fantasy

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is simply a fun action game with a lot of old school game play. Both new and older gamers will find this to be an addictive game.

All of the characters "turtles/splinter" are playable in story mode. The game rewards the player with new features after attaining certain items or completing different levels. It certainly keeps your interest because you want to know whats around the next corner.

Each character has unique fighting styles and the player will have to learn how to employ the turtles' weapon of choice in order to defeat the evil Shredder and the foot clan.

The graphics are cel-shaded and give the game a cartoon look which is really a break from the realistic looking games of late. This game is purely an action fighter game that will remind some gamers of the early side scrollers. The only difference... you can move in 3d. There are no platforms to fall from which is better for the younger gamers. It would have been nice being able to throw your enemies from cliffs/bridges that you encounter in the game. I guess that would be too violent. :-) ;-)

TMNT utilizes the same actors' voices from the new tv series and new cartoon footage exclusive to the game. The background music can be a little annoying at first, but there are options to adjust the sound/music effects which is pretty good. Most areas in the game are good, but one level of the game will have you wishing that you could stop the repeating sound of a female annoucers advising of a security intrusion by the turles.

Overall this is a good and fun game that is not too hard or easy to play. There is a lot of frantic button mashing involved in order to survive the onslaught of the foot clan. Two player cooperative is a feature that is added so bring a friend and get ready to kick some shell.

This is a good game, I'll give it that, actually, I quite enjoy it. It is a good number of secret characters to unlock, basically all the bosses in vs mode and splinter in story. The fightings pretty good, I particulary like luring all the bad guys on a car, jumping off, and making it explode, killing them all.
Now, the bad part, it lacks a lot of characters. Being based on the new series, it's missing quite a few characters that made the old one. First of all, shredder is the head honche, not the Krang, the brain in the gigantic body. Second, Rocksteady and Beebop, the two badguys who made half the show, don't even appear. nor do the mutants Shredder developed, can't rember their names, the wolf and the snapping turtle who appeared in the second movie. Third, wheres the gigantic eye globe that was Shredders base, aand Dr. Baxter, the fly. Last, it is at some points insanely hard, even at easy. fighting the robotic turtle with Mike or Ralph will make you curse, especially when he pulls out Donatello's staff and whips you with it from half way across the screen. Vs mode is almost impossible if you don't know that pressing circle will get you up quickly after a fall, for the computer opponents won't let you back up if you don't. Overall, it is a great game, a must for a strong turtle fan, even if the turtles have changed, and they have.

pros:
play with favorite (...) kicking ninjas
easy levels
lots of good graphics
good sound
3-D action
takes as low as 4hours to finish
cons: hard boss characters,can't play as shreeder and hun in story mode,alot of talking