Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem Review - Classic and Silly Fun

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Although Looney Tunes dates all the way back to 1930, there is still something hilarious about the classic cartoon series that had rabbits defeating hunters by dropping safes on their heads and wily coyotes drawing fake tunnels on the sides of mountains to deceive roadrunners. With characters as memorable as Bugs Bunny, Wile E. Coyote, Sylvester the Cat and Daffy Duck, there is a valid reason that Looney Tunes still captures the hearts of multiple generations of cartoon fans. Now imagine taking those characters and putting them into a video game. That game is the mobile title Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem, currently available on Android and iPhone.

Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem is an action RPG that lets players collect teams of characters from classic cartoons. Each character has its own strengths and weaknesses, along with some hilarious fighting abilities. For example, Bugs Bunny has a safe dropping skill, while Marvin the Martian has a raygun to shoot enemies with. The idea is to build a team of these classic characters, which are earned through gameplay, to take on other teams of cartoons to win items that help with leveling up and tuning up skills. Each "level" has a series of battles to complete, but players can also go up against other players in PvP to steal crates of goodies from them.

Battles are based on a classic turn-based system, but with each character's hilarious skills, they are a lot of fun to participate in, especially when deciding which character skills to attack with. There are exploding presents, anvils, ray guns and the standard clubbing someone over the head. There are also some characters that have healing abilities. Players immediately know if they have enough power to take down another team before entering into battle, and if they don't, they can spend their items to level up their team until it's ready. The system is very intuitive and doesn't take a lot of brain power to learn.