Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 2013 video game published by Activision and developed by Magic Pockets, based on the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series. It was the first video game to be based on…

33 22 October 2013

Hack and slash/Beat 'em up Action Science fiction

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Magic Pockets, released 22 October 2013 on Nintendo 3DS, Wii and Xbox 360. The main story takes about 3.5 hrs to finish.

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What Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Magic Pockets and released in 2013. It was published by Activision. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Wii and Xbox 360.

The premise, in the publisher's words

One night, while the four Turtles are on the rooftops of New York, they are ambushed by Foot Soldiers. Later, they find out -- with the help of April -- the Foot Soldiers have built a Mutagen bomb to mutate the entire New York city. After the brothers have defused the bomb, the Turtles get a call from April's cell phone, which has been hijacked by Shredder. He has kidnapped April and demands that the Turtles bring him Splinter.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.

Where it sits in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is the 58th of 118 entries we hold in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. The next entry was Super Brawl 3: Good vs. Evil in 2013. Its critic score of 33 is 26 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 holds a critic score of 33 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 37 points below the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 3.5 hrs.

What it launched against

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles launched on 22 October 2013, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut and The Stanley Parable. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut, The Stanley Parable.