Tom and Jerry in War of the Whiskers FAQ
Copyright 2003 - Glomerate
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By : Glomerate
E-mail :
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Website :
http://glomerate.8m.com
Last Updated : December 19th, 2003
Version : .90 (Just needs Environments and all Unlockables posted)
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Contents
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I. Introduction
II. The Basics
A. The Main Menu
B. The Game Screen
C. The Controls
D. The Berserk Ability
E. Pick-ups
III. Characters (and their Pros and Cons)
IV. Environments (and their Weapons, Damage Zones and Strategies) !CS!
V. Walkthrough (and Unlockables)
VI. Defeating and Controlling the Bosses (understanding their complexity)
VII. Other Unlockables (Costumes and Weapons? Oh My!)
VIII. Don't forgets... (Strategizing to win)
IX. Cheats (...You Dirty Cheater)
X. Credits (links and thanks)
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I. Introduction
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Welcome to the Tom and Jerry in War of the Whiskers - FAQ. This Tom and Jerry
game (WotW) is all about simulating a fight in a real Tom and Jerry cartoon
which, in my opinion, it does a good job of. However, I would reccomend that
you like cartoons in the first place before trying this game. I would also
reccomend this game for parents to get for their kids. It's very entertaining
and very much worth the little money being asked for it considering that it's
a budget title. This game is also not the first of it's kind to come out. On
the Nintendo 64 the same two companies, New Kid Co and Vis Entertainment
released Tom and Jerry: Fists of Furry. WotW, as far as I'm concerned, is the
sequel to Fists of Furry.
In this FAQ I'll go over the basics of playing the game and and then lead you
into the unlockables and even give you tips on how to watch your character
better. So please, enjoy and if you feel like I'm missing anything, e-mail me
about it.
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II. The Basics
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A. The Main Menu
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Challenge - This type of play is the single player mode of WotW. This mode of
play contains five battles, four with regular characters and one
with a boss character. This mode is also used to unlock new characters to play
as in the game.
Versus - This is a mode where you play one by one matches against either a
friend or a computer opponent.
Tag Versus - This is just like a normal match except there are now teams!
Playing against either a computer team or a friend team, each each team has
two characters. A member of a team can be tagged in at any time or the other
member can just take over when their teammate runs out of energy. When a
character is tagged out, he will recover his energy slowly before he is
tagged back in.
Tag Team - The exact same thing above, except you can now play the tag game
with a friend on your team instead of a computer teammate.
Options - The options menu has a sub-menu of even more options to tinker
with:
Fight Settings - In this menu you can pick how many rounds you'd like
in a battle, the length of each round, the difficulty of the game and
whether you want vibration on or off on your controller.
Save Game - This will save your game, of course. The game usually
automatically saves your progress, but it's good to make sure. (Note:
WotW only uses up 73kb of your memory card for saves. That's
practically peanuts as far as saving goes on the PS2!)
Video - Enables a special Widescreen view for Widescreen Televisions.
Audio - Here you can adjust the volume of the music, sound effects or
just turn them off.
Credits - Here you can view the credits of the game.
Cheats Menu - This will show a special screen where you can put cheats
into the game to help you out. (Note: The manual talks about cheats to
prematurely unlock characters and environments, but only two codes are
known and they are covered below in the cheats section.)
B. The Game Screen
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The screen has a lot of things that are no brainers, but other things you may
want to look into.
Health Bar - This is your energy. Once it runs out, you're out for the count.
Beserk Bar - Your Berserk bar builds up your characters Berserk power (learn
more below) so that when you blow your top and go Berserk, you do double the
damage you usually do.
Character Faces - These show who is who in the battle. Player one is on the
left while player two or the computer is on the right.
Timer - The timer is what keeps the match going and once it reaches zero, the
match is over, assuming off course no one has lost all of their energy yet.
If the timer runs out and both characters are still alive, the one with the
most energy will be declard the winner.
Ribbon - If you are playing 3 or 5 round battles and you win a match, then a
ribbon will show up below your characters Berserk bar showing you have one
win under your belt.
C. The Controls
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All of these controls work for the characters in WotW except for the Boss
Characters and that is covered further below in the FAQ.
Triangle - Punch
Swings Weapon (If Weapon is held)
Throws Projectile Weapon (If Weapon is held)
Charges Weapon Power (If Weapon is held)
Shoves Weapon (If nearby)
Throws opponent in the air (If held)
Cancels Menu Selection
Square - Kick
Swings Weapon (If Weapon is held)
Throws Projectile Weapon (If Weapon is held)
Shoves Weapon (Is Weapon or pro is nearby)
Throws opponent along the ground (If held)
X - Jump
A Double jump can also be done if you hit X twice in a row.
You can also punch or kick in the air, but only during a double
jump.
Selects Menu Option
Circle - Picks up weapons (If nearby)
Drops weapons (If held)
Catch incoming projectile (If timed right)
Picks up opponent (If stunned)
L2 + R2 - Taunts your opponent to fill up Berserk bar (Read more below)
Uses Berserk ability (Read more below)
L1 - Tags in a Tag battle.
