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Futurama
Developer(s)	Unique Development Studios
Publisher(s)	VU Games / Fox Interactive
Platform(s)	PlayStation 2 Xbox
Release date	August 12, 2003
Genre(s)	Platform
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	ESRB: T OFLC: G8+ PEGI: 12+
Media	DVD
Input methods	Gamepad

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Storyline

Mom buys Planet Express for sinister reasons and the team of Fry, Bender, Leela, and Zoidberg must thwart her evil plot to take over the universe. Philip J. Fry is the protagonist of the animated television series Futurama and is voiced by Billy West. ... Bender, full name Bender Bending Rodríguez or designated Bending Unit 22, is a fictional robot character in the animated television series Futurama. ... Turanga Leela (born A.D. 2975) is a fictional primary character in the animated television series Futurama. ... Dr. John Zoidberg is a fictional character in the television series Futurama. ...

After realizing the Planet Express delivery company has been losing money for blatantly obvious reasons (such as using a giant spaceship to hand-deliver single packages and the crew never actually collecting money for deliveries), Professor Hubert Farnsworth sells the company to Mom. With her purchase of Planet Express, Mom now owns over 50% of the planet Earth, and becomes its supreme ruler, taking all humans for slaves and instituting a curfew with 'hoverbot death troopers' patrolling the streets. Fry, Leela, Bender and Farnsworth attempt to escape Earth but the ship is inexplicably (for now) broken and scorched so whilst the others repair the ship, Fry is sent to find a hammer. However, he is killed when the two-ton pile of steel and junk (the professor set this up to test an invention) the hammer was supporting falls on him. He is brought back to life by the Professor's "Re-Animator" and finds all the Professor's tools to fix the ship. Alas, the Professor couldn't fix the dark matter engine so Fry must go to the pawn shop and reclaim the back-up engine. Once he does so they escape Earth with the Re-Animator and the gun the professor pawned the back-up engine for.

Mom's plan is bigger than the mere conquest of Earth; she plans to turn the planet Earth into a gigantic Warship to conquer the universe. However, in order to move the entire planet off its orbit, she requires a large Dark Matter engine, that only Professor Hubert Farnsworth knows how to build. She captures the Planet Express Ship in a tractor beam from a scrapyard on a desert asteroid. Bender escapes with the Re-Animator and shuts down the tractor beam. Mom's ship (in the shape of Mom's head) captures the Planet Express Ship in its mouth and Mom and her sons board the Planet Express ship. They cut off the Professor's head and put it in a jar before hurling the Planet Express Ship into the sun.

In a bizarre twist, the sun actually has a habitable surface, where the Sun People live in fear of the Mighty Sun God that has killed much of the star's population and created an undead army out of their bones. Leela defeats him, in exchange for Dark Matter to fuel up the ship, and the crew heads to the planet Bogad (Dagobah spelled backwards minus two letters), home of Professor Farnsworth's mentor Adoy (Yoda spelled backwards), presumed to be the only person capable of hatching a plan to solve the situation. As the crew journeys to Bogad, Mom succeeds in powering up the Earth's Dark Matter engine and proceeds to destroy nearby planets. Dagobah is both a planet and the system in which it resides, in the fictional Star Wars universe. ... Yoda is a fictional character from the Star Wars universe, who appears in all of the franchises films except for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. ...

On Bogad, the crew meets Adoy, who reveals he's invented a time machine capable of sending them back in time and stop Mom before she became unstoppable. The ship and crew travel into the past but arrive completely out of control, crashing the broken, scorched ship inside the Planet Express hangar with not much time left to prevent the original sale of Planet Express. They then leave in their original ship, thus explaining how the broken ship got broken in the first place.

The crew arrives at Mom's Company just in time to prevent the sale, however Mom forces them to fight the robot Destructor from "Raging Bender". The crew manages to defeat him, but then they are crushed and killed by the falling robot. Professor Hubert Farnsworth has a face-off with Mom and then returns to Planet Express to give his employees some good news. The cutscene shown at the end is actually the first cutscene from the beginning. The game ends the way it began, returning to Level 1 and completing the circle in the timeline (creating an infinite loop). Raging Bender is episode 8 in season 2 of Futurama. ...

Characters

While the game remains generally faithful to the series, many characters are omitted altogether. Here is a list of the characters that appear.

