Looney Tunes Space Race : Sega Dream Cast Games

by Infogrames

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• ASIN: B0000568U4
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,971 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

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Looney Tunes: Space Race features eight all-time favorite characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Taz, Sylvester, Yosemite Sam, and Wile E. Coyote. The 12 tracks include shortcuts, jumps, and traps, and there are over 40 competitive events. Players can pummel opponents with gags like the portable hole, falling elephants, retractable boxing glove, and instant storm. Up to four players can race at a time.

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This is the game Looney Tunes Space Race . We stand by our products and offer a 60 day guarantee. If a game does not work within 60 days from the time you receive it we will gladly exchange it for you.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great game..............., December 14, 2000

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brian a kelley (valencia, ca United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Looney Tunes Space Race : Sega Dream Cast Games (Video Game)

Great graphics, but Its more into combat than racing. The music was the only problem I had with this game. But for this price I would say its a must buy and you don't have to to be a small kid to enjoy. Almost 5 stars!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Multiplayer game, December 12, 2000

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This review is from: Looney Tunes Space Race : Sega Dream Cast Games (Video Game)

For those who have played Mario Kart on the N64, then your in for a suprise. This game is better with many characters to choose and unlock. It's just an amazing 3D racing game with the authentic character voices. This is must have to play by yourself or in a party.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Another mediocre DC cart game . . ., June 30, 2002

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This review is from: Looney Tunes Space Race : Sega Dream Cast Games (Video Game)

On paper, this game looks outstanding: a good franchise, the "new" (at the time) cel shading techniqe to make the Looney
Tunes look even more in their element, and the willingness to take the LT cartoon cliches to the extreme, creating a living, breathing cartoon race with you in it.

Unfortunately, it falls a little flat in a number of areas. Control is consistent and acceptable, but the hover-scooters just don't do it for me. The tracks play like an extremely easy version of Wipeout. What was wrong with using karts? It's the control, which honestly might be a little TOO precise and TOO fast for its own good that makes the game seem monotonous. The easy tracks are far too easy and the rollercoaster tracks are all fairly similar in how they are played. For those of you who have played Crash Team Racing, you'll miss the variety, the jumps and mud bogs, the tight courses, the ones on ice, and the speedy ones with lots of obstacles.

Second, there are a TON of power ups, and the computer, as in most kart games, cheats like crazy. The power ups always provide the randomness to the gameplay, but in this particular game, the near contstant beatings you'll take make the game unbearable at times, constantly stopping and starting again. That said, winning is a fairly simple matter. Get a bunch of rocket boosts, sit back in the middle or back of the pack where you're somewhat protected, and in the final stretch, blast past the competition. Works most of the time, and is a perfect example of just how talent and skill are devalued by this game.

All this would be at least a little tolerable if the game held up to its promise of being an immersive Looney Tunes environment. True, the tracks will all look familiar to those of you who have watched enough Bugs Bunny cartoons (especially from the Chuck Jones era) to memorize the lines by heart, and true, the Acme powerups (straight out of a Roadrunner cartoon) are as cool and well done as any you'll see in any kart game, and yes, the characters are well animated, BUT, the game loses it's luster when, halfway through the first race, you've already heard all five of Daffy Duck's catch phrases. Woulda been nice if they would have given the characters, I dunno, maybe another twenty or so things to say AND if they wouldn't talk so much that you'll get tired of them and want to turn the sound down. Of course, their talking is usually in direct response to either using a power-up on someone else, or getting blown up yourself, which, as I mentioned earlier, happens about every ten seconds in some races.

I picked this came up ... used, and that's an acceptable price for it. Unfortunately, the DC will die without the cart game that it should have had. It's obvious a lot of work went into this one, and it's a shame that usability testing didn't make this game everything that it could have been.