TMNT

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $1.00

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!

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine	Icemat Siberia In:Ear Headset	Sony Srsa201 Active Speaker System	Targus Corporate Standard Keyboard-Black PAKB010U

Customer Reviews:

TMNT PC GAME [Posted on 2007-05-23]
My 6 yr old grandson loves this game, it is a great game for him to play.

TMNT...ok the first time around, but no replay value [Posted on 2008-07-04]
So the teen green machines hit the PC for there game based on the movie in a 3D world of ninja shell kicking.

You start off as Leonardo who has been instructed by Splinter to reach an Aztec goal of some kind... basically, all levels tell you why you are doing this level and you run through it collecting coins and fighting bad guys while trying to reach the end.

As you progress you get to play as all 4 turtles, including Raphael's alter ego, after individual stages with them, you begin to be able to use them all together for levels. With the press of a button you can change into which turtle you want to be.

Each turtle has there own signature moves. Leonardo in some stages has the ability to walk through gates (without opening them, remember that from the movie?) Raphael has the ability to climb walls with his weapons, Donatello has a long leap he can preform with his bow, and Michaelangelo can spin his nunchucks like helicopter propellers to float around for a short bit of time.

The controls are pretty simple; jump, attack with weapons, attack with kicks, a button that allows you to use a double team move, or tap it to change turtle when you reach those levels, and a block button.

I bought this game because I owned TMNT on the DS.. which I am not very found of either. I was expecting a game much different to that of the DS, but found that it is much more just a larger, better detailed version of it.

In both games, you start off at the start of the stage, and run and jump around the stages in one direction, jumping, flipping etc.. then come to areas where you fight the bad guys in one spot, defeat a few of them, and continue on.

For this bigger version, I'd have thought maybe it would not be a coarse to follow, but rather many ways to get to the end of the level, and you can backtrack and explore areas you just came from... but no, it seems it's pretty much like the DS version where you can't do anything of the sort.

This version is much better then the DS version in game play, levels and graphics... but it shares something that makes the DS version fail too... there is no replay value. Once you have finished the game, you can re do the stages to find all the coins and some that you previously could not access the first time around, but for the cheats they unlock, it's not worth it.

In the cheat menu you get to unlock big heads for the turtles. Why they have done 5 for each character, I don't know, one cheat that said "big heads on/off" would have done. There is also a cheat to change there weapons to a broom, cheese sticks, salami chucks and burger flippers, as well as a code to make the bad guys Halloween looking, which you hardly notice, and one to make the turtles wear those goofy costumes Michaelangelo wore in the movie of the turtle.... pretty much useless codes if you ask me, they might amuse a 5 year old for 5 minutes, but even they would grow bored of it quickly.

There is 16 levels plus some bonus map levels you can play, but the annoying thing is, every single level is exactly the same thing. The scenery, surroundings and obstacles may change, but every level is just running to the finish line, jumping, swinging, blah blah blah ... and thats it.

What this game really needs is a 2 player mode, and more missions to play other then just running around all the time. Why couldn't they have a skateboard stage, a car stage, i dunno... anything but 16 levels of nothing by running through a pre chosen path and doing the same thing all the time.

Many moons ago when the TMNT's first video game came out, it was a smash hit on the arcades. It was very button masher friendly, but it still was not all just a side scroller or all running and fighting; it had skateboards, flying tank things and a lot of interesting little nic-nacs to it. Also in even one of the worlds most hated yet addictive games was the TMNT on the Nintendo (NES) even that game had variety in it to keep you coming back for more. Unlike this game, where as once you beat it, you don't feel like playing it anymore, and I didn't feel like playing it anymore after about the 6th level. It seems the only things you can fight with are the bad guys when you come to them. Even in the DS version you had boxes and misc things you could attack to find things inside, in this one, I don't think there is anything at all you can do like that.

Some things that I grew really tired of fast was the limit of moves you can do. It seems like your pretty much just holding or tapping the same buttons over and over again and there is no real strategy to any of it. I also got sick of it taking a few hits to get rid of the bad guys who would fall, lay down and get back up. So I downloaded a 'trainer' to use while playing that had a cheat for it to have one hit kills... and that really should have been a cheat they put into this game themselves... but even then, with the one hit kill cheat on, it still seemed like the game was taking forever to get through.

Also, I said the fights have no real strategy; well, the rest of the game pretty much has no real strategy. It's very easy to work out how to do things, and there is not that much of a challenge to things. At first it seems challenging to get up to some higher areas when you need to or learn to bounce of walls properly, but once you work it out, it becomes simple.

In the game you hear Splinter tell you in later levels when your playing as all the turtles that you should all work as a team and rotate around because you will need all 4 of the turtles specialties to get through the next levels.... well, you don't.

If you ever played the NES version, the first game, not the arcade one, you will remember you could select all 4 turtles whenever you wanted to. But you usually stuck with Leonardo for having the second longest weapon to fight with, then Donatello when his long bow could reach things the other 3 weapons couldn't, and Michaelangelo was the Leonardo reserve if you needed it, but Raphael was pretty much useless..... well, guess whats back in this game?

I found myself mostly using Michaelangelo and his helicopter gliding ability to make the big jumps after two flips, and then when it came to climbing certain walls you need to, i'd use Raphs climbing ability. Pretty much, Leonardo and Donatello didn't even need to be in the game. You may get bored of mashing buttons in fight scenes and use there special attacks or for double team moves, but during levels, you pretty much stick to those two turtles unless your trying to test yourself to see if you can do it without relying on the specials.

There are some stages that take a fair bit of practice to get through, but personally, after doing them, i did not think they where fun, not did I want to do them again after that. The other reviewer in her short comment said her 10 year old loves the game. Yeah, maybe a kid who loves TMNT will love playing this over and over and over again... but I have a feeling he gets stuck on certain areas and can't get past it... it seemed like it was a bit hard for a ten year old to work out how to do these things, although, not impossible, but I have a feeling once he gets older he will see this game is no longer fun and it will sooner or later collect dust having been replaced by a better game.

The graphics of this game are OK, there is a few interesting things you come across now and then in the game that have not been seen in other games, but like I said, once you beat the game, and if you can be bothered collecting the rest of the coins to unlock cheats, it really has no replay value.

I already mentioned it needed more then the same thing over and over again, and a 2 player mode, but what else i thought it needed was the ability to play as more then one turtle at a time. In the previous TMNT games in recent years, they have had 4 turtles on screen at once, no matter if you where playing on your own or with 3 friends.. if they already did that in a previous game, then why not do it for this one?
"WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY"

So overall, it's pretty cheap to buy now if your curious about it, I don't think you will get the feeling of being ripped off by this game. But unless your a TMNT craving kid who loves anything thats TMNT, I don't think you will get much replay value out of this. I have gotten no more then 2 days out of it myself, and i've already un-installed it.

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