The basic action - comedy-laced combat featuring wacky weapons - looked a bit routine at an E3 preview session. But the production values, from graphics and sound to the "Looney Tunes" personality, seemed solid.
Perhaps more noteworthy - a four-star "wow" for ingenuity - was "Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck." But it's for just one device, the Nintendo DS.
"Duck Amuck" is an homage to a 1953 cartoon in which Daffy Duck is driven wild because he's redrawn in maddening ways by his animator. DS owners get to do the same kind of thing, thanks to device's touch screen-and-microphone technology.
Rub out part of Daffy's body, for instance, and draw in something else with the DS stylus. Use the mike to alter Daffy's voice. And you even can temporarily close the DS while still following audio instructions from Daffy on when to push the left and right shoulder buttons (to achieve the desired result upon reopening). This could be the most humorously clever game of the year.
"Acme Arsenal" and "Duck Amuck" are scheduled for a fall release.
That's why the upcoming "Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal" game is giving those cartoon icons a somewhat bolder, "edged-up" look and feel, in the hope of finding a new flock of fans. Warner Bros. Interactive, which is publishing the game for the Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation 2, is billing the style as "cartoonistic," or "cartoon realistic."
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