Philip J. Fry: Playable character, appears in a number of cutscenes. Philip J. Fry is the protagonist of the animated television series Futurama and is voiced by Billy West. ...

Turanga Leela: Playable character, appears in a number of cutscenes Turanga Leela (born A.D. 2975) is a fictional primary character in the animated television series Futurama. ...

Bender B. Rodriguez: Playable character, appears in a number of cutscenes

Professor Hubert J Farnsworth: Non-playable character, appears in a number of cutscenes Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth is a fictional character appearing in the animated television series Futurama, voiced by Billy West. ...

Dr John Zoidberg: Playable character, appears in three cutscenes Dr. John Zoidberg is a fictional character in the television series Futurama. ...

Nibbler: Serves as a collectable. Lord Nibbler is a fictional character from the animated television series Futurama. ...

Hermes Conrad: Non-playable character, seen in his office during the first level with a brain slug feasting on his brains, a reference to Raging Bender but has no lines. His locker can also be seen. Hermes Conrad is a character in the Futurama animated series. ... Raging Bender is episode 8 in season 2 of Futurama. ...

Amy Wong: Doesn't appear, locker can be seen in the first level. Amy Wong (born August 4, 2980 [1]) is a fictional character, one of the main characters from the FOX television animated series Futurama. ...

Zapp Brannigan: Doesn't technically appear but can be seen advertising the army on posters. Major General Webelo Zapp Brannigan is a fictional character in the television series Futurama. ...

Mom: Non-playable character, main antagonist. Appears in a number of cutscenes. Mom in her first appearance, wearing her fatsuit and kindly public persona Mom is a fictional character and recurring antagonist on the animated series Futurama, voiced by Tress MacNeille. ...

Walt, Larry and Ignar: Appear in many cutscenes, serve as bosses throughout the Bender missions.

Sal: Appears in a cutscene in which he assists Mom in taking over the universe.

Game development

Development on the game started before the series' cancellation,^[1] but the game wasn't released until after the last episode had already been shown. Thus, the game has been known as a "lost episode" of sorts since it includes 28 minutes^[2] of new animation.^[3]

Many of the crew from the Futurama series worked on the game. Matt Groening served as Executive game developer and David X. Cohen directed the voice actors. These voice actors were the original actors from the series: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche, and David Herman. Also adding to the authenticity of the game was the original music composition provided by Christopher Tyng who also composed the music in the series and Futurama scriptwriter and producer J. Stewart Burns who scripted an original storyline for the plot. Indeed, the music used in the end credits was later used in the intro for the straight-to-DVD film Futurama: Bender's Big Score. Matthew Abram Groening is an American cartoonist (Life in Hell) and the Emmy Award-winning creator of the animated series, The Simpsons and Futurama. ... David X. Cohen (born 1966), born David Samuel Cohen, is an American television writer. ... Billy West (born William Richard West on April 16, 1952 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American voice actor, known for roles on shows such as The Ren and Stimpy Show and Futurama. ... Katey Sagal (born Catherine Louise Sagal on January 19, 1954)[1] is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress, singer, and writer, best known for her roles in Futurama, 8 Simple Rules, and Married. ... John William DiMaggio (born September 4, 1968) is an American voice actor. ... Tress MacNeille (born June 20, 1951) is an American voice actress best known for providing various voices on the animated television shows The Simpsons, Futurama, and Animaniacs. ... Maurice LaMarche (born March 30, 1958) is a Canadian voice actor and former stand up comedian. ... This article is about the actor and comedian. ... Christopher Tyng is an American composer. ... J. Stewart Burns is a writer and producer for The Simpsons. ...

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Reception

Gameplay was generally considered lackluster, though cutscenes were described in Wired as "side-splitting".^[4] The cutscenes, along with some in-game footage, were included as a bonus feature on the direct-to-DVD movie, Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs.^[5] A cut scene or cutscene (sometimes also referred to as a cinematic) is a sequence in a video game over which the player has no control. ... Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993. ...

References

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External links

• Futurama the game official Website
• IGN: PS2 and Xbox
• Game Rankings: PS2 and Xbox
• Metacritic Review Aggregation
• Futurama at MobyGames
• Sound clips from the game at Futurama Madhouse
• Futurama at Gamespot.com