12 December 2008
Josh

New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2.5D fighting game coming to Wii

A brand new 2.5D Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) fighting game has been revealed exclusively for Nintendo Wii! Although the game has not been officially announced, it has been confirmed thanks to Nintendo Power, who broke the story.

More details have surfaced on the game as well, but they have not been confirmed at this point in time.

* It will be published by Ubisoft.
* Development on the new Turtles game officially started in January of 2008.
* The concept dates back to October of 2007.
* The game has a target release date of September 2009.
* The game will be a 2.5D Fighting title (the last Turtles fighting game was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles V: Tournament Fighters released for the SNES and Genesis back in 1993 and for the NES in 1994 and was Konami’s last NES game published outside Japan).
* The game will feature interactive stages.
* It will have a 4 player versus mode.
* In addition to a Story Mode.
* A Battle Royal Mode.
* And a Tournament Mode.
* There will also be a Practice Mode.
* There will be Unlockable Characters.
* As well as Unlockable Stages.
* The online aspect of the new Turtles game will reportedly top that of Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
* Each character is color coded with a glowing effect to make 4-player battles easy to follow.

“While this is a licensed game, it’s not tied to any movie or TV show. For this game to succeed on its own it needs to be a great game.” - Ubisoft producer.

Hopefully the new game will harken back to the good ol’ days of awesome Turtles games like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time and will be far away from the original NES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the recent TMNT games.

* Image belongs to Joe Madureira and was used on the cover of Wizards magazine #111. Check out the rest of Joe’s awesome artwork at his web-site: JoeMadFan

12 December 2008 11:41
Badboynic1010

what will the graphics look like?

12 December 2008 13:11
supadupagama

No one knows, because Ubisoft haven’t shown the game yet. We’ll update when they do.

13 December 2008 17:21
Badboynic1010

thanks

23 December 2008 17:11
Timothy2035

It would be nice if they added a “guest” turtle to the mix of characters. I am talking about Squirtle. He appears in Super Smash Bros. Brawl as a playable character. It would be awesome if the Sakurai team got Squirtle in to help the Turtle team out. Or better yet, add a pokemon trainer in who uses Squirtle, Wartotle and Blastoise much like Pokemon Trainer uses Squirtle, Ivysaur and Blastoise in SSBB. Just an idea, but hopefully Squirtle could be added in as a special character!

9 January 2009 21:57
Ryan

They should totally add Venus de milo found in the next mutation and like kari and shredder and April and casey and splinter and all those extras

25 February 2009 11:36
stevep

if that game is gonna be anything like the last turtle game then they need to keep that shit locked up because it sucked how are u gonna make a turtle game and not be able to play with all four turtles at the same time that was the dumbest move in the game history thats why it didnt sell