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Demented and Twistedly Fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: October 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First of all, this is a completeley original game. Don't be fooled by it's dark and deranged outer shell, because Whiplash is a fun and inovative platforming/action game. The story goes like this. There is a evil, huge mega corporation that use animals to test new human products. It just so happens that Spanxs the weasel,( who was experimented on with electricity, ) and Redford the rabbit ( who was experimented on with beauty products, ) are chained together and are about to become fused together for the rest of thier lives. Yet they escape the grap of the scientists, and must elude capture at all costs, as well as free all of the other test animals. The only catch? They're chained together.
It does sound wierd, but it is completley addictive and fun. You use Redford, who is indestructable because of a hairspray test that gave him an impeneterable shield, as a whip and can give him many funny and useful powerups. These include on that inflates, another that lets him electrify gaurds and other enimies, plus at least a dozen more. Or you can simply whip him about. The graphics, while not the best, are very unique and have a griddy/saturday morning cartoon look about them-not bad at all, and they stay at a very constant framerate. The sound is great, with a mix of bizzare sound effects and catchy music. The game is however not as long as it could have been, roughly about ten to fifteen hours depending on how good you are at it, but nevertheless, it is still well worth the forty dollars. I recommend Whiplash to everyone, so don't miss this clever and original game when it comes out the seventh!

Twisted game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is so bizarre! I got it because I liked the cover, but I have to say it's the funniest game I've played in a long time... The writing and story are great, the gameplay is addictive and fun, the object of the game is to break stuff and bring down the man! I wish I could give half points, because it looks like the game could have used some polish, but it's still really fun and well worth forty bucks.

Fun and funny, interesting play

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm not much for platform games, but Whiplash definitely grabbed my attention. Most games try to be funny, but fall flat. This game is extremely rare in the humor department and had me laughing over and over again! Although the game can be quite difficult in some areas, but then again, it is definitely keeping the spirt of 'run jump and die' style games, and you will be doing A LOT of that in the later levels. Thankfully, there are plenty of free lives to find and you have ample oppertunities to get through an area before you run out of all your lives.

The artwork is definitely on the 'cartoony' side of things which is why I didn't give this game 5 stars. It's very colorful, but the textures are a little flat, but the level design makes up for a lot of that. Plus being able to destroy practically everything you see is tons of fun, and a great way to vent some anger!

This is definitely a game for anyone of any age who likes a good challenging platform game. Although younger folks might not understand some of the humorous banter, I'm sure they will get a chuckle out of all the other stuff they can catch and the weasel is just too darn funny even tho he never says a word!

incredible game - couldn't stop playing...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Whiplash takes the best parts of the Platform genre and layers in some really clever new twists. Combine that with some of the coolest characters and genuinely funny story and you've got a winner!

Great! Funny! Bizzare!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: December 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

You have to get this game! This game is really funny and fun to play! you play with a crazy weasel who uses a rabit as his weapon. its really fun and will keep you entertained for hours and hours.

I quote this game in my daily speech it's so hilarious.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I must start by saying that Whiplash's humor may completely leave some people clueless. Think in the style of Space Ghost/ATHF/Sea Lab/Animaniacs/Spike & Mike stuff. Some of the jokes are incredibly random, but I love that stuff. Me and my buddies grab some food and take turns playing through the game looking for the next cutscene or humorous event. Gameplay is entertaining too, it really grabs the child in me that wants to create chaos by swinging an unbreakable bunny at everything. My buddies leave to work and school or wherever, and when they come back they're disappointed that I've played hours into the game without them. So I'm constantly playing the game over, or watching it again, and it's just as funny if not funnier the second time around. PEANUT BUTTER! lol

"A weasal ate my mother!" "Weasals eat everyones mother's."

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

"Omigod! It's the guy from the movie trailers!" One of the many quotes that are in Whiplash that made me crack up. This twisted platformer puts you in the place of Spanx, a Weasel that got electrical testing, and Redmond, a rabbit with hairspray that made him indestructable. The two are chained together and Spanx gets to whip Redmond around. You'll crack up in the first five minutes with Redmond griping about stuff (getting whipped around by a crazed weasal isn't so bad),hamster cannons,chimps that beat up scientest,and obese guards that "Remember the Aleemo". And thats just the first level! For fans of Earthworm Jim, and everyone else!

