Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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Kowabunga dude. If that makes any sense to you, then you would like to look at the latest offering from UbiSoft, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The game released in March 2007 and is based on a new movie in the same name. The reminiscent dreams from the TMNT gaming experience on the good old Nintendo TV game console, is so powerful to drive anyone to get their hands on this game.

The game plot is based on a post-Shredder period, that is after the defeat of the archrival Shredder, though comprehending a TMNT game with no Shredder to fight would sound a little too much. The opening video for the game disappoints a TMNT fan, as that hair rising music piece is no where to be found.

The game starts with characters fixed for stages, yet again pouring water on a Michael Angelo dream. Our character proceeds through a series of stages, starting from sewers, crime prone dark alleys of New York City and all such places familiar from the good old comics and TV shows. And there is a new addition, a futuristic suit for our turtles, which gives them some super powers too.

The action sequences are quite interesting. There are quite a lot of combo moves, though they start becoming monotonous after a couple of fights. There are stages requiring lot of wall running, double jumps and all such high adrenaline moves. These reveal that UbiSoft has based the game on their Prince of Persia skeleton. The control leaves a lot of space to improve. The camera angle is fixed that controlling the movement becomes a Herculean task at times. At times, what the character does and what we want it to do are poles apart. This kills the patience of even a hard-core gamer.

The graphics is more of comical cartoon stuff. Again, not so impressive compared to the other titles from UbiSoft (at least on PS2). Audio also fails to boost the failing aspirations of the gamer.

All in all, the game fails to hold even a hard-core Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan to the seat more than a couple of hours.

The ratings will be:
Graphics - 3/5
Audio - 2/5
Game play - 3/5
Controls - 1/5
Replayability - 1/5

Overall - 2/5.