Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for Xbox

Pros: Cool graphics, true to the new cartoon, cut scenes, good for young and older fans.
Cons: Repetitive audio and gameplay, no four-player / four turtle action.

There are two things that are guaranteed to sell to pre-teen and teenage boys: mutants and ninjas. If you’re smart enough to combine the two like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles creators Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman, you’ll have a highly marketable ...

Pros: It's Ninja Turtles, with some simple arcade-like fun
Cons: Mostly a cheap novelty, with tons of technical frustrations

Today's cartoon industry has made a wise choice -- faced with a depressing crop of faux anime and rehashed plotlines, they've turned to the cartoons of yore for the subsistence of today's youth. The X-Men, Spider Man, Transformers -- these and more are ...

Pros: Good for kids 3-7, don't need a lot of dexterity to use the controls.
Cons: Can't save game mid-way through a level, a little repetitive, boring for an older child.

OBJECT OF GAME Splinter, the smart rat that is sort of the Ninja Turtles' mentor, gets separated from his sewer-dwelling friends because of a bad guy and the Ninja Turtles must combat gang members and robots of all sorts in the sewers, on the streets, ...

Pros: Great graphics, lots of fun, solid extras, classic beat-em up, it's the Turtles' return!
Cons: Repetitive, needs more combos, no 4 player co-op or battle mode.

After a huge and sad absence of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, they are finally back, well, in 2003. Since the new TV show launched, I hoped that they would release a game much like TMNT IV: Turtles in Time for the Super Nintendo. Once I heard the ...

Pros: Nice graphics, fun as long as you turn the sound off and play 1-player
Cons: Very annoying and repetitive. All you do is fight. No other point.

I remember the original TMNT games back on Genesis and Super Nintendo, and I was a bit excited when I heard they were releasing a new one for..oh, every danggone platform out there. Granted, I rented the one for GameCube, but they're all the same. Let ...