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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
The Young Scot at 12/11/2008 07:54
Teenage Mutant Ninja Waggle
Tubatic's Avatar
Tubatic at 12/11/2008 07:57
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
Tubatic at 12/11/2008 07:58
jeez. Mirage. not Image.

Don't comment before coffee . . .
Char Aznable's Avatar
Char Aznable at 12/11/2008 08:06
Hopefully this will have a positive effect on my efforts to bring back the word "Cowabunga!"
atastysammich's Avatar
atastysammich at 12/11/2008 08:12
GOTY 2009
(But mostly by default, because it's the Wii.)
atastysammich's Avatar
atastysammich at 12/11/2008 08:18
Wii GOTY, that is. Seconding the coffee thing.
Pilliy's Avatar
Pilliy at 12/11/2008 08:25
Since when did 2.5D come into existance?
craineum's Avatar
craineum at 12/11/2008 08:26
Yeah... good week for Wii anouncements, first DQX, now this! Hope they are both good.
Mzen's Avatar
Mzen at 12/11/2008 08:39
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
theswitcher at 12/11/2008 08:49
Wow, tons of great fanboy spite in this article.
Budboy311's Avatar
Budboy311 at 12/11/2008 08:55
Wow, Sterling took a failblog from yesterday and turned it frontpage.

ALAKAZAM!!!
theswitcher's Avatar
theswitcher at 12/11/2008 09:02
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.
Jim Sterling's Avatar
Jim Sterling at 12/11/2008 09:02
WOW
welkstar's Avatar
welkstar at 12/11/2008 09:13
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
theswitcher at 12/11/2008 09:16
WOW - The entity continues to troll your poorly written news article. We are fuckpuppets, so it shouldn't bother you, right?
KMCC's Avatar
KMCC at 12/11/2008 09:32
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
catsithx at 12/11/2008 09:34
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
Solgrim at 12/11/2008 10:33
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
Aspire at 12/11/2008 10:51
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
Jim Sterling at 12/11/2008 10:52
"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
Seta Soujiro at 12/11/2008 11:03
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
Aspire at 12/11/2008 11:05
you got me. though i didn't think masturbation was much of a job, but to each his own.
Seta Soujiro's Avatar
Seta Soujiro at 12/11/2008 11:11
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
Face at 12/11/2008 11:21
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
mix at 12/11/2008 11:32
If it's ANYTHING like the NES games, preferably the arcade one I'm fucking sold.
FakeplaceStudios's Avatar
FakeplaceStudios at 12/11/2008 11:51
If this holds up to the original TMNT brawlers, it might actually qualify as a purchase for me.
XerxesTWD's Avatar
XerxesTWD at 12/11/2008 12:21
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
Agent Orange at 12/11/2008 13:15
Hope I can play as Rat King in this. Either him or Vanilla Ice as an unlockable.
The-Excel's Avatar
The-Excel at 12/11/2008 13:31
And Konami couldn't have tried something out with this before anyone else?
Duke2071's Avatar
Duke2071 at 12/11/2008 14:07
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
Jim Sterling at 12/11/2008 15:13
"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
Syn at 12/11/2008 16:44
@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
ZekeThePlumber at 12/11/2008 16:45
Jim Sterling brings all the trolls to the yard.
Syn's Avatar
Syn at 12/11/2008 16:46
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
Sharpless at 12/11/2008 17:27
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
TrailerParkJesus at 12/11/2008 20:00
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
GohanGVO at 12/12/2008 00:07
I love TMNT. I love wacky fighters over nuanced ones. Intrigued!
mikeyed's Avatar
mikeyed at 12/12/2008 00:20
This might be a very good turn for the turtles. I do hope they have a story mode though.
Cowzilla3's Avatar
Cowzilla3 at 12/12/2008 10:33
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
Zcdrike at 12/12/2008 14:50
"Well, I was excited up until the "Wii" part. "

Seriously Jim? Seriously?

*sigh*
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