Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare

TMNT3 puts more of a focus on teamwork, character development and control than any other console Turtles game to date. Gamers can play as their favorite Turtle alone or with up to three friends, earning…

43 1 November 2005

Hack and slash/Beat 'em up Action Science fiction

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Konami, released 1 November 2005 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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What Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare is

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Konami and released in 2005. It was published by Konami Digital Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In Episode 1, the turtles begin saving an old person in New York City from sadistic Triceratons. After destroying three carriers deploying the Triceraton army, the turtles go underground to reach the Central Park to rescue their friends Casey and April. While in the park, Leo Raph Mikey and Don defend against the Triceratons and Professor Honeycutt pegged as the Fugitoid saved from TMNT 2 Battle Nexus assists the turtles in finding where Casey Jones and April O'Neil are held captive. Breaking into the Triceraton's base, Zaranmon, commander in chief of the Triceraton's mobilizes a robot in effort of stopping the Turtles and Traximus. Zaranmon's attempt is a failure and Traximus destroys a…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 1 players. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.

Where it sits in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare is the 29th of 118 entries we hold in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. It arrived 8 months after TMNT: Mutant Melee. The next entry was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare in 2005. Its critic score of 43 is 16 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 3: Mutant Nightmare holds a critic score of 43 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 24 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare launched on 1 November 2005, within three weeks of Shadow of the Colossus, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty 2 and Sid Meier's Civilization IV. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Shadow of the Colossus, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV.