Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal

Rating: E10+

Score 5.0/10

Fed up with the Looney Tunes, the evil Dr. Frankenbeans plans to defeat the characters by going back in time and erasing their existence. However, Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian steal the time machine blueprints and build one of their own with the help of the other toons. Can the Looney Tunes stop Dr. Frankenbeans? This game is available for Playstation 2, Xbox 360, and the Nintendo Wii.

The first and main problem in this game is the levels: each level is repetitive, boring and too long. A level consists of a handful of simple puzzles and a lot of attacking and jumping. A normal level has around 15 minutes of using the same three hit combos on the same overused robots and jumping over all the same easy gaps and soling the same easy puzzles. Sure, you can change your character midlevel – too bad the only differences between characters are the primary weapon used and the annoying catchphrases.

Aside from the normal weapons your character might posses, you can pick up (and I use the term loosely),different long-range weapons, like shotguns and machine guns. How often do you run into such a weapon? Not often enough. Some enemies carry such weapons and after being defeated, they give their weapon to you. When you get it though, you’ll be unpleasantly surprised to see a very limited amount of ammunition, not even enough to get you past the next round of enemies. If you can find a weapon-respawning place, though, you can oh so easily get infinite ammo. Simply stand at the respawning place and wait. The weapon will continuously respawn, giving you all the ammo you’ll ever need. You can get huge amounts of ammo to beat this game even more easily.

The easiest way to beat this game is to take advantage of the game’s best feature – Co-op story mode but good luck trying to find a friend desperate enough to play this game with you! There’s also a battle mode, and it’s only two player split screen. That’s disappointing, since all three systems have online capabilities and this game would be a perfect online multiplayer game.

There’s really no reason to pop this game in your game system. Once you’ve seen Bugs Bunny whack a robot with his banjo, you’ve seen all this game has to offer. It’s like Porky Pig says: “T-T-That’s all, Folks!”