Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal

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Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal
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Developer(s) Redtribe
Publisher(s) Warner Bros. Games
Platform(s) Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2
Release date USA October 9, 2007 [1]
JPN TBA, 2007
PAL Fall, 2007
Genre(s) Action/Adventure
Mode(s) Single player, Multiplayer
Rating(s) ESRB: Everyone 10+
OFLC: PG
Media Wii Optical Disc, DVD

Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal is a third-person, action-adventure game developed for the Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2.

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[edit] Story

Being fed up with the Looney Tunes, the Evil Dr. Frankenbeans plans to defeat the Looney Tunes by going back in time and erasing them from time. However, Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian steal the time machine blueprints and build one of their own with the other toons. Travel back in different time stages like the Wild West, buying characters and weapons from the ACME Arsenal to defeat Dr. Frankenbeans and his robot minions.

[edit] Characters

This is the list of characters which have been seen in either the trailer or screenshots.

[edit] Unplayable

[edit] Costumes

These can be unlocked by collecting coins in levels and buying them in cases.

  • Super Bunny
  • Girl Bugs
  • Baseball Bugs
  • Duck Dodgers
  • Super Taz
  • Super Marvin
  • Super Foghorn
  • Drag Bugs
  • Robin Hood Daffy
  • Super Gossamer

[edit] Gameplay

The game features both single player and two-player cooperative play. Gameplay is similar to many platformer games including combat, puzzle solving and vehicle-based levels. [1] The game also features an "Acme Battle Mode". In this mode, two players fight each other as different characters.

[edit] Levels & Worlds

The official trailer has shown many stages based on classic Looney Tunes shows including:

  • Wild West (to rescue Yosemity Sam)
  • World War I (to rescue Foghorn Leghorn)
  • Ancient Egypt (to rescue Bugs Bunny)
  • Tazmania (to rescue Taz)
  • Mars (to rescue Marvin the Martian)
  • Camelot.[1] (to rescue Daffy Duck)

[edit] Differences Between Versions

According to IGN the Wii version will use the Wii Remote for attacks. The Xbox 360 The Xbox 360 version will include online multiplayer and the PlayStation 2 version will include an exclusive Wile E. Coyote level.[1]

[edit] Production History

In May 16, 2007 Warner Bros. Interactive released the first trailer of the game [2]. This is the third Looney Tunes game to involve time-travel as a theme (Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time and Bugs Bunny and Taz: Time Busters previously utilized this theme). A demo for the game was released on the Xbox Live Marketplace on October 5th, 2007 for the USA, and hours later for the rest of the world.

[edit] Reviews

Reviews for Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal were mixed. Gamespot criticised the game because it tried to borrow heavily off of Ratchet and Clank. Game Informer gave it a 1.75, calling it "the low point of Bugs Bunny's career".

[edit] Cast

[edit] References to Looney Tunes Shorts

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  • The castle interior in Hair-Raising Hare is the inspiration for the indoor look and feel of the Evil Scientist's castle.
  • The same pictures on the castle walls in Hair-Raising Hare appear on the walls.
  • The Evil Scientist's castle in Water, Water Every Hare can be found in the game's opening cinematic and is the setting for the first and last chapters of the game.
  • Just like Water, Water Every Hare, the first level has a "MONSTER" door too.
  • The Camelot level is inspired by the cartoon Knighty Knight Bugs.
  • The STOP and GO signs directing traffic in Drip-Along Daffy direct the train traffic in the Wild West level. Also, the environment in that cartoon is also included in the Wild West level. Nasty Canasta, the antagonist of that short, appears as an enemy in several levels.
  • The train similar to the one in Bugs Bunny Rides Again is present in the Wild West level.
  • Sing Song Prison from Big House Bunny provided the idea for Boot Hill Prison.
  • The look and feel of the videogame's Boot Hill Prison takes after the interior appearance of Sing Song Prison.
  • Sam dressed in a prison uniform is the inspiration behind his ancestor in the game.
  • Hare-way to the Stars is the direct inspiration for the look and feel of the Mars level.
  • The Instant Martians in Hare-way To The Stars replace most robots in The Great Fashion Show.
  • The Mars level of the game lets you race a jet scooter through space just as Bugs does in Hare-way To The Stars.
  • The title of "Bully for Porky" is a reference to the short Bully for Bugs, making a joke to the fact that Evil Porky is riding the bull from that short in the fight.

[edit] References

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  1. ^ a b c Daily Game: Looney Tunes Game Announced

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