The highly-anticipated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge arrives on Xbox Game Pass this Thursday, June 16th, and the reviews have been dropping today, including here at Pure Xbox where we gave it a 9/10!
But what about everywhere else? Well, it seems pretty much everyone agrees with us, as the game is getting superb ratings across the board. Here's a look at a handful of reviews we've come across:
Pure Xbox (9/10)
"With a look and feel that painstakingly recreates classics such as Turtles in Time, whilst adding in a ton more detail, refining combat and giving you six player online/local co-op to boot, this is a fantastic slice of arcade beat 'em up nostalgia that old hands, diehard fans and newcomers alike can enjoy in equal measure. It is, in short, one shell of a good time."
Digital Trends (5/5)
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge is a must-play for both TMNT and beat-’em-up fans alike. It’s a game that takes what worked in the past, but still finds space to innovate beyond its fan service and nostalgia play."
Nintendo Life (9/10)
"Two years in the making, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge is the best Turtles beat 'em up ever made, and a faster, better-looking, and more entertaining affair than even Streets of Rage 4. It looks delicious, sounds superb, and rekindles childhood memories beyond all expectation, time-warping you back to 1987."
Game Informer (8.75/10)
"Turtles fans new and old will find plenty to love, but those possessing a nostalgia for this era of the franchise are in for the biggest treat. Invite some friends, order a pizza, and prepare to relive your childhood in the best possible way."
Push Square (8/10)
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge is a superb beat-'em-up that captures the spirit of Konami's coin-op classics, but modernises them in all the right areas. With smooth combat, gorgeous presentation, and rock-solid rollback netcode, it all adds up to deliver a super fun experience."
IGN (8/10)
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge is exactly what it looks like: A lovingly crafted reimagining of the TMNT arcade beat-em-ups from one of the best beat-em-up developers in the business today."
Polygon (Unscored)
"This game is so mechanically satisfying, so endearingly fun, that I couldn’t wait to hop back into the familiar environments, which remind me so much of crouching around that TV as a kid all those years ago."
The Metacritic scores are still being counted at the time of writing, but it looks like TMNT: Shredder's Revenge is going to sit somewhere around the mid-late 80s or even potentially the early 90s mark as an average, which is an outstanding result for the talented developers at Tribute Games. Bring on Thursday!
Will you be playing TMNT: Shredder's Revenge this week? Let us know down below!
Comments 8
Another awesome game for Game Pass.
@FraserG Correction: it wasn't developed by Dotemu.
@Banjo- Sorry, you're right. It's been a long week.
@FraserG No problem, you always do an excellent job 😊.
Whoa! Wasn't expecting that. I was expecting more Battletoads than Streets of Rage 4. Game on!
Go ninja, go ninja, go go go go!
@Banjo- IGN should correct themselves too since they clearly think Dotemu is the developer too. They are definitely one of the best beat-em-up publishers in the business today though, with an argument that they are probably the best at this point.
@KilloWertz I haven't checked IGN in years LOL. I use Video Games Chronicle for my multiplatform fix.
Do you know what BST time it will be playable on Game Pass?
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