Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Review

4.6

Format PlayStation 2

Developer Konami

Publisher Konami

Genre Action

turtles may well be the biggest kids' toy of the moment, but if we'd bumped uglies with Nurse CVG and produced offspring, we wouldn't let them near this game. Not because it promotes a diet that consists entirely of pizza and artificially-everythinged fizzy pop; but because it's muck.

Get this: there are four turtle heroes right? But the maximum number of players is two. The game takes its lead from ancient arcade scrolling beat 'em ups, but there's no arcade-style on-screen timer to hurry you along and consequently no tension to the action. You don't even have to worry about feeding the game more cash when you die, as you get continues galore.

Not that you'll die very often. Your ninja heroes are super-powerful, cutting through wave after wave of enemies with a painfully repetitive battle cry that will have you stuffing your ears full of beans just to make it stop.

Ultimately there's little joy to the gameplay, unless you like hammering one of the two attack buttons and simply aiming your hero at the next batch of fodder for your angry reptilian idiot. This piece of merchandise is best avoided unless you're a hopeless Ninja Turtles fan - and even then, it should be approached with a huge dollop of caution.

CVG Staff