I, like a great many others, grew up watching the Looney Tunes cartoons. As a 48-year-old man, I still love them too. Developer Bamtang Games and publisher GameMill Entertainment bring you Looney Tunes Wacky World of Sports, a gathering of some of the greatest cartoon characters battling each other on various sports fields
“Get ready for Basketball, Soccer, Golf and Tennis combined into one Looney Tunes sport game! Gain power-ups to incite chaos against your friends and family as you control your favorite Looney Tunes character in 4-player, local co-op mayhem, but watch out for falling anvils!”
Before I even get into this, I’m English, so I’m writing football and not soccer. The basic premise of Looney Tunes Wacky World of Sports is simple enough. Pick your favourite Looney Toons character and play some sports against the others. There’s no story to follow, which I was a bit disappointed with. It is just playing sports against others. While there is no story, you do get a small handful of game modes though. The main mode is a tournament to win the ACME Golden Anvil trophy. You can set up to play any of the sports individually. There’s also a challenge mode that (funnily enough) gives you various challenges to complete for each sport.
You only get the four sports to play here. There’s golf, which I really could not get on with at all, as it lacks a real “wacky” play style. Aside from some limited power-ups, it’s just plain old golf when they could’ve gone for a crazy golf vibe with over-the-top courses. The football is pretty mediocre too, it’s a simple 3v3 set up and not much going on. Tennis is fairly good fun and definitely one of the best of the four sports on offer. Then there is basketball, which is really a Looney Tunes version of NBA Jam, and it’s fun to play too, by far the best of the four. All of the games have wacky power-ups, but other than that, they play just how you might expect. You do get some cosmetics such as different balls to play with and locations based on Looney Tunes classics.
The line-up of characters is pretty slim too. You get to choose from Road Runner, Lola Bunny, Sylvester; Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig, Taz,Wile E. Coyote, Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny. Yosemite Sam is available as DLC. With the number of classic Looney Tunes characters available, it is a shame not to see more of them playable here. You do get to see some of the others as background characters and such, but they really missed a trick here by not offering a wider and more varied selection.
Priced at £40 for the standard version, or £50 for the deluxe edition with the Yosemite Sam DLC and some minor cosmetics. I honestly don’t think that the amount of game that you get here is worth it. Just the four sports to play, with only two of them being any genuine fun. Looney Tunes Wacky World of Sports needs a lot more meat on the bones to be asking for £40. As I mentioned before, there’s no story to enjoy, and you just get to play a basic tournament and a handful of other bare-bones modes. The challenge mode is the most fun as it adds some much-needed variety to the four sports on offer. Oh, the load times between menus are stupidly long too. I so wanted to enjoy Looney Tunes Wacky World of Sports more. It got the humour right, and the characters feel like they have just walked right out of a cartoon. But it’s just not wacky enough, the lack of Looney Tunes characters to play as, and only four sports to play is a disappointment. If you’re a huge Looney Tunes fan, I’d suggest just waiting for this to drop in price and getting it when it’s closer to £20.
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