Nintendo Wii Reviews

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Smash Up

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

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Smash Up, baby!
OK, for a third party title I’m going to go out on a limb and give this a 5. I think this is as close to perfect as we’ve seen in a game that wasn’t specifically built by Nintendo from eth ground up to be a Wii title. The controls are superb, the levels are interesting, the action fun and the graphics are top notch for any Wii title, regardless of first party or third. This is some seriously good stuff. Beats the pants off of the last bunch of Turtles releases on any platform.

3 Stars 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

3 Stars Like the old times
I played this video game with may little brother, and it’s like de old times, when we played the TMNT for nintendo. It is a good video game, a little more complicate than the others, but you will have a good time.

3 Stars 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.

4 Stars an overlooked game
This game is fun fighting game for the wii. Good online play, tournament mode, and tag mode.

The only real disapointment for any TMNT fan was lack of more characters from the history of comics,tv shows, and movies replaced with three rabbids. The only differnce is the wall attacks, swing pole attacks, and life bars. So if you overlook the limited characters it is a good game.

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