Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Turtles in Time Re-Shelled
Turtles in Time was, arguably, the most popular beat ‘em up of the 16 bit era. The original game was very fun for it’s time and is still a great game. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled is a complete remake of that game.
The graphics have been completely re-created in 3d. This is both good and bad, as some of the graphics fit quite well, but many of the enemies don’t resembled anything from the turtles franchise. The turtles and foot soldiers are decent, but many other enemies are way off. Baxter Stockman, for example, looks nothing like the original.
The gameplay it self is also in 3d down. Instead on only being able to attack enemies from the left and right, you can attack in all 8 directions. This provides for much better aiming when attacking soldiers on the ground and dodging hazards, but makes it very difficult to aim your aerial attacks.
The game also features local and online co-op for up to four players, which is a necessity as the classic, repetitive, beat ‘em up formula hasn’t been enhanced at all so the single player mode will get boring quite fast. The new version also allows for way more enemies on the screen at a time, they seem to die easier so it’s a good balance, but with 4 players and so many foot soldiers you can easily lose track of what’s going on.
There are a couple modes here. You’ve got the arcade mode (with multiple difficulties), a level select mode (you have to unlock levels by beating them in the arcade mode), and a survival mode to see how far you can get with just one life.
For Re-Shelled Ubisoft opted to remake the arcade version instead of the SNES one. Most gamers who played the game didn’t know it was originally an arcade game, even I who would frequent many arcades have only seen the cabinet once. The biggest difference between the two is a new level was added to the SNES version. It wasn’t like the Snow or Ninja level from Turtles 2 though; it was a pretty pivotal level in the game. It was the most innovative level and made the game flow much smoother.
In the arcade (and this) version after you complete level 3 (the sewers), a hologram of Shredder appears and says he’s sending you into a time warp. WTF. In the SNES version, after the sewers you invade the technodrome, and play a level full of traps and enemies followed by a boss fight with Shredder. The boss fight is where the innovation comes in. Shredder hops into a machine and shoots at you from off-screen. To hit him you have to throw the foot solders around you towards the screen. Then when you beat him, he gets pissed and sends you into a time warp. Not only is it more fun, it just makes more sense.
The fact that you can’t play the original arcade version in this remake really makes it strange that they wouldn’t just redo that level as well.
All in all, this game is what it was supposed to be, a standard remake of a fun, dated, beat ‘em up arcade game. It is still very fun to play with friends, and is a great time, but it doesn’t last long. Just before release the price was lowered to 800 MS points which is a good price for this (1200 was really pushing it), and I recommend checking out the demo to see if it’s for you.
really didn’t have too many entries in that era. The SNES was very fun for it’s time and is still a really game. Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled is a complete remake of that game.
The graphics have been completly re-created in 3d. This is both good and bad, as some of the graphics fit quite well, but many
of the enemies don’t resembled anything from the turtles franchise. The turtles and foot soliders are decent, but many other
enemies are way off. Baxter Stockman, for example, looks nothing like the orignal.
The gameplay it self is also in 3d down. Instead on only being able to attack enemines from the left and right, you can attack in all 8 directions. This provides for much better aiming when attacking soliders on the ground and dodging hazards, but makes it very difficult to aim your arial attacks.
The game also features local and online co-op for up to four players, which is a nessecity as the classic, repetitive , beat ‘em up formula hasn’t been enhanced at all so the single player mode will get boring quite fast. The new gameplay is interesting, but it would have been nice to switch back and forth between old and new. The new 3d gameplay probably makes that impossible, guess I’ve just been spoiled by R-Type and Monkey Island.
There are a couple modes here. You’ve got the arcade mode (with multiple difficulties), a level select mode (you have to unlock levels by beating them in the aracde mode), and a survival mode to see how far you can get with just one life.
For Re-Shelled Ubisoft opted to remake the arcade version instead of the SNES one. Most gamers who played the game didn’t know it was originally an arcade game, even I who would frequent many arcades have only seen the cabinet once. The biggest difference between the two is a new level was added to the SNES version. It wasn’t like the Snow or Ninja level from Turtles 2 though, it was a pretty pivotal level in the game. It was the most innovative level and made the game flow much smoother.
In the arcade (and this) version after you complete level 3 (the sewers), a hologram of Shredder appears and says he’s sending you into a time warp. WTF. In the SNES version, afrer the sewers you invade the technodrome, and play a level full of traps and enemies followed by a boss fight with Shredder. The boss fight is where the innovation comes in. Shredder hops into a machine and shoots at you from off-screen. To hit him you have to throw the foot soilders around you towards the screen. Then when you beat him, he gets pissed and sends you into a time warp. Not only is it more fun, it just makes more sense.
The fact that you can’t play the original arcade version in this remake really makes it strange that they wouldn’t just redo that level as well.
All in all, this game is what it was supposed to be, a standard remake of a fun, dated, beat ‘em up arcade game. It is still very fun to play with friends, and is a great time, but it doesn’t last long. Just before release the price was lowered to 800 MS points which is a good price for this (1200 was really pushing it), and I recommend checking out the demo to see if it’s for you.
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