Join Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection. In addition to online play, we would have loved to see the option to reconfigure your controls, a practice mode and a $5 price tag.

As with most of the classic games on Live Arcade, longtime fans will probably love this game and the online play. If you still have it, you would be better suited whipping out the old Sega Genesis. With a D-Pad as accurate as Dick Cheney with a shotgun and an analog stick better suited for Halo, performing the tap-tap special moves proves exceedingly difficult. The final gripe is the 360 controller itself. For the politically correct, you do have the option of turning off blood and violence, although I have no idea what turning off violence does since you can still roundhouse-kick an opponent in the face, and spray his blood across the screen. If any fighter needs a practice mode, it's UMK3, thanks to the hundreds of combos waiting to be discovered and mastered. Not only does the game not come with a practice mode (perfect for, um, perfecting combos and special moves), but there are no control options and not even a move list (quickly remedied with a simple Google search). Other than a healthy dose of achievements, things that should have come with this $10 game are sorely missed, and make you question the value. The graphics and sound are identical, although you do have the option to stretch the dimensions of the game into widescreen. This is better than slowdown that ruins the timing of combos and special moves, and a necessary evil, I suppose. Lag is an issue, though most of the time the game doesn't slow down instead, it pauses for a second or two, interrupting the flow of the match. Multiplayer and Xbox Live is where this game really shines as your friends don't cheat, and all those hours of memorizing move lists and fatalities finally pays off. The 360 does add a bit, most notable online play and leaderboards. This has been a problem for, like, ever with Mortal Kombat.

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