10 Criminally Underrated Comic Book Video Games You Must Play

8. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Battle Nexus

Yes, while the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles may have primarily made a name for themselves through cartoons and films, the brothers four actually started out life in the pages of a Mirage comic, written and drawn by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird.

Of course, if you were to recommend any one TMNT game for fans to play, it would be Turtles in Time. (The original - not the iffy remake.) That said, there are a few hidden, Turtle-y awesome gems out there for players to find if they go searching, and for those who loved the 2003 animated series (y'know, the one with the CRAZY good theme and dark tone), Battle Nexus should be their first port of call.

A follow-up to the show's first beat-em-up tie-in that released in 2003 (another fun title, by the way), Battle Nexus adapted the second season of the show and allowed up to four players to take control of Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo and Raphael, as well as other bonus characters like Splinter, Casey Jones and the edgiest edgelord space samurai to ever wield a giant scythe... thing, Slashuur.

It's definitely not the most intricate game going, but it's nowhere near deserving of the dismal review scores it got upon launch. Grab a friend, a slice of your favourite pizza, and enjoy bashing Foot ninjas while quipping terrible shell-based puns.