Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack

This side-scrolling beat-em-up game is a tribute to the coin-op classics that made the Turtles video game legends. The Turtles make their return to clean up the crime-riddled streets of NYC. Shredder stands…

20 9 November 2009

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

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack is a fighting developed by Ubisoft Nagoya, released 9 November 2009 on Nintendo DS. The main story takes about 1 hrs to finish.

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What Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack is

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack is a fighting game developed by Ubisoft Nagoya and released in 2009. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game's plot seems to come sometime after TMNT: Back to the Sewer's conclusion, although there are some slight inconsistencies which prevent it from being canon to the show. Cyber Shredder has returned, this time in the distant future. He has sent a Golden Cyber Foot back to the past to test a time travel device. The Turtles then go off on an adventure to stop Cyber Shredder from reaching the present. Along the way, they topple many Purple Dragons, Foot Ninja, and some well-known TMNT villains. All of the games cut-scenes were written by Sam Regal who also voices Donatello.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack is the 46th of 118 entries we hold in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. The next entry was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ninja Tribunal in 2009. Its critic score of 20 is 39 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: Arcade Attack holds a critic score of 20 out of 100. That places it above 1% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 47 points below the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 1 hrs.

What it launched against

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack launched on 9 November 2009, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.