looking Turtle game I've seen (any platform). In addition to the graphics, the game-play is good, loads of great fighting moves that work well with the unique controlers (you use the remote and the chuck for this one). Typical of the Wii system, you might find that you're getting a workout, while going for all the fighting moves. There are turtle-tag-team co-op moves too, like the Brother Throw & Super family attacks. Also look for the return of old favorites like Mike's Nunchuck Helicopter.If you take a beating and start to pass-out, wiggling the remote might clear your groggy mutant head. Another way to restore health is meditation.
As this is based on the Prince of Persia engine, theres lots of wall-scaling, climbing impossibly up...this is the most vertical Turtles ever! THESE GUYS HAVE NEVER MOVED SO MUCH LIKE NINJAS...EVER!
The story...all four Turtles have gone their separate ways: Leonardo completes his training in South America, Raphael fights in NYC as the Nightwatcher,Don and Mikey run COWABUNGA CARL, a party service for kids. Tension builds as the family reunite to find answers to monster appearances and a billionaire linked to the FOOT.
Enemies you will fight are the Militia, Purple Dragons, the Foot( naturally), a group of tech junkies who own the sewers known as the Black Gators and other Movie-tie-in suprises.
Completing levels in the game unlocks special challenges and the Wii version of TMNT has nine exclusive MINI-GAMES in which you go for the best times.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Hooray for absence of "game over"Apr 11, 2008
By James J. Pyke
"Pajkossy"
I have read negative reviews of this game that complain about the fact that your player-character never actually dies or gets "game overed."
I have to say that complaint is completely baffling to me.
This game is kind of a 3-D platformer in that there's rather a lot of jumping around that one has to do. Some of the jumping is from side to side instead of the standard up-and-over variety. There's also a fair amount of fighting you'll have to do.
The Wii remote control scheme is generally pretty great, but sometimes gets a little frustrating and leaves me feeling like my player-character did something I did not intend for him to do.
The challenge maps and mini games are especially fun, and if you want a really great arm workout try the Donatello minis.
My 7 year old so is quite good at this, and he and I love playing it together - trading off when one or the other of us gets stuck and can't make it to the next checkpoint.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
TMNTMar 11, 2008
By Jennifer Osgood This is a fun game good graphics for the wii....easy to learn how to play even for a non-gamer
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Great game, but needs more of the originalMay 14, 2007
By J. Guerrero
"Electric Residential Service"
This game is great and has great fighting styles, but a lot of it is just skill in passing through obstacles. You don't fight with enemies all the time, as in previous titles.
It's very entertaining, though, and if this title is to be played, it is worthwhile on the Wii, because of its interactivity with the remote controls, as you need the remote and the nunchuck.
I gave it a 4 out of 5, because it fell a little short from the original series of all-the-time-fighting action.
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