Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus

The sequel to 2003's updated beat 'em up, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus sets the turtle quartet on another adventure from the series' second season, this time allowing the entire team to work…

54 19 October 2004

Hack and slash/Beat 'em up Racing Action Science fiction

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Konami Digital Entertainment, released 19 October 2004 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus is

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Konami Digital Entertainment and released in 2004. It was published by Konami. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game begins with a battle with the Foot Clan and Hun in Oroku Saki's skyscraper. The Foot is defeated, and Master Splinter mysteriously disappears. The Turtles chase the trail down to a building marked "T.C.R.I.", which proves to hide a bizarre secret beneath its innocuous exterior: its employees are members of a brain-like alien race, the Utroms. Whilst battling these strange new foes, the Turtles are accidentally teleported to different points across the galaxy, meeting the Fugitoid Professor Honeycutt on D'Hoonib, and end up as crossfire in the war between the Triceratons and Federation - both sides are after the Fugitoid for his technology. Along the way, they come across an…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 4 players.

Where it sits in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus is the 26th of 118 entries we hold in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. It arrived 12 months after Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The next entry was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus in 2004. Its critic score of 54 is 5 points below the series average of 59. The highest-rated entry is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown at 90.

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How it was received

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus holds a critic score of 54 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 16 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus launched on 19 October 2004, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, Counter-Strike: Source and Need for Speed: Underground 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, Counter-Strike: Source, Need for Speed: Underground 2.