This game can be very fun if it works, and most of the time it doesn't. The game has always been praised by its team combat, but that is definitely viewed through downright opaquely rose-tinted nostalgia goggles.
▲ The music is fantastic and seamlessly blends official and original songs
▲ The campaign follows the movies very well without taking many liberties
▲ Good characters. ...Well, it's just TMNT. 38 = Leonardo, 07 = Raphael, 40 = Donatello, 62 = Michaelangelo
▼ Horrendous PC port. The only thing that works without third party fixes is that the game runs when you click the executable.
▼ Inexcusably atrocious friendly AI. You can stand in place for 10 seconds with your entire squad around you and an enemy next to you and they will not attack the enemy. Even a "focus fire" directly targeting the enemy has a hard time. coercing your squad mates to attack the enemy. You will play a lot of the game without ammo because you will be the one killing the majority of enemies.
▼ The AI's inability to find targets to attack is exclusive to friendly AI. The enemy has no problem targeting and attacking your squad.
▼ Focus fire command has pinpoint precise input, so it's difficult to engage it accurately with fixed mouse control, and unreasonable to engage with vanilla control. Focus fire can also be cancelled with that same command so you can't even spam the button to get it to stick.
▼ Search & Destroy order does nothing of value since your squad fails to attack enemies they meet
▼ Squadmates sometimes get stuck on fortified positions and no Move On command can dislodge them. You need to run back to them and manually click the position
▼ Ludicrous bullet sponge enemies. When combined with your team's selective grasp of the chain of command, even a focused attack on one enemy, already weakened by a grenade that makes them vulnerable, can take nearly all of your ammo.
▼ Squadmates have a hard time targeting flying enemies unless placed at designated sniping spots
▼ Melee attack has buffered input
▲ The music is fantastic and seamlessly blends official and original songs
▲ The campaign follows the movies very well without taking many liberties
▲ Good characters. ...Well, it's just TMNT. 38 = Leonardo, 07 = Raphael, 40 = Donatello, 62 = Michaelangelo
▼ Horrendous PC port. The only thing that works without third party fixes is that the game runs when you click the executable.
▼ Inexcusably atrocious friendly AI. You can stand in place for 10 seconds with your entire squad around you and an enemy next to you and they will not attack the enemy. Even a "focus fire" directly targeting the enemy has a hard time. coercing your squad mates to attack the enemy. You will play a lot of the game without ammo because you will be the one killing the majority of enemies.
▼ The AI's inability to find targets to attack is exclusive to friendly AI. The enemy has no problem targeting and attacking your squad.
▼ Focus fire command has pinpoint precise input, so it's difficult to engage it accurately with fixed mouse control, and unreasonable to engage with vanilla control. Focus fire can also be cancelled with that same command so you can't even spam the button to get it to stick.
▼ Search & Destroy order does nothing of value since your squad fails to attack enemies they meet
▼ Squadmates sometimes get stuck on fortified positions and no Move On command can dislodge them. You need to run back to them and manually click the position
▼ Ludicrous bullet sponge enemies. When combined with your team's selective grasp of the chain of command, even a focused attack on one enemy, already weakened by a grenade that makes them vulnerable, can take nearly all of your ammo.
▼ Squadmates have a hard time targeting flying enemies unless placed at designated sniping spots
▼ Melee attack has buffered input