Product Description

This four-player fighting game features the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as well as their enemies and friends, in melee battles. Choose from a wide variety of classic TMNT heroes and villains, each with unique acrobatic moves, weapons and combat skills that will come in handy during the free-for-all brawls. Not only can you immerse yourself in the world of TMNT through the story mode, you can also challenge your friends at home or online in a variety of multiplayer modes including tournament, battle royal, and more!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #553 in Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Model: 17538
• Published on: 2009-08-31
• Released on: 2009-09-22
• ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .57" h x 5.40" w x 7.55" l, .28 pounds

Features

• Fight your way across a series of interactive, destructible environments, including a sinking ship, a moving train, a burning building and a whale's back
• Experience an exciting original single-player story mode written in collaboration with TMNT co-creator Peter Laird
• Complete side missions in Story mode to earn shells you can use to buy goodies or improve your mini game scores
• Use any of four different controllers to guide the action: the GameCube Controller, Wii Classic Controller, Wii Classic Controller Pro or Wii Remote with or without Nunchuk (controllers not included)
• Take the battle online for 16-player tournament modes, including Battle Royal, Winner Stays, Loser Stays and Spectator modes

Amazon.com Product Description
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are back, and they're ready to deliver a smashing good time. In celebration of the 25th anniversary of these heroes in a half-shell, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up brings the Turtles swinging back into action for a thrilling new original adventure. Get ready to shout "Cowabunga!" as you brawl your way across a series of environments, dispatching enemies with true TMNT flair.

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Synopsis Developed by the team behind brawling classics Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Dead or Alive, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up lets you exhibit your turtle power in a variety of interactive, destructive environments, including a moving train, a whale's back and a burning building. Show off your mutant ninja reflexes as you dodge laser beams, ravenous alligators, rushing water and more. Explore an exciting original single-player Story mode written with TMNT co-creator Peter Laird in which you can unlock side missions to earn shells that let you buy goodies or improve your mini game scores. Then go online to battle in four-person brawls in a variety of tournament modes that accommodate up to 16 players. Key Game Features: Fight your way across a series of interactive, destructible environments, including a sinking ship, a moving train, a burning building and a whale's back Experience an exciting original single-player story mode written in collaboration with TMNT co-creator Peter Laird Complete side missions in Story mode to earn shells you can use to buy goodies or improve your mini game scores Use any of four different controllers to guide the action: the GameCube Controller, Wii Classic Controller, Wii Classic Controller Pro or Wii Remote with or without Nunchuk (controllers not included) Take the battle online for 16-player tournament modes, including Battle Royal, Winner Stays, Loser Stays and Spectator modes

Customer Reviews

Heroes in a halfshell, put in a half made game
This game was a great idea. It is basically a take on the popular smash bros, but it managed to miss nearly all the elements that made Smash bros good.

For one, the character movement, actions, response seems to be EXTREMELY slow, and often choppy at times.

The stage Variety 'kind-of' works, but the stages are not put together too well it seems.

The only thing this game managed to do what take a popular franchise and turn it into about 20 mins of fun. If youre looking for a game thats fun like this, Smash Bros is cheaper, and has more hours of gameplay.

I would suggest copying Power-Stone 2 OR Bleech... would make for an interesting game

Not Smash, but surprisingly fun
A lot of reviewers have compared Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash Up to Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and I think the comparison is pretty good. The gameplay feels a lot like Super Smash Bros. Brawl, even going so far as incorporating strong "A button" moves. I think if you like Smash and want more, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash Up would be a good addition.

A lot of reviewers have criticized this game for not having a lot of characters. I think there's some truth to that, but not a whole lot. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash Up does have fewer characters initially, but there are at least 10 secret characters. Some of these have been revealed online, but a few haven't (if you look at the game website, you'll see at least 6 question marks for additional secret characters). I have no idea if these secret characters are going to be exciting additions, like Leatherhead but it's too early to tell.

Also, let's remember that Super Smash Bros. Brawl had more characters, but less than half were even decent and most were lousy. Whenever I played with my friends, we tended to only use about 3 characters each. Frankly, adding a bunch of Jigglypuffs to the character roster did not really do much for me. By contrast, with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash Up, I get the sense that most of the characters are roughly equivalent and good to play with.

This game also has a few innovations not seen in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I like the stages a lot better. More room to fight, as well as more interaction between the stage and the characters. In one stage, a giant alligator will eat your character if you're not careful. Also, the characters can hang onto walls.

At the end of the day, is this game as good as Super Smash Bros. Brawl? Probably not. Smash was a unique game. However, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash Up is fun in its own right and worth trying if you want more Smash-style playing or different characters.

Unrealized Potential
Although the fighting mechanics are solid and the multiplayer modes are fun enough for some laid back action. The guts of TMNT is left under utilized. With such a rich history of characters, heroes and villains, TMNT only gives you the bare essentials. The roster is thin with little interest besides the titualr 4 turtles. You get Splinter, Shredder, April and Casey Jones. And a handful of unknowns who will seem alien to fans of the classic TV show. Left on the outs are Bebop, Rocksteady, Rat King, Baxter Stockman, Leatherhead, Krang etc. Such missed potential.
What is there is solid enough for a fun round of couch Turtle fighting. The graphics are polished and the Turtles specifically are nicely animated with great looking levels to play on. Overall it's a great concept for a game that loses it's mojo somewhere along the way. If all you need to have fun are Leo, Mike, Raph and Don then you'll get a fun package. For fans of the show, you might be wise to wait for the sequel.