The folks at Infogrames managed to strike cartoon gold when they made Wacky Races, a fun and entertaining racer that had the cartoon's sheer madness down pat and a couple of months later it was Bugs Bunny and co's turn to take to the racing field - twice in fact. One on the PlayStation where they raced in regular karts and the second on Dreamcast where they had their asses hauled to outer God Damn space.

It's a strange idea at first but it manages to all come together to form an entertaining racer that happens to be just as good as Wacky Races was with it's similar cel-shaded art style and an array of crazy gags to deal with such as falling pianos, exploding bombs and even pink elephants because why the hell not?

This title even made it's way onto the PS2 as well in 2002 (although unlike the Wacky Races port which only came out in Europe, this did see a North American release as well) and hot dang, the music in this is fan freaking tastic. They didn't need to go all out for a game featuring a bunch of Warner Bros characters racing for the finish line but this has some catchy as hell tunes that still sticks in my mind today.

It seemed when it came to Warner licensed titles, Infogrames really had it good especially on the racing front.

Reviewed on Jan 14, 2023


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All thanks should go to Beam Software for making this and Test Drive Le Mans. Maybe they weren't as focused on racers as Codemasters or Gremlin Interactive (the latter also swallowed up by a certain loathsome armadillo corp), but the ones they worked on turned out pretty good. It's annoying how Krome, the other big Australian studio, then bought Beam and the Melbourne House brand only to have them do less games and more support work before closing.

Looney Tunes had a surprisingly strong run of games around the turn of the millennium, between this, the 3D platformers, and oddities like Sheep Raider. Warner Bros. really isn't good at managing this brand over time, though, at least not outside TV.