R1 - Block
Start - Pauses the game
D. The Berserk Ability
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Berserk ability is the point in the game where your character goes completely
bonkers, can't take anymore and will blow his top. The Berserk ability can be
acheived when the Berserk bar reaches its maximum. ou will then hear the
announcer say "Berserk Ready!" and at this moment you may either use it or
save it. Once you use it, your character turns bright red and does double the
damage he used to (and yes that includes with weapons).
E. Pick-ups
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Generally there are four different pick-up's; Props, Weapons, Health and the
question mark power-up.
Props and Weapons - Props are piece of the current environment that you're in
that you can pick up, kick, punch or throw at opponents. Weapons are the same
things as props except that they do more damage. these also include the hand
weapons that you can swing. All Weapons and props can be picked-up by any
character, regardless of size. Every enviroment has different weapons that
you must learn how to use. Also, not all of the projectile weapons are one
time specials either. Some will let you throw up to three of them! You can
also charge up a weapon for a maximum hit that takes away as much health from
an opponent as a weapon can. To do this, hold the punch button down until it
fills the bar. You can also release your hit before it reaches the maximum
and it will still do more damage then normal.
Health - Health is represented as little med bags that you can pick up and they
add on to your current health bar. You can get these when you've dealt damage
to your opponent, but get them quick!
Question Marks - The question mark power-ups can be one one of two things. One
you can get the Forcefield which is a shield that prevents all damage or two
you can get the poison gas that slowly drains your life away. When you have
the poison gas, you can pass it back and forth with your opponent by hitting
each other. (Note: The poison gas is less common than the forcefield.)
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III. Characters (and their Pros and Cons) - In Order of Appearance
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Just so everyone knows, Tom and Jerry are the only two characters that are
controllable when you begin the game. If you'd like to find out how to unlock
the rest of the characters, scroll down to the "Walkthrough (and Unlockables)"
section. It should also be known that the lightweight characters can have their
Berserk ability ready more often than any character in the game. So they may
not be very powerful, but then they make up for it in Berserk mode.
Lightweight is then followed by middleweight and then heavyweight.(Note: By
contrast and compare through strength and speed it seems that the Eagle is the
best.)
Tom
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The bully of the famous mouse Jerry is at it again, still trying to
prove that once and for all he can catch that mouse (highly unlikely).
Pros and Cons - Tom has average speed and strength, he is a middleweight and
is a great starter character.
Jerry
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Is he a mouse that is forever plagued with the torture of being chased by a
very unskilled cat? or is he just a very skilled mouse? You be the judge.
Pros and Cons - Jerry is very fast but not very strong, he is a lightweight
and is a great starter character.
Spike
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The bully of Tom and an all the time good father to Tyke. Spike always sides
with jerry because he feels bad for the little guys, which is also the case
with his puppy son Tyke.
Pros and Cons - Spike is very powerful but very slow, he is a heavyweight
and is good for people looking for a more beefy character.
Tyke
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The always picked on lovable son of Spike.
Pros and Cons - Jerry is fast and decently strong, he is in between a
lightweight and a middleweight.
Nibbles
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Jerry's little cousin who just happens to be hated by Tom as much as Jerry.
He also sports a nice little diaper.
Pros and Cons - Nibbles is very fast but not very strong, he is a lightweight
and enjoys cheese.
Butch
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The worthy adversary alley cat of Tom. I don't think Tom even hates Jerry as
much as he does the competition he has in Butch.
Pros and Cons - Butch has average speed and strength, he is a middleweight and
is a character to pick if you like him better than Tom.
Duckling
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That lovable, yet sometimes very annoying duck. Protected all the time by
Jerry and Spike in the series, I'm suprised he can hold his own in this game!
Pros and Cons - Duckling is very fast but not very strong, he is a lightweight
and uses his wings when he double jumps.
Lion
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The Lion from the Zoo episode of Tom and Jerry makes his appearance in WotW.
Even though he's a cool addition to the line-up, he is the character that
looks least himself.
Pros and Cons - Lion is very powerful but very slow, he is a heavyweight
and is good for people looking for one other than spike.
Eagle
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The Eagle who has had a few fights with Tom in the past is back for more.
Pros and Cons - The Eagle is in between a middleweight and a heavyweight and
can really kick some tail.
Robot Cat (Boss)
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The infamous cat from the space and mad scientist spisodes of Tom and Jerry.
Pros and Cons - Robot Cat is harder to control than the other characters
and is only reccomended to advanced players. (Read more in the Bosses section
below)
Monster Jerry (Boss)
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The crazy Dr. Jeckel/Mr. Hyde version of Jerry from another scientist episode.
Pros and Cons - Monster Jerry is harder to control than the other characters
and is only reccomended to advanced players. (Read more in the Bosses section
below)
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IV. Environments (and their Weapons, Damage Zones and Strategies)
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!Coming Soon!
