Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion XL

by SVG Distribution

Product Features

• 18 playable Cartoon Network characters
• Fight in 21 Battle Arenas
• Experience 32 levels in a unique adventure crafted by a Cartoon Network writer
• Unleash unique special attacks, discover hidden objects, take on devious bosses

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B004Q4PEV6
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 8, 2011
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,553 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #45 in Video Games > Xbox 360 > Action > Fighting

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Your favorite characters from Cartoon Network™ are coming together in one epic battler!
			Did you ever wonder what would happen if Humungousaur and Samurai Jack met up in a dark alley? What if Dexter took on Mac and Bloo? The possibilities are endless! If only there was a way to get all your favorite cartoon characters together... Well you don't have to wait any longer... Get ready for a Punch Time Explosion! Cartoon Network Punch Time Explosion XL is a fighting game featuring characters from some of the most iconic shows on Cartoon Network. This is the network's first ever all-star brawler! Fans can go to toe-to-toe with characters from 11 of Cartoon Network's shows including The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory, Chowder and many more. Features: Story mode: Experience an original cross-over storyline to blow your mind! Use your favorite Cartoon Network characters to battle your way towards the mysterious force that is causing villains to unite and universes to collide. You can even play co-op Story mode with up to 4 players! Gather your forces, fighters, and prepare for the ultimate battle! Battle mode: Fight against friends or CPUs in this fast-paced action packed mode for up to 4 players. Use a variety of different attacks to knock your opponents off of the map. Every character has its own unique moves which keeps the action fresh and exciting! Arcade mode: Tournament style battles! Play through a series of unique fights to reach the end. You'll even have allies join you for some matches. Training mode: This mode lets you practice with any character of your choice to better understand the way they play. You can even choose the behavior of the computer opponent. PTE mode: Instead of just fighting, your goal is to collect energy cubes to build your PTE meter. Collect more than your opponents to win! Fight the drones mode: In this mode, you have to fight waves of enemies, while still fighting off your opponents. Whoever destroys more drones wins! 26 different characters from your favorite shows such as Ben Tennyson, FlapJack, Monkey and Numbah One! Plus, some characters that are all new to XL such as Johnny Bravo, Scotsman, and Aku! 26 different battle arenas, all based around your favorite shows! Fight on the pier of Stormalong Harbor, the roofs of Townsville, or in the Foster's Mansion, just to name a few! Punch Time Explosions: The more you fight, the more your PTE gauge can build up. Get it maxed out, and unleash your PTE on your opponents for a crushing attack! Every character has their own breathtaking PTE to use to their advantage. Signature Attacks: Each character has four signature attacks which have a unique visual flavor that represents them. For example, Ben Tennyson's signature attacks morph him into 4 different forms! Synergy Attacks: Call on various other characters to help you in battle! Synergies are crushing double team attacks similar to PTEs. Panini, Val Hallen, and Fred Fredburger are only a few of the assist characters featured! PTE Store: By battling, you can earn coins to purchase cool unlockable items and characters! You can even unlock actual clips from your favorite Cartoon Network shows! Use the vault to keep track of your records and stats!
Get ready for some chaotic non-stop action featuring your favorite Cartoon Network characters in Cartoon Network Punch Time Explosion XL!

Product Description

Mysterious forces are at work when worlds collide and the casts of eleven of the biggest Cartoon Network shows battle one another in this all-star brawler! Play as 18 of your favorite Cartoon Network characters based on your favorite show, and look out for cameos from an additional 19 characters that jump in and assist in combat! Multiple play styles including Battle Mode and Story Mode

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars My childhood has caught up to me., December 6, 2011

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GamevsGame - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion XL (Video Game)

One day, I was thinking to myself...

What would it be like to put other characters in a super smash brothers style fighter. Here, I got my answer. Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion XL is a very good take on the subject. With characters from my childhood, leading to the shows i like today, just playing the game with friends is just amazing.

THE GAME ITSELF:

The game plays alot like Super Smash Bros. Brawl but with different gimmick's such as;

+The Damage gimmick is still in this game, but if a player hits more then 300% damage in story mode, they will automatically die without warning.

+The final smash (re-named Punch Time Explosion in this game) can be used at anytime, as long as the player has enough energy cubes to do it. but, the PTE button takes up a certain button, whereas smash bros brawl uses its neutral B/1 (special attack) to use a final smash. to sum it all up, the final smash system is pretty good, but the fact that it uses one button and that one button isn't used at all but that one thing is pretty useless to me.

PROS:

+ This game features an "unlock shop", were the player can buy extra character's (only character's that were featured in the 3DS version as assist are available to purchase) more costumes for your favorite character, more stages to fight on, and even hilarious memorable clips from my favorite CN shows!

+ The game takes alot of arena's from different CN shows, to be exact, each CN show in the game gets 2 to 3 arena's to play on.

+ The RowdyRuff Boy's are playable

+ Very catchy theme song.

CONS:

- The game is Ed, Edd, and Eddy less... (I have read that Cartoon Network sold the rights of the Edd's to a different company after "big picture show").

- The Assist character's harm the summoner as well (only General Scar and Madam Foster are the only known assist characters that don't hard the summoner).

- The UI in game could be re-sized to the point were I don't have to squint my eyes to see my damage percent.

- A chunk of the character roster needs to be unlocked by completing story mode (you only start with 9 characters).

