Something tells me once they got to know each other, they'd hit it off perfectly. So we'd have Peter and Edmund Pevensie, Ben Tennyson, Dexter, Gary Goodspeed and Avocato living together. Cartoon Network is set to launch this MMO on Januanyone looking to see what the game is going to be like should head over to the official website and sign up for the final open beta preview on December 27.Six of Hearts/Roommates → If your favorite characters all lived together, how do you think they’d get along?

It's easy to get into, it's quirky, it's fun, and the story is simultaneously bizarre and more than a little charming while managing to contain an awful lot of nerd appeal. Overall, though, the Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall looks like it could turn out to be a great deal of fun for both kids and adults. Occasionally, invisible walls would show up where they shouldn't be, too, which proved to be rather irritating when the most obvious path to a destination turned out to be unavailable. The game could still use some polish, though, as there were areas that were too quiet because the music cycle would end and there were a few minutes of total silence. The game's cel-shaded look, combined with the rather original design choices, actually make the game ooze style, something that is more than a little surprising seeing as how FusionFall actually is played via a web browser: everything actually looks rather stunning when it's pumped up to a full-screen resolution on high graphic settings. Running around the world was actually a lot more fun than I expected because everything is actually so imaginatively designed. While the environments are actually pretty massive, it helps that players can use ziplines and jump pads to get around the world a bit faster. Items, experience, and cash are dropped in the usual way, but there isn't a massive variety of different goodies to collect, so a number of duplicates show up in your inventory pretty quickly. This way, players don't feel overwhelmed as they're introduced to the way the game works. Attacks themselves aren't turn-based, instead, they're based on mouse-clicks. Instead, combat occurs in one-on-one occurrences that usually won't start up until players actually throw the first punch. RPG elements like levels and increasingly-powerful weaponry/armor make up the core gameplay, but there aren't a variety of attacks or abilities to unlock at the the early levels. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to work on the other quests before the preview ended, but I was curious to see what being Mojojojo's henchman was like, too.įusionFall's mechanics are pretty simple, but solid.

By the time I finished up my multi-hour session with the game, I was working with Dexter to help discover why universe's heroes were disappearing, which proved to be a rather intriguing mystery. From that point on, they'll actually work with one of four mentors (Dexter, Mojojojo, Ben Tennyson, or one of the Eds) and help them work on extremely different quests. After aiding them, they fix the time machine and allow players to jump back in time to when the invasion began, before the cartoony world is devastated and looks like a particularly post-apocalyptic version of Cartoon Cartoons. The first few levels of the game require players to run around the world and help various Cartoon Network stars defeat their opponents or clear the land of major monsters that are making what remains of civilized life difficult. As a result, the intro to the game actually takes place in a future where the heroes have pretty much lost the war, and characters deal with grown-up cast members from the Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory, Kids Next Door, and Ben 10, amongst others. Players, however, create unique characters who are brought forward in time to the future by Dexter and wind up a little further than the mad genius intended thanks to his little sister fouling things up. Naturally, the heroes of the Cartoon Universe band together to combat the forces of Planet Fusion in over-the-top and mildly-whacky ways. The idea behind the game is that a celestial blob of green goo is traveling through space that's gobbling up planets as it jets along the cosmos. This past Friday, Cartoon Network held an open beta preview However, Cartoon Network is actually making a serious effort to actually create a title that will meet those various requirements, and after spending some time with Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall, it seems safe to say that the company has a viable chance of producing an MMO capable of charming players both young and old. MMORPGs that are not only kid-friendly but of high quality are pretty much impossible to find, especially ones that also hold appeal for older audiences as well. Quality kid-friendly games are rather elusive creatures, as are quality MMORPGs.

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