Teen Titans is one of the newest things down the pipe from DC Comics both in print and animation format. This title is currently based around the animated series actively running all through the week on Cartoon Network in the early evening, and not as much on the world of the book. The series centers around basically a "Justice League" for kids. This has in its regular ranks five heroes, led by the familiar Robin. The other four in the group are Raven, Beast Boy, Starfire, and Cyborg. The premise of this title is that Brother Blood is at it again with yet another plot to try and destroy the Teen Titans once and for all. In order to work towards his goal of world domination, deep within Hive Academy he and his star students have collected data and assembled clones of the Teen Titans. These clones can harness their powers, and are key to his victory. It’s your job to stop it.

Audio and Visuals:
The package given to the game for both audio and visual are decent, but for the most part nothing to be incredibly wowed about. Visually, the game doesn’t go into vast levels of detail in either enemy design or most of the general backgrounds in the stages. Where the game does excel visually are the appearances of the sprites of the heroes, the enemy student bosses, and then Brother Blood. Each sprite has a fair bit of animation to it and a level of detail has been paid attention to each to make sure they visually please fans of the series. Aside from the heavy hitters in the game, what is left is not very varied. Most the time you will encounter hive troopers, which come in ground, airborne, armed, or just the oversized variety. Each tropper looks exactly the same and only vary by color, much like very early 8 and 16bit side scrolling games would look. Stages in the game, while using fair bit of color and detail, really don’t use all that much, and as a result there’s a common feeling of deja-vu as you experience similar looking stages. This can cause the player to become confused while progressing through the more open and wide expanses of the stages.

In the audio department the game does have a few highlights, but one thing it greatly lacks is variety. As you progress through the game it won’t take long to realize that while the audio has some great riffs and beats, there are few there, just a handful of tracks at best. Sadly, this will cause the music of the game to either just vanish as your attention is within combat or you’ll get bored with it. What there is of the music is a pretty decent sample and at times will even use a rare bit of speech, such as singing "Teen Titans" on the title screen. They used a sample from the Japanese group Puffy AmiYumi girls. In the sound effects category we are given a few well sampled verbal effects from all the Titans. It could be a yell or a grunt, up to having Raven call off a magic chant in order to summon down a spell on the enemy. Beyond the verbalizations though the sound effects are your standard fare. They are present and are functional, but don’t really catch your ear all that much. Considering they used Shin’en’s excellent audio core for the full audio package in the game, I’m sad to think what more could have been done given a little bit of effort.