Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge

 Xbox One
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
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  1. Xboxygen
    Jun 22, 2022
    TMNT: Shredder's Revenge is a nostalgic experience for fans of the series. The developers have managed to modernise the gameplay while retaining the essence of the 90s’ beat 'em ups. It is a cool game to play with up to 6 players simultaneously whether online or on your couch with mates. All that is left to do is order the pizzas and enjoy the ride.

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8.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 118 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 93 out of 118
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 118
  3. Negative: 8 out of 118
  1. Supernaught
    Jun 18, 2022
    6
    Mechanically sound, with scant additions to the gameplay from previous TMNT beat 'em ups, my gripe is with the total lack of any new directionMechanically sound, with scant additions to the gameplay from previous TMNT beat 'em ups, my gripe is with the total lack of any new direction with the characters and story, and the fact that there are no filter options to take the edge off the extremely pixelated graphics. This isn't how these games looked in the arcades OR on home consoles, kids. In fact, they looked much, much better with scanlines and bilinear filtering.

    Streets of Rage IV is the bar for a new beat 'em up in this era. They completely failed to meet that expectation, and didn't even advance the gameplay to meet other arcade style beat 'em ups of the era this game represents. There's far too many beat 'em ups that do this much better, and with more style and originality, and with more gameplay options, which is a shame for anything bearing the TMNT brand on it.

    More interested in the Cowabunga Collection than this lazy 'redo' of Turtles in Time, which is a better game overall. SoR IV offers much more variety in gameplay and replayability than this lazy effort.    … Full Review »
  2. TitaniumDragon
    Jun 18, 2022
    5
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge is a call back to a bygone era of games. This is very much a sequel to TMNT: Turtles in Time,Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge is a call back to a bygone era of games. This is very much a sequel to TMNT: Turtles in Time, but it also is leaning very, very heavily on nostalgia, pretty much running every single popular character and toy from the original series in the game as a boss or someone you have to rescue. Giving you the long-awaited ability to play as Master Splinter, April O’Neill, and Casey Jones, this game has seven characters instead of four, and while it is a side-scrolling beat ’em up, there are some differences between the characters.

    Unfortunately, this game also shows why they don’t make these games anymore – this game took a lot of effort to make, and is nicely animated pixel art, but it’s only two and a half hours long. If you try and collect everything, it might take you another hour… but after that, it’s just grinding for some tedious achievements, which isn’t fun.

    The other problem is that beat ’em up gameplay remains very simplistic, and this game is no exception. The characters aren’t especially mobile, and while it reflects the design of the era, modern games are more fun to play and less awkward and stiff. This isn’t bad as far as beat ’em ups go – in fact, it’s a reasonably good example, though Turtles in Time felt like it had better variety – but the game is still very simple, and not really super fun to play. Being short is a saving grace as much as it is a drawback; if it was any longer, you’d get bored.

    Which is the biggest problem, really – it isn’t 1994 anymore. Back in the day, I remember enjoying these games, but today, they’re just too simple compared to modern game design. The game is quite easy even on the middle difficulty setting, but cranking the difficulty didn’t really make me any more enamored with it. The high difficulty older beat ’em ups were designed as quarter eaters; modern games don’t benefit from that, but it reveals just how little content there actually is.

    While it was kind of nostalgic seeing all these characters again, the voice acting wasn’t great and the only thing that made me laugh was the “twist” at the end.

    All in all, I can’t recommend this trip down memory lane unless you get it for free, like playing it on Game Pass or something. There, it is a reasonable thing, as you can taste it and see if you want to see it through, and even if you do, it won’t feel like it took a bite out of your wallet for such a short and mediocre experience.    … Full Review »
  3. Burzyk
    Jul 9, 2022
    8
    Short, but great fun for boomers like me! Available in Game Pass, 2-3 hours of gameplay for 1 character, but why not finish it as all of them?!
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