Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan

Battle alongside your brothers through the sewers, subways and streets of NYC to take down Shredder and Krang’s evil organization. Unleash custom combat skills and powerful team combos to save Manhattan.

Pros:

• Funky cell shaded hand drawn graphics.
• Its a Platinum game.
• Full controller support.
• Steam achievements.
• Full leader board support with filters.
• Graphic options: Resolution, Screen mode, V-Sync, Quality, AA, Texture filters, Blur and shadow quality.
• Four controller presets.
• Single player: You can hot swap between the Turtles at anytime. You also give orders to the others or set them to orders like passive or aggressive.
• 3D open world fighter gameplay.
• You have a free roam aspect to the campaign, Missions will pop up and side optional quests will also pop.
• Opening tutorial.
• BP=Battle points that can be earned/collected in game and can be spent on items/upgrades.
• Four difficulty levels.
• Can skip cutscenes.
• Can revive each other.
• Four player online co op.
• Three continues although a game over just resets level progress.
• Rank and bonus BP is awarded at the end of the level and based off performance.
• Solid decent story.
• Collect green drops for loot, Shoot red drops for better loot.
• Easy to learn combat system. Really easy to pull off special moves including tag team moves.
• Lair: Here you can equip items and buy new stuff like health and new moves.
• You can set up your load out for each turtle.
• Brilliant cutscenes especially the ones showing off the boss you are fighting.
• Boss fights whilst huge are actually quite varied and challenging.
• You can slide on wires and barriers Jet Set Radio style to travel around faster.
• Combo counter system in effect and getting it high increases your level score.
• Decent soundtrack.

Cons:

• Locked at 30fps.
• No local co op play.
• Random crashes.
• Short game.
• Repetitive game play.
• Open world doesn’t feel right.
• Difficulty spikes especially with boss fights.
• A lot of fights just turn into button mashers.
• You can just have your AI buddies play the game for you.
• April constantly tells you about going back to the lair and its really annoying.