I love this game, but I have to give it a thumbs down. Abandoned by both the developer and publisher; is effectively falsely advertising that it has "online" capabilities. It doesn't, and likely never will.

Great for the single player, but do not buy, please. Don't give Activision money for a game they left broken.

This game is really fun. It's a beat em up game that you USED to be able to play. I have no idea what happened to the multiplayer, but developers forgot about the game. So now i have to defeat Mansers anda three-headed robot dog inspired by the cerberus BY MYSELF. I haven't finished the game for that reason. It's IMPOSSIBLE to beat that boss without help. I wouldn't reccomend this game because online co-op is a major factor in beating the game, and they don't support that anymore. Sry Activision.

Purchased this game at release with the intent of playing online co-op with my brothers. Never could sucessfully join a lobby together and it is sitll broken to this day. If only refunds were allowed back then...

I played and beat the game before the patch and yes it was buggy and frustrating at times. But if you are a true turtles fan this game is a whole lot of fun and definately worth the $15.

This game get's BAD reviews for no reason here on Steam. They say No Co-Op Play... but It DOES have Coop play. However, when the game first came out, you needed to do a bit of troubleshooting to get it to work. Now, Coop Play is in full effect and working correctly. All and all, It's the best Ninja Turtles game to date. Comes with a Throwback Local Coop Arcade mode, a Story mode with internet Coop play, as well as challenge and fighting modes. It's worh the $15... at least it is now, after the bugs we're resolved. :)

For me, the best game I have ever played from the Turtles, regarding the turtles posture, the jokes, the fighting style, the environments. But... there's lots of things that the game should have. The game could have more levels, more enemy known characters, cinematics and (off course) a continuation, since there's few Turles games to be played :)
Anyway, for TMNT fans, the game still is very great to play alone or with friends.

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This game is a trainwreck on wheels but its still a fun short ride for what it is. The game is an old school button masher mostly just hit the x button for attack, there is a kick button but its not needed. The game is low budget and the devs did a great job with what little it seems like they had budget wise to work with. They opted out of cut scenes using a comic panel style to spend more time and money on the game itself. The gameplay is fun and easy for anyone to play, just hit everything in sight. The action stays fresh because you can switch turtles to use their different weapons.

Most of the game is very dark and some parts are just entirely pitch black or unfinished maybe? The camera is zoomed in real close and for some reason seems to point down alot making it one of those games where you fight the camera. The combat is like a cheap version of Batman but somehow balanced very well. In batman the combat is fluid while in this its stunted leaving your character swinging weapons in the air while facing an enemy. The game is real short almost to the point of feeling like its just an episode which would be great if they make more but it seems like the game is just left to rot even though people worked hard on it. All the turtles look sorta strange with elongated limbs and necks, so does April which must be some artistic choice like with Splinter where he looks more like a werewolf than a rat.

Even with all those negatives the game is still a fun beat em up brawler that anyone can pick up and play anytime without complex controls to master which is great and satisfying to play. Lots of fun dialog makes all those things you should hate about the game fade into the background somehow. Its really true magic to play a game riddled with normally gamebreaking mechanics and yet still have fun doing it.

Rating: 7/10 Value: $7.99

COOP doesn't work. No video options, bad console port. Don't buy unless you want a single player game with no configuration options, limited available resolutions and a camera so tight and close on the characters (with no options to change it) they might as well call it "TMNT the Proctology Exam"

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Out of the Shadows is a tragic case of Activision being Activision. The game is much better than the two recent games released on XBOX 360 based off of the television series (TMNT and TMNT:DOTO), but yet this installment leaves such a foul taste in the mouth when thinking about it. The game is unfinished, with extemely low-quality textures and low-quality audio on both music, and voice acting that sounds like it was recorded with tin cans instead of proper microphones (even if the Voice Actors themselves are talented, they sound ♥♥♥♥ here). The low-quality textures are hidden under attrocious lighting effects created by what feels like a gimped version of Unreal 3, and if you could see the models, you'd notice that they ended up doing a copy-pasta job in most levels, meaning that levels look the same all over, making it easy, especially in the opening level, to get lost in the subway tunnel section and end up running into invisible walls if you aren't paying attention and miss the train platforms.

The gameplay, with more work again would have been immensely satisfying. Although movement and combat animation and responses feels somewhat floaty, the game actually does make a good button masher with some Batman Arkham combat elements thrown in, barring counters which feel unresponsive in some areas. When played with the under-developed practise/arcade mode, which throws you into a more traditional TMNT arcade game-like world, the game really comes into its own, playing really well and actually being enjoyable. The problem is that this is not the main game, but this side-mode is so much more fun than the base game. I was never able to play multiplayer, due to Activision never patching the multiplayer service to actually work without tricks and external tweaking, and the fact that I couldn't get any of my friends on Steam to buy it because they thought it looked like ♥♥♥♥ based on the promotional material.

In the end, TMNT Out of the Shadows feels like an absolute failure, and that's because it is. Activision pushed out a game that would never come into its own because they prefered to pretend it didn't exist. The game, in the state you can buy it in is an absolute insult to the franchise, and shows what Activision thinks of the licenses it holds. As much as I wish I could recommend it to people, I have to tell people to avoid it like the plague. Then again, that isn't too hard, the game is dead, and although still on sale, I don't think anyone would buy it anyway, unless you're a mad fan who feels the need to play every TMNT game.