[font=Verdana, sans-serif]Take it for what you will, but here's what I got:[/font]
[font=Verdana, sans-serif]- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Manhattan Crisis is the alleged name of the title.
- Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo are the four playable characters, each with their own varied move set and weapon of choice (sword, bo staff, sai, and nunchucku ... respectively).
- Flashbacks are played as Master Splinter / Hamato Yoshi.
- Shurikens, smoke bombs, grappling hooks, and climbing foot spikes.
- Gameplay and story / stage progression similar to Batman: Arkham City.
- Classic characters such as Bebop and Rocksteady (warthog and rhinoceros), Dr. Baxter Stockman, Shredder (Oroku Saki), and Krang act as bosses and in the case of the humans-turned-mutants, you fight them in both forms throughout the story.
- The Turtle Van and Turtle Blimp will be present and with them and other gadgets, the Wii U build is expected to have touch screen controls for specific actions.
- Multiplayer is unknown.
- Graphics engine used is that of Arkham City.
- The game is expected to be more dark than slapstick, but the turtles themselves and their interactions with the Foot Clan, bosses, and story characters like April O'Neil and Casey Jones will still have comedy attached.
- Purportedly being in development for Wii U, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.
- Careful selection of voice actors to bring the universe to life as well as Rocksteady did with their two Batman games.
- Manhattan Crisis shares a similar name to the 1991/1992 NES title, "The Manhattan Project", but is very much its own title.[/font]
[font=Verdana, sans-serif]Before I ask you what your thoughts are, let me tell you why it might be real and why it might be fake.[/font]
[font=Verdana, sans-serif]Real:[/font]
[font=Verdana, sans-serif]- The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles themselves fight similarly to Batman, in that they rely primarily on martial arts expertise and a variety of weapons, rather than incredible super powers.[/font][font=Verdana, sans-serif]This would lean me towards believing that the transition between Arkham City and Manhattan Crisis, from purely a control standpoint, wouldn't be that difficult.[/font][font=Verdana, sans-serif] [/font]
[font=Verdana, sans-serif]- The amount of bad guys, the voice actors attached to them, the story ... once again, all seem pretty comparable in approach and style to Batman's last two games.[/font][font=Verdana, sans-serif] [/font]
[font=Verdana, sans-serif]- The terrain and environments of a night time based, poorly litManhattan City and its respective buildings, bad guy lairs, etc., Seem from a structural standpoint, pretty easy for Rocksteady studios to create ... especially after the blueprints that went into Arkham City .[/font][font=Verdana, sans-serif] [/font]
[font=Verdana, sans-serif]- At E3 2011, shortly after awarding Batman: Arkham City with Paul Gale Network's "Best Adventure Game of E3 2011 Award" and PGN Ninja Star keychain, I spoke with a few team members, saying how cool I personally thought a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle game would be if done dark with a dash of comedy, following a similar model as the Batman games ... by Rocksteady Studios.[/font][font=Verdana, sans-serif] [/font][font=Verdana, sans-serif]At least the couple of individuals that I spoke with, found the idea amusing and[/font][font=Verdana, sans-serif] [/font]
[font=Verdana, sans-serif]ironic when I pointed out that Rocksteady is also a classic Turtles baddie.[/font][font=Verdana, sans-serif] [/font]
[font=Verdana, sans-serif]- IDW Publishing is currently handling a new Teenage Mutuant Ninja Turtles series.[/font][font=Verdana, sans-serif] [/font][font=Verdana, sans-serif]What's important about that?[/font][font=Verdana, sans-serif] [/font][font=Verdana, sans-serif]IDW Publishing and DC Comics (in Quarter 4, 2011) launched Star Trek / Legion of Super-Heroes, a crossover comic book that brings the two properties together ... a first ever uniting, which shows that it's possible that Rocksteady could make such a game (taking their whole DC friendship into account).[/font]
