Enter the Wild and Wacky World of Cel Damage and Welcome to you all. Where can I start? Well the question is do you want to play a Cel Shaded cartoon game or participate in a Cel Shaded cartoon game? Well with the wild and wacky game Cel Damage you feel immersed in the cartoon rather than simply like you are playing a cartoon. Cel Damage from the offset is a vehicular combat gone completely made, the developers over at Pseudo Interactive have really got some loose nails up there where most of us have things locked down so tight.

Initially Cel Damage is just a little frustrating as the pace of the game is shear madness, The Fast and the Furious movie has nothing on the hectic pace set in Cel Damage, At times it is simply impossible for your brain to actually calculate what is actually happening on screen, Don’t fear though you soon adapt to the crazy pace of the action and battle commences.

Cel Damage has 12 interactive environments with a host of wild weapons, which include giant boxing gloves (my favourite weapon) and baseball bats, at their disposal. A stylish Cel Shaded look and revolutionary "stretch and squish" physics engine almost makes it seem as if all the wild action is taking place in an actual cartoon episode rather than a game. This game features some amazing animation and when you actually consider that this is in a game where anything “And yes I mean anything” can happen and at 700 miles per hour you really do appreciate just how amazing not only the Xbox Console is but how good Cel Damage the game is.

Turn that corner and a Crazy competitor wielding an Axe gracefully chops you in half, jump the river as a spear impales you on the wall these are just some of the crazy moments, which fill Cel Damage from start to finish. This is simply a truly amazing game. Cel Damage features 4 different themed locations which the action takes place in they are Space, Jungle, Desert, Transylvania and 3 game modes: Smack Attack, Battle Race and finally Flag Rally (my personal favourite) and up to 10 characters to choose from (4 hidden) add in to this mix 34 wild and completely over the top weapons mix it all up in a blender and poor Cel Damage mayhem.

Initially only Smack Attack and Battle race are open with 1 location from each of the 4 themed locations available (if you want to know how to open the rest without any effort and get all characters head over to our cheat area) or win 4 events and open up Flag Rally.

Smack Attack

In Smack attack the idea is as it implies Smack and Attack, Ok still means nothing well basically Smack Attack is a deathmatch challenge, Smack, Hack, chop, punch just about any conceivable attack method the hell out of your competitors first to reach the goal of 500 points is the winner. “Sounds Simple?” “Well it’s not, this is shear mayhem, from start to finish and each for their own!!”

Battle Race

Battle Race picks up the furious action in a gate rally race, the general idea is to make through 20 gates before any of the other racers, well again “Sounds Easy” and again “No, No, No it’s not” Whilst you think the idea is simply to race through the gates you fellow competitors have other ideas as you race towards the next gate Smack those huge boxing gloves smash you off course and you go from 1st to 7th in a blink of an eye. This is fast, this is Crazy, this is Cel damage and each character wants to win!!!

Capture the Flag

Capture the flag, agggggghhhhh if only it was that simple, but as with anything in Cel Damage nothing is simple. In Cel Damage even the flags are alive and they don’t want to be caught “Oh no, no, no” these crazy flags have feet and when they see you come hurtling towards them there off, the little buggers run for there life and you need to get 4 of them to win!!! As with Smack Attack and battle Race this is all at a looney pace and everyone wants to win. If chopping you down the middle with an Axe big enough to chop a tree the size of Everest aids them in their quest they chop!

With all this wild and wacky action delivered by Cel Damage what can we say Graphically Cel Damage is truly amazing, look closely at the level of detail at all times, the superb and fluid animation throughout this is an area of Cel Damage which a bad word cannot be said about, The Controls well again nothing could ever be simpler than the controls which feature within Cel Damage, Simply Right Trigger to Accelerate, Left Trigger to brake and reverse, left analogue stick to steer and A to attack what could ever be simpler.

All this good, good, good there must be a bad? Well ok so with only 3 main game modes and 4 themes for the environment the game is a little repetitive, and similar no matter what mode you attempt to compete in. That said this is not a bad, bad thing just more of a give me more moan, and as this title is an initial launch title for the Xbox too we must applaud Pseudo Interactive and EA for what is a truly wild and wacky world where there are no rules apart from the fastest and strongest survive!!!