Gamespot Review
 

http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/t...les/index.html

6.5 : Fair

OH COME ON! http://cube.ign.com/articles/455/455939p1.html

5.3? Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeez! And actually people voted it to be 8.3! GO TMNT FANS!

After reading that review I don't know what to think of this game. I did already buy it so I'm gonna play it but I hear nothing but bad things about it. I'm hoping that I will like it though.

They all complain about how repeatitive the game is... Maybe they should play the old TMNT games. I think that all fans of the old games will like it.

Funny how they give TMNT poor scores for it's old-school repetative gameplay, but they give Mario Advance 4 high scores when it is plagued with the same redundance (hop and Bop). I speak as a lover of old school games, but it is unfair how they can complain about repetative in one game because it doesn't have the Mario name on it, and give a similarly old-school and repetative game high scores because it is expected.

Don't pay attention to what those elitist gamer a**holes say about old-school gaming styles. IMO, this type of game will milk today's generation back to the way games SHOULD be played, not this "real-time have a bloated inventory press six million buttons to switch to another weapon and have to memorize so many button combos just to kill someone effectively with chat macro combinations deciding how the game progresses yada yada yada" bullcrap out today...you know, "games" like Knights of the Old Repubic and Syphon Filter, no offense to any fans of those games on here, that is :wink:

I liked Knights, but you are correct anyway. And besides, I know I will enjoy TMNT more (been playing the hell outta the demo)

What bugs me in the IGN's review, is that the reviewer says She liked TMNT: The Arcade game, but then complains how this game is just button smasher and too simple... Old game had one attack button, as opposed to the new one, and it's too simple. right.

Hopefully somone who has played the original game in last 10 years reviews PS2 or PC versions.

EDit: Just notcied PS2 review is exactly same... I don't remember when I would have been this disapointed to IGN's reviews.

The TMNT can't be bad game, because her has done "Konami" !!!

Judging by the Demo, is excatly what I was waiting for.

and it's not Cosmos. those who have played the demo loved it. IT is a fun old-school game with added moves, and some great voice work. Look at the player review, not the anal (we judge games unfairly) reviewers. One thing they don't fully mention is how good it feels to plow through the thugs. It a very entertaining, old school game. And like Karpo said, the old game was a button masher, where the same move was used through the entire game. This actually adds Dynasty-Warrior like combos.

Would be nice if someone expanded on the TMNT mythos and added some missions to it, like sneaking around and having Donny decode door locks and things like that, but for what it is, and what genre is represents, the game delivers in spades.

i told you that shouldnt have went with the beat em up style. they should have done rpg or stealth.

I think they did it just right.

ah, thats stupid. How can you love the old games and not like the new one because of its button smashing, repetative gameplay?? The only difference I see is better graphics. That doesnt make sense.

I'll probably get the game eventually anyway, reviews be damned.

I have it preordered.. should get it tomarow..

I sure hope it doesn't suck near as much as I've heard.

I just now bought the game. I'm gonna play it now.

I didn't expect anything more.

Jesus Christ....
 

I just HAD to embed this one, because... it's just completely sacrilegious to compare the two! And absolutely hilarious to boot. Mario Advance 4, or SMB3 as one would prefer to entitle it, is one of the GREATEST platformers ever made! By using the same logic as illustrated by yourself, one would think that every single platformer in the history of the universe is as cloyed with repetition as the TMNT-fanfare.. and that's so inaccurate it isn't funny. First of all, you fail to mention that the Mario-games were some of the most innovative platformers when they hit the market. And second... yikes, that "hop and bop"-comment, I really don't know what to say. The TMNT-zealotry sure shines through, though.

The first TMNT for the NES was a GREAT, GREAT game. The sequel - THE ARCADE GAME - though, holds the distinction of being one of the most repetitive games I have EVER played. Sure, it tagged along nicely back in 1990; but I was freakin' 7 years old then. We slashed and hacked away... but growing up... Some 1-2 years ago, I actually ventured to finish the game in the company of... well.. any number of people really, and LO AND BEHOLD, it was still almost as stale and sleep-inducing as the 'going solo'-mode. But yet, I played and PLAY it due to the TMNT-brand attached to it. It's the sole reason. TMNT IV was and is a definite improvement, but.. you know, surely there must be something more to the TMNT-license ?

I mean, COME ON. Some of you are so engulfed by the light that blinds you, that you fail to see the FAIR criticism that is being expressed in the majority of the reviews that we've seen so far. No block/defence function (which indeed is criminal in this case), the ridiculous catch-phrases, the overt sameness, unbalanced difficulty, levels being too long.. and so on. In some reviews, the reviewer of choice even underlines the fact the he or she REALLY tried to like 'it', but just couldn't, due to all the flaws.

And YES, Prowl, it would be nice if Konami could see it in their hearts to expand on the true and tried formula of TMNT-mechanics.. then maybe, just MAYBE, I wouldn't have to be such a bitch about this ;)

So.. err.. in conclusion: Super Mario Advance 4 gets a favourable grade BECAUSE it's a great game (bearing no resemblance.. AT ALL, to the TMNT-franchise)... TMNT gets an average grade because... oh my, here it comes... it's an average game!!

But you know what.. I'll still play it. Yes siree, it still does good to the TMNT-spirit within to be able to steer the Turtles in the year of 2003, though I don't expect it to tide me over to the next installment (if applicable). But I seriously hope that Konami will deviate from the present sameness, and try something new. That'd make me happy, at least.

PS. I can't comment on the GBA-version, since I'm not familiar with it. DS.

The reviews aren't fair, peroid. A block button would be nice, but it wasn't in the old games either. The game does not create anything new, but it's fun as hell. fact is, that if you really like the old games, you will like the new game.

They sau they like the old games, but new is not fun. It's the same thing if you say you like Super MArio Bros 3, But Super Mario world is not fun. Like I said, the game does not offer anything that haven't been seen before, but it's a good and fun game. As the review is now, it's far from fair critcism.