CUTE!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is too cute for words! On some sites they say that this game is not for everyone and is offensive, but I think it's GREAT that there is a game out where animal test subjects not only escape, but are on a mission to free all the animals and put the company out of business! Freeing the animals there, from hamsters to monkeys to eels is part of each mission. Along the way, you beat up evil humans and break stuff. When you break stuff, it calculates the damage you're causing the company! The weasel, Spanx is adorable and so is Redmond the bunny. Spanx uses Redmond as a weapon because they are chained together, but Redmond doesn't get hurt(cartoon style). Instead of losing a life, you get "caught". The characters are funny and they even mention PETA. The game itself is platform and there are many puzzles to figure out. I have only had it(I rented it) for a day and a half and I love it. I'm going to buy it and the strategy guide! The box really should have better cover art, something cuter, colorful and clean. It gives you the wrong impression of the game. I haven't loved anything this much since Spyro!
BUY THIS GAME and get out there and start attacking those evil humans. This isn't a kid's game, but with supervision, definitly sends the right message to them!
I hope they make a sequel, but how can they? Hmmm...

Whiplash......

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As much as I love Platformers, I really hate it when a new one comes along. The reason why is because I expect something new from it than just rehashed gameplay that I've played a hundred times before in other games. I like to see games push the envelope, be daring, and not so politically correct all the time because games that push the envelope usually become the classics we all know and love. Oftentimes(though), especially where Platformers are concerned, the ones you'd love to see sequels to just don't get made(like, for example, one of my favorites:"Jersey Devil") and the ones you could care less about have a gazillion of them made.
Enter Whiplash....a Platformer that, while not exactly pushing the envelope per se, is more politically incorrect than any other game I've known. Chances are, we'll never see a sequel to it on account of that one reason & that would be a shame because, even though it is your basic Platformer, it has alot of potential and is alot of fun to play. Despite what some professional reviews might say about it being offensive, I found nothing offensive at all about it. Being politically incorrect doesn't necessarily make it offensive, you know? You play as Spanx and Redmond...a weasel and a bunny(natural enemies in the wild) that must escape Genron(a corporation that conducts horrific tests on cute, fluffy animals) and that is where the fun begins. Like Tak in Tak and the Power of Juju, Spanx and Redmond are two characters in the game that you can't help but like. If I could find anything wrong about the game, it'd be that characters models in the game doesn't have very high polygon counts. Seeing what the Playstation 2 can do graphically, I know they coulda' did better. Course, you'll be having too much fun to notice, really.
Indeed, Whiplash may be just your basic Platformer. There's definitely room for improvement, though, if and when we do see a sequel. I, for one, hope I'm wrong and we do see one. Whiplash( like Tak) is definitely cool.

Funny, but FULL of weird glitches and problems

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: January 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

You know, I really think that all the professional reviewers of this game couldn't have gotten more than a quarter of the way through it, or they wouldn't have given it such favorable reviews. (From what I can tell, on average, it got about 4 stars out of 5, amongst professional reviewers outside amazon.com).

In the early stages of the game, it is both very fun and very funny. Is the humor offensive? No. But it's very politically-charged and anti-corporate. It's funny to see such a strong anti-corporate message in a game developed for a SONY game system (and who makes video games anyway? Not the government!)...but hey, the anti-corporate thing sells to college kids.

I played this game to within ten minutes of the end, at which point I ran into such a severe glitch that I am unable to finish the game! I'm 10 hours into it, and I literally have less than a half an hour to go, and I have to abandon it and start the game over! Why? A cutscene that was supposed to be activated once I completed an objective never happened, and the next event was never triggered, and no matter what I do I can't GET it to trigger, and there we are. But it's typical of this game. If you play this, you'll find yourself falling through solid floors into blue nothingness, killing enemies and having parts of them (with sound effects) floating in mid-air, and getting stuck inside boxes that are supposed to be solid! And you know how you can charge up the bunny with different things? Once, I charged the bunny up with electricity, and then I got on an elevator...and the electricity remained on the ground floor when the elevator went up, but the bunny continued to bounce around as if he were electrified. I can't say it enough, this thing is chock full of TERRIBLE BUGS.

Also, you would need a doctorate in cartography to make any use of the in-game maps. It's ridiculously difficult to see where you are in relation to where you're trying to go, and panning and zooming to different parts of the maps is badly controlled and awkward. You will CONSTANTLY find yourself trying to complete objectives with no idea where you need to go or what you need to do. Towards the end of the game, you have to backtrack through EVERYWHERE you have been so far without any guidance as to what you should be doing.

I was really looking forward to this game before I got it. I thought it would be funny and different. What I got was a glitchy platformer that is so frustrating to play that it makes you want to throw your ps2 out the window, and which contains a STUPID political message. Rent, do not buy.

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