IGN - Brimming with potential, TMNT: Out of the Shadows has the Turtle Power vibe, but not the polish or execution needed to back it up.
Activision has pulled five games from digital storefronts, including a pair of Spider-Man games, a pair of TMNT games, and a Fast & Furious game.
Since it's not just Spider-man, it may not be a simple case of franchise rights moving to another publisher. Fast and the Furious and TMNT aren't owned by Marvel/ Disney.
Activision may simply be trying to push away from licensed franchise products
also the 2 worst ninja turtles games ever made, the recent nickelodeon games, atleast those had some of the charm of the tv series and old style tmnt games.
Spider man taking down because of the new one. These taken down because they are utter garbage.
Spider-man isn't being taken down because of the new one coming up. It's being taken down because just like TMNT and Fast & Furious, they are no longer willing to pay the digital licenses on most of their franchise products.
Metal Arcade: Jason Bakker writes:
As a TMNT fan since childhood, I was in the minority of those who enjoyed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows when it released last August for PC and Xbox 360. PS3 players have been waiting an extremely long time for the PSN version to release with no real updates – so long, in fact, that many believed the game was cancelled. Booting up my PlayStation 3 review copy after all this time felt a bit surreal, but when the awesome menu screen popped up, with the Turtles in their iconic poses from the first issue of the comic book, I was amped up to play through it again. There are definitely some problems here — including a practically unplayable online mode — but overall the game nails the TMNT vibe and backs it up with fun combat.
Push Square: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows falls frustratingly short of its full potential. As a consequence, this is a completely mediocre brawler, which fails to do anything especially interesting with its parent property. This PS3 port may be more stable than its counterparts, but that doesn’t redeem its archaic gameplay and bland visuals."
Maybe it shouldve stayed in the shadows...
Well, it looked promising.
A tmnt game similar to the batman arkham games with the dark tone of the comics is what I really want.
I'm reviewing this right now, and I will just say this: Aside from the tacked on level up system, all of the games issues are performance based. Not enough memory for wire maps causing clipping and bad hit detections. The frame rate just above unplayable (AVG 15fps), which causes timing based combat to be impossible, and the sound sync is off because DX9 is used for Direct sound(low fps causes audio lag.
I will also say this: wait for the PC version, it might fix all the major problems(or can be modded to in the .INI.
This game is really not as bad as all the reviews are making it out to be. Just played an hour of it and enjoyed it, it does lack polish but is playable so far.