Today is a big day for those who have been following Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed since it was announced last September. Firstly, we now have a release date: 18th October 2024. Secondly, we finally have a trailer.
Publisher Outright Games has today given us our first proper look at the Turtles' next adventure, a 3D brawler/platformer which follows on from 2023's Mutant Mayhem movie, and it actually looks... not bad?
Mutants Unleashed will see you playing as the four heroes in a half-shell, exploring the open streets and sewers of New York City by rooftops, rails and rides. As a new wave of meddling mutants (designed by Mutant Mayhem character artist Woodrow White, no less) flood the streets, it's up to Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey to keep the peace by kicking some shell — whatever that means.
Each character has his own skill tree (because of course they do) which will help to unlock new skills and locations to explore and each boasts new dialogue by the movie's voice cast. The sketchbook-style visuals which made Mutant Mayhem so appealing also make a comeback and, looking at the trailer, it seems to work well in both gameplay and cutscenes.
All of this can be played either solo or in two-player local co-op to capture some of the brawler chaos that has long defined the series.
Earlier this year, Outright Games revealed the beefy Mutants Unleashed Collector's Edition which is now available to pre-order for an equally beefy £219.99 / €249.99/ $199.99.
Mutants Unleashed will be the third Turtles game of 2023 following the disappointing arcade brawler Wrath of the Mutants and the upcoming Hades-inspired roguelike Splintered Fate.
What do you make of the first Mutants Unleashed trailer? Skate down to the comments and let us know.
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Looks pretty cool, although they might want to slow the amount of TMNT games coming out.
they will never learn.
the only style of TMNT game that works is a fixed point, isometric beat em up
So many TMNT games coming.
I’ll probably get the Splintered Fate one though since it looks interesting to me.
This looks awesome. But need to see more
These turtles games are coming too fast!
Ironically.
The movie was fantastic, the series looks like it has potential, I hope this is good!
Why so many turtles games out of nowhere?? Or is there a popularity boom I’m missing? Welp, either way, this one looks more promising than that roguelite one.
Also, the turtles can definitely work in a variety of gameplay styles besides just beat em ups. Just comes down to competently making the game.
Personally not a fan of this iteration of TMNT looks silly that Donatello has glasses on. Prefer 2003 and 2012 versions. Will skip this one
Don't exclude eventually getting this myself if it ends up being good (fingers crossed that's the case), but between it and Splintered Fate I'd say that the latter has higher priority for me and I doubt I'll play even that before finally tackling the great TMNT I already have on Switch, i.e. Shredder's Revenge and the Cowabunga Collection!
Don't know about this one since im not that much of a fan of this art style =/
The art style of Mutant Mayhem is just awful, it's so incredibly ugly imo and makes it tough to be interested. Maybe I'll give it a shot on sale if it gets killer reviews.
Gameplay looks nice, artwork looks shice...
The turtles must be a very tricky brand it seems. We all have our own wants and interpretation of what is cool.
I do not like how weak and uncool these character look. Enough for a pass most likely.
It looks like ok value providing it’s sub 20. Worse looking turtles game coming but should be ok for very young kids.
The trailer looks great, but I'll have to see how it performs on Switch before deciding to buy it.
Hey I’m down for this.
@roy130390
Well, the game get published by Outright Games so better get the other console version for better performance.
Btw, another game by Outright Games.
I wasn't fan of that TMNT from 2023 movie version but all of those ninja turtles looked different than the movie version.
I will keep my eyes on the gameplay video from Outright Games channel.
This looks absolutely horrendous.... The art style is just blah. I tried watching the Mutant Mayhem movie or whatever it was called, but I had to turn it off after a half hour.
Shredders Revenge is the best game for us these days.
Oh, I thought this was just that generic mobile port that was coming. This looks potentially better.
The character designs are really, really bad. The turtles looked more human than the HUMANS in the movie (April looked the least disformed, at least) - everything about that movie got everything wrong about the turtles. I still hope this game is good, but MAN, this is an uphill battle for the devs and its no fault of their own.
@glennthefrog I agree that the art style is pretty lousy, but the movie itself was pretty good despite that flaw. This game could very well have turned out the same way (although, it appears to have mixed reviews, including here). Gameplay over graphics, after all.
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