Despite being on our radar since its announcement last year, we have seen remarkably little of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed, the upcoming 3D platformer / brawler from developer A Heartful of Games and publisher Outright Games. That is until today! An all-new gameplay trailer has arrived to kick some shell and things are still looking pretty good.
Building on the first gameplay glimpse we got in July, today's new footage starts to introduce us to the game's story (as narrated by one April O'Neil). A bunch of baddie mutants are on the loose — in a Turtles game? What are the odds?? — and it's up to the heroes in a half-shell to shut them down. We can see combat aplenty and some of the basic platforming challenges too, in what appears to be both single-player and co-op modes.
All this follows immediately on from 2023's awesome Mutant Mayhem film, utilising the same "3D-meets-2D" art style that really made the movie pop and bringing the four lead voice actors back for some new dialogue.
We have to say, once again, it doesn't look too shabby at all. Sure, some of the eye animations are a little dead in the odd sequence, but the combat looks entertaining enough and the visuals suit the gameplay far better than we expected. Let's just hope things run smoothly on Switch when it launches on 18th October...
Earlier this year, Outright Games revealed the beefy Mutants Unleashed physical collector's edition, which packs in a totally tubular amount of Turtles merch but comes with a hefty £219.99 / €249.99/ $199.99 price tag. Yep, we were pretty shell shocked too.
This will be the third TMNT landing on Switch this year after the rough arcade brawler Wrath of the Mutants and the fairly fun Hades-like Splintered Fate. The more the merrier, eh?
Will you be picking up Mutants Unleashed next month? Shred it in the comments to let us know.
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While this is far from my favorite incarnation of the Turtles (mostly characterization-wise, don't mind and even kind of like the artstyle), this game seems like it could be fun based on this trailer so I'm keeping my eye on it - hope Nintendo Life will review it if possible!
@JohnnyMind I don't mind it. Nitpick, but if I never found out the turtles are suppose to be 15, I could better buy into some of the incarnations over the years.
I know it's silly, but it always bugs me when someone makes a teen protagonist who acts like someone 3 times their age. From the way they speak and act, it just makes it hard to not to laugh at how silly it is.
Looks like it could be pretty decent, and I think largely because they've leaned into the visual style they went with in the recent movie.
Side point: I thought Across the Spider-Verse visually looked crap, with some extremely lazy art and animation in places, and was waaay overhyped. Whereas I actually thought that Turtles movie looked really good artistically and was rather overlooked by comparison.
I'm glad something other than the 80s turtles get games more often now
but where is the Rise game?!
Yo!
TMNT by Outright Games. 🙂
I will look the PS5 version.
@Bratwurst35 To be fair, being a teen doesn't necessarily mean being the way the Turtles etc. are portrayed in this movie which honestly has never appealed to me even when I was a teen myself while the little I've seen of other incarnations of TMNT I liked regardless of my age the first time I've seen them - to know for sure though I should finally watch/read/play more of or for the first time the various shows/comics/games!
Turtles fans have been absolutely feasting the past couple years. Dining on turtle soup, if you will.
Please, let it run properly on Switch. I'd love a decent 3D TMNT platformer.
This really looks like it'll be a pretty decent time. When it was first announced, I had no hope after seeing the publisher (and I was one of those that was not much of a fan of the movie, to put it nicely). Maybe they're turning a new leaf, or AHEARTFULOFGAMES is just really good. (Probably the latter. Heart&Slash is really good, I actually bought it due to the announcement of this game way back.)
I also am totally tubular, Shell out for me my peeps.
This looks pretty decent. Hope it runs well on the switch. I’m happy to see some of the 3 d platforming and wall running in this to set it apart from the awesome 2d turtles brawlers we already have.
@RetroGames I do not agree with your Spider-Verse take in the slightest, but I do think that TMNT Mutant Mayhem was overlooked and looked great.
Also as much as I love Across the Spider-Verse, at least Mutant Mayhem didn't end on a cliffhanger that is currently forcing me to wait like four years for this damned third part.
I'm torn. I loved the movie's art style, but I hated the revisionism, especially making them punier. Michelangelo looks much younger, which would mean he's from a different litter. Donatello is supposed to sound dorky but not prepubescent. It seemed designed to over-pander to all age ranges, but I don't recall having any issue liking the teenage turtles before becoming a teenager myself.
Removed - unconstructive
Teenage Mutant Emaciated Turtles
I know the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and you, sir, are no Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Hope this is good as I didn't like Splintered Fate at all.
My kids are into it, means I am into it. Looks like a good time to me!
@Thomystic If it changes anything for you, Donnie's VA hit puberty between the first movie and recording lines for the animated series/this game. He's a much better fit now that he's not squeaky.
Yes , they needed another take. That voice over was terrible.
God, I hate their voices and their look. The overall art style is fine but they ruined Mikey and Donny. Raph looks ok and at least Leo looks normal. They nailed it in the 2012 Nick show, why not stick with similar look? At least it's better than the dumpster fire that was the ugly Rise of TMNT art.
With that said, the movie was good, show ok and this game will probably be fine.
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