Product Description

The Ninja Turtles are no longer confined to sewer system and are now both above and below ground in the world. Strange events have been occurring in New York City fast-moving shadows, strange star alignments, and creatures attacking the city. Is the wealthy and mysterious industrialist Max Winters involved? The city needs the Turtles now more that ever, but they are in their most trying time as heroes and as a family. While Leonardo was away on a special training mission his brothers Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael became lost and directionless. With the city and family at stake, it's up to Leonardo with Zen Master Splinter to restore unity and ninja discipline to the Turtles.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3223 in Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Published on: 2007-03
• Released on: 2007-03-20
• ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .53" h x 5.75" w x 7.75" l, .36 pounds

Features

• Play as all 4 Turtles characters - Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo are represented with unique combat skills and acrobatic moves
• Relive the movie - The game follows the movie plot and includes all same key environments, characters and enemies
• 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
• Exciting Action Experiences - Acrobatic jumping from rooftops, scaling tall buildings, diving down sewer pipes, pole-vaulting moves, and flying with nun-chuck weapons
• Special Video Game Bonuses - Some enemies from the original comic book series will feature as guest stars in the video game!

Customer Reviews

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Platforming Challenge
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.

Turtles movin' on up! A very vertical vigilante vid! The Turtles really feel like NINJAS in this one!
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.

It is what I thought it would be
Back in the heyday of Turtles, I was a huge fan. From plenty of action figures to a blanket to clothes to even this weird mirror, I was kind of a freak when it came down to the franchise. After nearly a decade, the show came back with a surprisingly decent tv show and more prominently, a feature-length film done in CG (which was actually quite good: don't listen to a word from "critics). Like many successful movies, we have tie-ins such as McDonalds' toys and licensed games. While this is probably a more fuller Turtle game, it just doesn't have the likability of Turtles in Time or the original Arcade game.

Story: In order to become a better leader, Leonardo has been training in Central America. Back in New York, Raphael has taken up the guise of the crime-fighting Nightwatcher; Donatello has become a tech support while Michaelangelo does birthday parties as "Cowabunga Carl". Meanwhile, a businessman named Max Winters has been collecting monsters and using hired guns to unleash a portal. Don't really want to spoil the rest.

Graphics: It's kind of...blocky. I mean, it still looks like a next-gen title but it doesn't have a vibrancy and polished sheen as other games such as Super Monkey Ball or Super Paper Mario. But it does its job well with minimal textures, easy-to-spot pathways and character animation. The cutscenes are also nice as well.

Sound/Music: The music was fine but it was kind of loud but thankfully there's an option to bring it down a tad. Voice-acting is of course cartoonish and not up to snuff like features might have but they're fine. Splinter's voice is not as weird as the feature film while Leonardo's voice is hard to shake, especially if you've played Final Fantasy X.

Gameplay: You control the 4 Turtles with differing abilities. Raphael can climb special walls, Michaelangelo can helicopter over large distances while Donatello can use his bo as a pole vault. Their fighting style is largely the same though. Control stick moves them, Z or C acts as a block/evasive roll and A is jump. Fighting is basically 4 things: shake Wii-mote to do weapon slash while tilting it for a few seconds then tilting it back to normal will unleash a better weapon move. Same idea for the nunchuk except its a kick. This is basically a hack n' slash so you're not going to really get completely combo-heavy like Kratos in God of War. Sometimes the controls are bothersome and slow with my least favorite being the wall-run Prince of Persia style (most of the time, they just fall) and the dodge is not as immediately responsive as it should've been.

As for the difficulty, this is a rental difficulty: just easy to blow through it in 2 days. If you fall down a chasm, you restart a bit back while if your health goes down, just wave the Wii-mote and you'll revive. I don't think a game over is even possible here, unless you just quit playing for a bit. But like a lot of tie-ins, this is pretty standard so those looking for a huge challenge ought to look elsewhere. Just brush up on your speed (clearing the area as fast as you can) and collecting easily-seen coins. This will net you mini-games and special bonuses.

Unless you're a diehard fan or have kids, this game is fun for awhile but it's not really worth a purchase.