Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up is a fighting video game for the Wii and PlayStation 2 video game consoles, developed by Game Arts in collaboration with Mirage Studios and published by Ubisoft to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 2009. The game is a 4-player 2.5D fighting game, similar to the Super Smash Bros. series. During the fight, players try to knock out their opponents by using up their life bar, knocking them off the stage, or throwing them into traps. Like Super Smash Bros, the game offers many customizable options for the fights. The game places a lot of emphasis on interacting with the environment and offers traps, changes to the stage and interactive elements. The game system also includes items such as life-support pizza and ninja abilities that give players special abilities such as fire breathing and electric shields. The modes for this game include Arcade, Battle Royal, Survival, Tournament, Swap-Out, Practice, and Mission Mode, as well as a four-player online mode and minigames. Players can collect "shells" during battles or mini-games to unlock special features, including trophies that other players can win in online tournaments. Arcade mode features animated cutscenes illustrated by Mirage Studios artists.
Story
The plot is about Splinter organizing a tournament for his sons Casey Jones and April O'Neil; Splinter himself also decides to participate in the tournament. After the winner is crowned, they are to choose a trophy and something from Splinter's personal closet. But suddenly, Professor Honeycutt calls them on the emergency line and tells the Turtles that he has been kidnapped by the Shredder. Shredder interferes in the conversation, stating that the line is not secure. He taunts the Turtles and says that they will not get Fugitoid back. While they brood outside, Karai appears and says that the Shredder captured Fugitoid to force him to make a transmat to teleport his armies around the world. After defeating the Shredder, Karai reveals that she used the Turtles to get rid of the Shredder so she could usurp the Foot Clan from her father. Shredder gets back up and Leonardo kicks him into Karai. Honeycutt flips the switch on the transmat that Shredder and Karai landed on and teleports them to an unknown location. Back in the sewers, Splinter hands out the prizes to the winner of the tournament. The game comes with a comic book that tells the story up to the point before Shredder's defeat. Scenes that didn't appear in the game include Donatello manipulating Renet's time scepter to take her to Shredder's Tōkyō base, but it doesn't work and they zap through time, which provides an explanation for the bizarre locations like the Old West and the Japanese castle. The first time they teleport with the scepter, a giant alligator breaks through a sewer wall and is accidentally transported to the Amazon rainforest, which explains why the alligator is found in both the sewers and the Amazon. In the Japanese castle, the Turtles encounter an army of samurai that turns out to be a Japanese demon named Oni. The story ends after Fugitoid is rescued and the Shredder appears for the fight.