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Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up

Platform: Wii (PS2)

ESRB Rating: E

Publisher: Ubisoft

Developer: Game Arts

Rating:

Review by: Dan Braun

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up is a perfect example of cashing in on a popular franchise without having to do anything creative or fun. The game unabashedly flaunts itself as a game in the same fighting vein as the Smash Bros. series, but it is clearly an inferior title, due to lame voice acting, muddled animation and just a poorly-executed fighting system.

The game offers an array of modes, ranging from arcade beat-em-up to a convoluted story. Unfortunately, it all plays relatively the same, save for the addition of some terrible cutscenes that provide an abhorrent plot and an earful of some of the crappiest dialogue performances one would ever want to sit through. (more…)

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Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Film Collection

MPAA Rating: PG

Format: 4-Disc Blu-ray (Also on DVD)

Studio: Warner Home Video

Review by: Bill Jones

To help celebrate the 25th anniversary of Kevin Eastman’s and Peter Laird’s creation of the crime-fighting team known individually as Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo, Warner Home Video released its four-film collection, three of the four appearing on Blu-ray for the first time, in one Blu-ray boxed-set titled the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Film Collection.

The boxed set comprises Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Turtles in Time (1993) and TMNT (2007). “Boxed” set in this case is a literal term, as the collection comes packaged inside a cardboard box that slides open like a pizza box, revealing four discs resembling the Turtles’ favorite kind of pie, with different toppings on each.

Also inside the box are character portraits, a sketch reproduction, comic-book mini-reproduction, title card and an awesome black beanie with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles logo. (more…)

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