4:50 pm on 10 May, 2012
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A rumor has surfaced throughout the net over the last week or so that has absolutely no evidence whatsoever. The farthest back I can trace it is to a post from January 22 on the Paul Gale Network, and he openly admitted that he had nothing other than some educated guesswork to back it up with. Allegedly, the coincidentally named Rocksteady Studios, developers behind Batman: Arkham Asylum and its sequel, Arkham City, are planning not another Batman title for their next project, but a take on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Quoted from Paul Gale's page, here's everything his completely unreliable sources have on the game:
"- 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."
So, here's my thinking on this. Even in the highly likely event that Rocksteady isn't, and has no plans of, working on anything resembling Manhattan Crisis, the internet that generated the rumor could very plausibly convince them or another studio to do so simply by wishing and hoping really hard. What's everybody else think about this? I, for one, would LOVE this game, probably more than the Arkham games, simply because (brace yourselves) the Ninja Turtles are so much more loveable than a billionaire with a bat costume. Anyone else really hoping this actually happens?
7:49 pm on 29 Jan, 2012