TMNT: Mutants In Manhattan - 10 Things Fans Are Going To Love
7. It Has An Open World
Platinum Games
If you can cast your mind back to early 2012, you may remember a rather odd but exciting rumour that was the doing the rounds online, claiming that Rocksteady - those amazing artists who redefined the comic book gaming genre with Arkham Asylum - were in fact making a TMNT game. That rumour (sadly) never panned out, leaving fans' dreams of a highly-stylistic, character-driven title based on the heroes in a half shell well and truly buried. Well, until now at least.
It may not look like the most inhabited locale on offer in a comic book title, but it damn sure looks pretty. New York looks like its leaped straight from the pages of Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's original Mirage series - with the added bonus of colour - and it just looks fabulous.
Again, what it lacks in depth it more than makes up for in personality. It's the perfect imitation of the characters' stomping grounds and will no doubt bridge missions together suitably. Maybe it'll get even better in a potential sequel?
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