- Some CPU players walk on air at times.

- synergy attacks is a 1 in 28 chance to land on the right character (to preform a synergy attack, the player has to collect a summon cube. However, the character that comes out has to be the one that matches your character in some way. (ex: Fred Fred Burger and Ben, Gwen and Blossom, Edwardo and Bubbles, and Numbah 2 and Scotsman)).

STORY MODE:

The story mode could use some work. I was expecting character voice overs, not blossom yelling "I'm blossom!" with subtitles stating something completely different. Pretty much the only character that actually speaks outside of subtitles is the narrator, and he's no fun to listen to on some occasions. Sometimes you run into stuff that can be easily avoided, but you HAVE to do so to continue on.

PROS:

+4 player story mode co-op, were as Super Smash Bros. Brawl only has 2.

+Very funny dialogue.

+bubbles always makes the game more fun to play, because she mistakenly makes fun of almost everyone she comes across.

CONS:

-platforming is not a challenge here

-the Dexter's FPS challenge works terrible with the Wiimote+Numchuck/Wiimote alone controllers.

-Mini games within the level can get repetitive.

-the story mode is too short in my opinion, Even on hard, i managed to make it though the entire game without getting a game over once.

REPLAY VALUE:

6/10

Gets Boring alone after awhile, only appeals to fellow CN fan's.

OVERALL SCORE: 4/5

I love how Cartoon Network gave me my childhood back with a mix of my favor ate fighting game, if your looking for a inexpensive Wii Fighter, this is the game to buy for the holiday's!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Clone wars? Not the star wars version, December 10, 2011

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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion XL (Video Game)

This game is pretty much a straight clone of super smash bros. for those that arent familiar with smash bros. it is essentially a 2 d fighting game with the roster consisting of nintendo characters and arenas inspired by nintendo games. Now take that concept and replace nintendo with cartoon network and you have this game and thats not a bad thing, for me anyway. I have enjoyed smash bros and i think its very entertaining, i just prefer to play as samurai jack or johhny bravo instead of link or wario. Just my preference thats all. Now for this game itself, its surprisingly well done. You can tell the people working on the game definately had an appreciation of the source material. A generous roster of Characters that all have unique moves that suit them, tons of assist characters and a good amount of modes and unlockables keep this entertaining. My only real gripe with this game is the overall lack of polish. I own the 360 version and the graphics arent great wich is sad because the menus and some of the animation during certain story segments look crisp and vibrant in hd, then you start playing the game and i guess considering these are all cartoon characters i was hoping more for an interactive cartoon but instead its kind of bland. The sound could have been more punchy. It sometimes doesent feel like your hits connect because the sound is kind of weak. Lastly, more characters please. This isnt really a complaint because like i said before, the roster is pretty generous. 26 total playable characters and some of the them have costume variants that give the illusion of more characters such as the powerpuff girls can be replaced as the rowdy ruff boys. Its just bound to happen in this fan service type of game where you end up thinking, i wish this character or that character was in here. So to sum this review up, this is an enjoyable game. If you like smash bros and cartoon network you will like this. Fingers crossed for a sequel with more everything, mostly polish.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Xtra-Large Glass of Punch, November 20, 2011

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Tim Coogan "CN fan" (Millville, NJ) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion XL (Video Game)

Compared with this "enhanced" version of "Cartoon Network Punch Time Explosion", the 3DS version is merely a prototype !

It's basically the same game but with new stuff added to it. It's got the original 18 characters (Yes, even Captain Planet. Go get the Season 1 DVD set from Shout Factory for Gaia's sake !) plus 8 new playable characters. The first half of newbies are Johnny Bravo, Kevin Leven, Aku and Him, who have been "promoted" from their previous appearances as player assists. The other four are new to the scene: Hoss Delgado (spectral exterminator from "The Grim Adventures"), The Toiletnator (pathetic KND villain), The Scotsman (friend/rival of Samurai Jack) and even a young Ben Tennyson (from when he found the Omnitrix device for the very first time).

The story mode is pretty much the same, but up to four players can play together as well as take on each other in different battle modes like PTE Mode to see who can collect the most energy cubes and Drones Mode where you take on numerous enemies. Also, you can earn points to buy new levels (such as the KND Moon Base and Candy Island from "Flapjack"), the aforementioned characters, alternate costumes, and even 30 TV show clips starring your favorite characters ! Another thing, aside from using PTE super attacks and assist characters, you can also use the brand-new special "Synergy Attack" with certain player assists. There are many different combinations of characters and player assists, so you'd better grab that question-marked cube when it appears so you can try them all out !

Well, overall, I have to say it's good, but still, it's not good enough. No sign of any Ed boys no matter how much we demand it (ideas for alternate costumes for the Eds: Ed - Lothar the Viking, Edd - The Masked Mumbler, Eddy - Professor Scam) as does current hits like "Generator Rex", "Adventure Time with Finn and Jake", and "The Amazing World of Gumball". At least some of the voices have been improved and the animation in the gameplay and cutscenes have better flow.

No matter, it'll at least buy me some time until the next "Super Smash Bros." game or perhaps a Nicktoons-themed fighting game. Other games that will satiate my skills include "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy" - a similar brawler game - and "Cartoon Network Racing" featuring other characters from shows like "Cow and Chicken" and "Courage the Cowardly Dog". Still, it is kind of fun to see which character will prove who's the best.