Blu Reviews: Warmup Review #1: Looney Tunes Acme Arsenal

[blubomber17]

Whew, helluva title, eh? Anyways, this is my first review. Ever. I sorta ripped the format from IGN, but hey, the writing's my own. Let me know what you guys think!

LOONEY TUNES: ACME ARSENAL

The Looney Tunes are a namesake. They’ve been around almost as long as your grandparents. They’ve been feeding off of laughs for just as long. The iconic cartoon characters are nothing to scoff at. However, this game puts some dirt on the impressive resume.

STORY

According to the manual, the Evil Scientist is pissed and wants all Looney Tunes erased from existence. In order to do this, he built a time machine to send robots back in time to take out the popular Looney Tunes ancestors. The manual ends by saying that the first mission is to steal the plans for the time machine.

Now, in game, here’s the story:

Bugs and Marvin somehow show up at a secret lab. They decide that to survive, they better kick some ass. Apparently, when all was said and done, they got a blueprint to a time machine, and magically appear by Marvin’s spaceship. Marvin, Bugs, and Taz for some reason run inside, and all the other Looney Tunes are somehow in there. Marvin manages to build a time machine in about 30 seconds, and then boldly announces that if they see something they don’t like in the past, they can go back in time to fix it. Long story short, the ending is stupid and damn near irrelevant to the whole “story” anyways, and the game gives random cutscenes, also irrelative.

3/10

GRAPHICS

Bland. Extremely bland. In most levels, the graphics look about PS2 worthy, and are still very glitchy. The enemies also look quite bad and unoriginal. However, on the positive side, the cutscenes run smoothly and look great, along with the character models.

6/10

SOUND

Hey, now this is good. While the music is extremely lame, the voices of the characters are spot-on, and the sound effects match the feel that the game tries to provide (serious and wacky).

8.5/10

GAMEPLAY

And here’s another bump in the road. This game is for the Wii. Unfortunately, it comes with Wiimote waving. Which is GOD AWFUL. A is jump, B is shoot, D-Pad is the camera, C is an Uppercut, and Z is lock-on/strafe for gunplay (which is also quite lame). Nw, how the hell do you attack? By waving the Wiimote side-to-side. Fair warning: it sucks. Although the controls feel damn near awful, once you get used to it, you end up having a lot of fun. The guns are a decent touch, although they are mostly pointless.

3.5/10

EXTRAS AND CHARACTERS

For those familiar with the Looney Tunes, you’ll find all the characters immediately recognizable. Most notably, Bugs Bunny, Marvin the Martian, Daffy Duck, and the Tasmanian Devil. They’ve also included Foghorn Leghorn, Gossamer, and a Hulkified version of Bugs. All characters are fun to use, but are hampered by sloppy controls. As far as extras go, there’s a lame battle mode for up to 4 players, in which you can actually pick the character you want. Also, the only sort of unlockables are hidden trophies throughout the levels, which are only for show and nothing else, and you can buy alternate costumes for the Tunes in battle mode, but they’re hardly noticeable in-game.

OVERALL

Sloppy controls and graphics seem to lead this game towards the garbage, but there is a lot of fun to be had… however, chances are it won’t be found unless you’re a Tunes fan.

7/10 IF YOU’RE A FAN
5.5/10 IF YOU’RE NOT

[blubomber17]

Please do note, this is one of 3-4 reviews solely meant to warm me up for the big stuff I plan on reviewing.

[cheat-master30]

Nice review, but I can tell I wouldn't be a fan.

[Symerwizkid22]

When a game has bad controls, it brings down the whole game drastically.

Nice review. Can't wait for the "big stuff." :)

[Astr0]

That's the things with Nintendo. They're letting producers make rubbish games for the Wii, childish and all(Cooking Mama, Acme Arsenal, etc) so no one takes it seriously anymore. If they put a little more effort into each game then maybe they could get good ratings(Super Mario Galaxy, SSBB(hopefully), Super Paper Mario).

[Yahoo! Slurp]

That's the things with Nintendo. They're letting producers make rubbish games for the Wii, childish and all(Cooking Mama, Acme Arsenal, etc) so no one takes it seriously anymore. If they put a little more effort into each game then maybe they could get good ratings(Super Mario Galaxy, SSBB(hopefully), Super Paper Mario).

My friend said the exact same thing a couple days ago! Noone takes the Wi seriously when idiotic and childish games are too common.

[cheat-master30]

That's the things with Nintendo. They're letting producers make rubbish games for the Wii, childish and all(Cooking Mama, Acme Arsenal, etc) so no one takes it seriously anymore. If they put a little more effort into each game then maybe they could get good ratings(Super Mario Galaxy, SSBB(hopefully), Super Paper Mario).

That's the things with Nintendo. They're letting producers make rubbish games for the Wii, childish and all(Cooking Mama, Acme Arsenal, etc) so no one takes it seriously anymore. If they put a little more effort into each game then maybe they could get good ratings(Super Mario Galaxy, SSBB(hopefully), Super Paper Mario).

My friend said the exact same thing a couple days ago! Noone takes the Wi seriously when idiotic and childish games are too common.

The junk games for the Wii are not Nintendo exclusive. They are generally mass released across all consoles shortly after the source material has been released as a book/film/TV show. But here are the reasons that they are released and are crap:

1. Makers of such games rarely get any contact with the makers of the film or TV show or whatever that the games are based on. Hence it's usually ROUGHLY following the plot with random junk thrown in.

2. They get a very short amount of time to make such games, and probably a very low budget. Hence the games are rushed and often look/sound bad.

3. They are only released a lot on the Wii because the Wii is selling a heck of a lot more than the competition at this moment. They occurred on all the old systems (hello, ET? That game that nearly caused the market crash?) as well as the Playstation systems before now, the Gameboy systems etc. They're sold on anything where profit will be made. Heck, a ton even gets sold for computers. Hence probably why it's not so noticable on the PS3 (because it's massively failing and to release a version for the console would cause losses rather than sales).

But yeah, they need more rigorous testing and more quality control. Heck, that's what the 'Nintendo Seal of Quality' was for. That's why it seems so appropriate on Nintendo's own good games.