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 On 02/24/2015 at 06:57 PM by NintendoFanJon See More From This User » |
Everybody loves Looney Tunes. If you were a kid growing up then you knew the character of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, etc. And they were all voiced by legend Mel Blanc. These days Looney Tunes has changed a bit. Wile E Coyote chases Road Runner in complete CGI instead of hand drawn sketches. Merry Melodies are also a lot more different featuring Marvin Martian singing "I'm a Martian!" It's a different era. I remember playing many a game featuring Looney Tunes characters. Some were good, some not. Today I review the latter.
According to the story, a mysterious mad scientist has invented a time machine and sent his robot goons back in time to eliminate the Looney Tunes characters' ancestors, which would erase Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, and the rest of the Looney gang from existence. Luckily, Bugs Bunny catches wind of the plan and rallies the other toons, who decide to travel back in time to set things right.
Okay so here goes. Acme Arsenal is poorly designed, lazily animated, utterly unoriginal and painful to play. Now thanks to the Wii's motion controls...it's physically painful too. So Acme Arsenal takes ideas straight from Ratchet & Clank and executes them poorly. It's like they watched somebody play it, thought hey that's a neat idea, and decided to implement it into this game with no knowledge whatsoever in video game mechanics.
The guns are dull and tiresome to use. The targeting system is rubbish, constantly assuming you'd rather shoot an inanimate object than the enemy coming towards you. So you'll probably resort to melee combat. Unless you're playing the Wii version, as I did, in which case you'll probably resort to throwing the game out the window. You're supposed to shake the remote and press various buttons to perform different moves. However, it's all so unresponsive you'll end up shaking and pressing everything to make your character do anything useful at all.
When you're not engaged in shitty combat you'll find yourself endlessly jumping over gaps, solving tedious puzzles and bashing open crates. Visually the game is flat and lifeless, the graphics are seemingly inspired by the dullest of the Looney Tunes cartoons. The characters make annoying noises all the time and their hit-and-miss one-liners are repeated all too often. All in all Acme Arsenal is a chore to play, even if you're a fan
There's simply nothing redeeming about Acme Arsenal. It's an incredibly poor, woefully unentertaining. absolute bore to play. It doesn't get nearly enough right to be anywhere close to average. It isn't fun, it certainly isn't funny, and the game's aspects are going to fluster anyone who plays it.
Review: A bomb delivered straight out of acme.
So what's up next doc?
I played a demo of that Looney Tunes game. I wasn't impressed. I haven't played any really good Looney Tunes games. There was a Duck Dodgers game on the SNES I kinda liked, and Duck Amuck on the DS was somewhat amusing, but that's it.
And Namco Museum Remix wasn't THAT bad!
Looney Tunes Space Race was like a perfect dreamcast racer for me. That and Sheep Raider on the PS1 was great to play as the coyote to try and steal sheep.
Now those look like N64 worthy graphics, perhaps Atari Jaguar if aren't feeling kind. From what you describe, it really seems to be a game made for a quick buck like any shovelware.
It most certainly plays like it was meant as a cash grab...kinda like Space Jam
Too bad. I seem to recall liking Tazmanian Devil on SNES as well as a Roadrunner game. Probably nostalgia though. I actually thought Animaniacs on SNES was a bit too hard (I know that's not Looney Tunes, but it is WB).
Yeah there are good looney tunes games and Animaniacs was pretty fun. This game though is dismal.
I rented the Animaniacs game on SNES and I agree, it was too hard! The Tiny Toons SNES game was pretty awesome, though.
I have that Namco Remix game for WIi. Haven't played it yet though. I will be peeking through my hands covering my eyes, afraid to look at what will surely be a review of a bad game.
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