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Ninja Turtles brawler coming to the Wii photo

Well, I was excited up until the "Wii" part.

Nevertheless, Ubisoft is bringing a brand new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game to Nintendo's white waggle box, a 2.5D fighter with a variety of modes and an online function which is claimed to beat out Super Smash Bros. Brawl's. 

Here are the details that have been shed so far:

-published by Ubisoft
-official development started Jan. 2008
-concept started Oct. 2007
-to be released in Sept. 2009
-2.5D Fighter
-Interactive Stages
-4 player versus
-Story Mode
-Battle Royal
-Tournament
-Winner Stays
-Loser Stays
-Practice
-Unlockable Characters
-Unlockable Stages
-Online aspects said to be better than Brawl implementation
-Each character is color coded with glowing effect to make 4-player battles easy to follow

In addition, the game is said to tie in with no specific part of the Turtles license, meaning it's not entirely based on any of the movies or cartoon shows. One of the game's producers sees this as an extra challenge, claiming that "for this game to succeed on its own it needs to be a great game.”

New Turtles game on the Wii. There you go.


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The Young Scot's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 07:54
The Young Scot
Teenage Mutant Ninja Waggle
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 07:57
Tubatic
At this point, if any new Ninja Turtle game isn't based on the first 38 comics in the original black and white Image comic series, it isn't worth doing.

Mutt IP turtles worries me more than if they decided to do an Archie comic based game.

Waa.
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 07:58
Tubatic
jeez. Mirage. not Image.

Don't comment before coffee . . .
Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 08:06
Char Aznable
Hopefully this will have a positive effect on my efforts to bring back the word "Cowabunga!"
atastysammich's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 08:12
atastysammich
GOTY 2009
(But mostly by default, because it's the Wii.)
atastysammich's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 08:18
atastysammich
Wii GOTY, that is. Seconding the coffee thing.
Pilliy's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 08:25
Pilliy
Since when did 2.5D come into existance?
craineum's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 08:26
craineum
Yeah... good week for Wii anouncements, first DQX, now this! Hope they are both good.
Mzen's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 08:39
Mzen
You forgot to add something very important:
http://gonintendo.com/?p=65857

It seems that former Team Ninja and Smash Bros. Brawl developers are making this game, which should make it pretty good in my opinion! (Unless they pull out another casual-fest like Brawl... That game doesn't hold a candle to Melee honestly, but since Team Ninja people are in there, maybe things will work out just fine!)
theswitcher's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 08:49
theswitcher
Wow, tons of great fanboy spite in this article.
Budboy311's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 08:55
Budboy311
Wow, Sterling took a failblog from yesterday and turned it frontpage.

ALAKAZAM!!!
theswitcher's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 09:02
theswitcher
Seriously, if you hate the Wii for your own stupid reasons, don't post articles about it. Let someone who has some form of journalist integrity handle it.
welkstar's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 09:13
welkstar
A fighter? No no no. They should've done an update of the TMNT brawler. With online co-op, that would be great!
theswitcher's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 09:16
theswitcher
WOW - The entity continues to troll your poorly written news article. We are fuckpuppets, so it shouldn't bother you, right?
KMCC's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 09:32
KMCC
Classic controller support and it could be something to watch.

Granted I haven't played it in forever, but I remember Tournament Fighters being a lot of fun. Not that it's relevant, really.
catsithx's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 09:34
catsithx
Well I guess it might be a good game. Well I'll just wait for it to come out before I judge it.
Solgrim's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 10:33
Solgrim
If this is a great game I will cry. I will even post a vid of it.

Wii not having HD still sucks though.
Aspire's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 10:51
Aspire
You did it, you got negative about something in the first sentence.

Post the ENTIRE story, so we can decided if your opinions are worth it.

Just because you post 50 stories a day doesnt mean you're credible, it means you dont have a life or you only publish a little bit of the story.
Jim Sterling's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 10:52
Jim Sterling
"Just because you post 50 stories a day doesnt mean you're credible, it means you dont have a life"

Haha, okay. It's not like it's my full time job or anything.

Clown.
Seta Soujiro's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 11:03
Seta Soujiro
not excited...
wouldn't be even if it was for PS6. let's face it, the last good TMNT game was the one for the SNES waaaay back.
Aspire's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 11:05
Aspire
you got me. though i didn't think masturbation was much of a job, but to each his own.
Seta Soujiro's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 11:11
Seta Soujiro
hmmmm reading about the ex-team ninja and SSBB guys working in this games kinda guarantees the game is not going to suck that much.

then again, it's Ubisoft...ubisoft just throws shitty games on the wii.
Face's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 11:21
Face
Thanks Mzen! That sounds much better than this article made it seem. Ubisoft + wii usually = fail, but as long as there is a decent dev behind it, thats all that matters. NMH is a good example.
mix's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 11:32
mix
If it's ANYTHING like the NES games, preferably the arcade one I'm fucking sold.
FakeplaceStudios's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 11:51
FakeplaceStudios
If this holds up to the original TMNT brawlers, it might actually qualify as a purchase for me.
XerxesTWD's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 12:21
XerxesTWD
What the heck? You complain about there not being games that you like on the Wii, and then a game you would admittedly like is coming to the Wii... so you don't like it? Have time to elaborate on that, Jim?
Agent Orange's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 13:15
Agent Orange
Hope I can play as Rat King in this. Either him or Vanilla Ice as an unlockable.
The-Excel's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 13:31
The-Excel
And Konami couldn't have tried something out with this before anyone else?
Duke2071's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 14:07
Duke2071
Ninja Turtles could be a good game if they base it off of the old school ninja turtles and not the revamped new one.
Jim Sterling's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 15:13
Jim Sterling
"you got me. though i didn't think masturbation was much of a job, but to each his own."

That doesn't make one lick of contextual sense.

Also, get an avatar. You no-avatar noobs are all one person to me.
Syn's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 16:44
Syn
@Pilliy: a quick glance a Wikipedia says that Outrun (1986) was the first game to have 2.5D graphics. But you'll probably hear that the original Doom was a pioneer in 2.5D.

also, @Jim: I'm noticing you attract many of the "Avy-less" lot in your stories. They kind of just show up to take a pot-shot and then fade into the anonymity.
ZekeThePlumber's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 16:45
ZekeThePlumber
Jim Sterling brings all the trolls to the yard.
Syn's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 16:46
Syn
CORRECTION TO MYSELF:

From Wiki:
"The first computer games that used pseudo-3D were primarily arcade games. Atari's 1976 racing game Night Driver was the first driving game to use a pseudo-3D first person perspective."
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 17:27
Sharpless
Oh, good grief... A fighter? Really? This has been done already and it sucked. Give me a goddamn TMNT beat-em-up! NAO!
TrailerParkJesus's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/11/2008 20:00
TrailerParkJesus
Can you use the nunchuk as a nunchuck?

Stories of people accidentally hitting themselves in the eye and breaking HDTVs is the only way to get something positive out of this.
GohanGVO's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2008 00:07
GohanGVO
I love TMNT. I love wacky fighters over nuanced ones. Intrigued!
mikeyed's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2008 00:20
mikeyed
This might be a very good turn for the turtles. I do hope they have a story mode though.
Cowzilla3's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2008 10:33
Cowzilla3
Hell if they just make it a game where you use the wii remote like an NES controller I'll be happy. Even if I have to shake it every once in a hwile. Worked pretty well for WarioLand.
Zcdrike's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2008 14:50
Zcdrike
"Well, I was excited up until the "Wii" part. "

Seriously Jim? Seriously?

*sigh*
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