Sound By the same token, there's a limited amount of audio expression available in this game. There's only so much you can do with a fifties-vintage house and a pair of established cartoon characters for a cast - House Trap does that and no more. The texture art in particular is quite bland, and there's nothing much in the way of polygonal invention to fill the corners of the mysterious pet-owner's house. The game moves quickly, and the animations are amusing re-creations of their 2D ancestors, but it still features very limited visuals. Graphics This looks like a Tom & Jerry cartoon, alright. Each mission does not introduce you to an entirely new area, but instead merely adds one more room onto the existing house, and as such you'll rapidly run out of new traps and such to brain your opponent with. It's like the slams reel on a BMX video: the same thing over and over again, and once you see it enough you realize that it wasn't even very funny the first time.
This is entertaining, and Warthog's handling of the control and game balance is sound, but like the cartoons it's inspired by, the appeal wears extremely quickly. You set traps, hope they work, and occasionally resort to some clumsy Power Stone-style brawling. Spy, and while a layer of depth has been added by the 3D graphics, allowing you limited movement on the Z-axis, the game is still essentially the same.
You see the house via the same side-scrolling split-screen view as in Spy Vs. If the indirect approach - setting up mousetraps, vacuums, falling bowling balls, and the like - doesn't appeal to you, though, you can always resort to the simpler expedient of braining the other guy with a shovel. Tom (the cat) and Jerry (the mouse) run around a house consisting of a finite number of rooms, set traps here and there, and hope the other guy blunders into some contraption that will flatten him or blow him up. Spy, but those who played the latter will find the former hauntingly familiar. Tom and Jerry may not be intentionally based on Spy Vs. The white and black spies would run around a building consisting of a finite number of rooms, set traps here and there, and hope the other guy blundered into some contraption that would flatten him or blow him up. Spy was based on the comic strip of the same name, taking its decades-long struggle from the pages of MAD magazine and making a game out of it. Oh, you don't remember that one? Well, big shock there. Gameplay Tom & Jerry In: House Trap is, essentially, the direct descendant of a very old NES game you might remember, Spy Vs. You can have essentially the same game for perhaps three dollars at your local Funcoland, and with cooler protagonists to boot. There's a very limited amount of fun to be had with House Trap, and not anywhere near enough to justify the expense. It's the bad ones that came true, though. While the bad omens were bad, the good omens were there to outweigh them.
#Buy spy vs spy ps2 license
Yes, it's a game based on a silly cartoon license that NewKidCo probably picked up for a song and a half, but I was initially surprised to find it based on what was once a solid gameplay concept, and I was even more surprised to pick the game up and see the Warthog logo on it, Warthog being the developers of Starlancer and Star Trek: Invasion. I had something approaching high hopes for Tom and Jerry.