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V. Walkthrough (and Unlockables) - In Order of Appearance
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Each sequence of environments that makes-up a characters game contains five
environment battles. four regular environment battles with regular characters
and one boss environment battle with, of course, a boss. Environments are
represented below with the letter E, then a number and then the environment
you'll be in. In example, Tom's first battle is with Jerry in the PAWS
environment, so it will be represented like this: E1 - PAWS. The Opponent
you're facing with also be represented with an O, then a number and then the
Opponent you're facing. So in Tom's case it'll say, O1 - Jerry. This makes it
a lot easier to read down the line. Also, remember that you can still unlock
all of the characters in the game regardless of the difficulty you're on. You
can also set the rounds to one instead of 3 if you're really in a hurry to
make all the characters selectable for multiplayer.
Tom - Unlocks Spike
E1 - PAWS
O1 - Jerry
E2 - Snow Fight
O2 - Spike
E3 - That Sinking Feline
O3 - Tyke
E4 - Ciao Meow
O4 - Nibbles
E5 - FrankenMouse
O5 - Monster Jerry (Boss)
Jerry - Unlocks Tyke
E1 - A Fridge Too Far
O1 - Tom
E2 - Scrap Yard Scrape Up
O2 - Spike
E3 - Ciao Meow
O3 - Duckling
E4 - PAWS
O4 - Butch
E5 - FrankenMouse
O5 - Robot Cat (Boss)
Spike - Unlocks Nibbles
E1 - Ciao Meow
O1 - Tom
E2 - Snow Fight
O2 - Nibbles
E3 - A Fridge Too Far
O3 - Duckling
E4 - Haunted Mouse
O4 - Jerry
E5 - FrankenMouse
O5 - Robot Cat (Boss)
Tyke - Unlocks Butch
E1 - Snow Fight
O1 - Eagle
E2 - That Sinking Feline
O2 - Tom
E3 - A Fridge Too Far
O3 - Butch
E4 - Haunted Mouse
O4 - Jerry
E5 - FrankenMouse
O5 - Robot Cat (Boss)
Nibbles - Unlocks Duckling
E1 - Snow Fight
O1 - Eagle
E2 - That Sinking Feline
O2 - Tom
E3 - A Fridge Too Far
O3 - Butch
E4 - Haunted Mouse
O4 - Jerry
E5 - FrankenMouse
O5 - Robot Cat (Boss)
Butch - Unlocks Lion
E1 - Scrap Yard Scrape Up
O1 - Tom
E2 - Luncheons and Dragons
O2 - Nibbles
E3 - Unfurgiven
O3 - Lion
E4 - Towering Infurno
O4 - Jerry
E5 - FrankenMouse
O5 - Monster Jerry (Boss)
Duckling - Unlocks Eagle
E1 - Unfurgiven
O1 - Tom
E2 - Haunted Mouse
O2 - Eagle
E3 - That Sinking Feeling
O3 - Tyke
E4 - Luncheons and Dragons
O4 - Spike
E5 - FrankenMouse
O5 - Robot Cat (Boss)
Lion - Unlocks Robot Cat (Multiplayer Only)
E1 - That Sinking Feline
O1 - Tom
E2 - Unfurgiven
O2 - Nibbles
E3 - PAWS
O3 - Jerry
E4 - Luncheons and Dragons
O4 - Spike
E5 - FrankenMouse
O5 - Monster Jerry (Boss)
Eagle - Unlocks Monster Jerry (Multiplayer Only)
E1 - Snow Fight
O1 - Jerry
E2 - Towering Infurno
O2 - Nibbles
E3 - Scrap Yard Scrape Up
O3 - Duckling
E4 - Unfurgiven
O4 - Tom
E5 - FrankenMouse
O5 - Monster Jerry (Boss)
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VI. Defeating and Controlling the Bosses (understanding their complexity)
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Defeating:
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Since the bosses are the only two characters in the game that are different
from the rest (as far as control), here are a few strategies for each boss so
you can defeat them.
Robot Cat - Robot Cat is the most different character in the game, he is the
only character that plays the ol' cat and mouse game with you. When he starts
to chase you, just run away and try to get away as fast as you can. He will
then start to throw fire balls at you (usually three and very easy to avoid,
just keep moving).Once you jump up some where high, he will start to do a
flame spin move. When he does this, grab the nearest weapon/prop and charge
it up to the maximum power. Once he's done spinning, throw the weapon at him.
He'll lose some health that you can pick up. After this he will chase you
again. this is the basic strategy to defeat the Robot Cat and it'll work
every time. Also, look out for Robot Cats Berserk because it is very powerful.
When in action, he flies around and shoots fire balls at a very fast rate.
Definately something to watch out for, however during a boss match it's hard
for him to work up enough Berserk power to use it so don't worry.
Monster Jerry - Basically for Monster Jerry, fight him like you would any
previous character. The things to look out for are his Berserk and him drinking
the liquid that makes him a monster. Keep him away from the potion in
FrankenMouse and try to defeat him before his gets a Berserk. If he gets a
Berserk, it will do a lot of damage. The time to capitalize on him is when he
shrinks back to size. When this happens, pulverize him!
Controlling:
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Understanding how to control the bosses isn't as hard as you may think.
However, mastering their abilities and defeating others with them can prove
to be a hassle. There are just certain stipulations for both of them that
you must follow to master controlling them.
Robot Cat - Since Robot Cat is nothing like any other character, he is very
different to control. He can only bite which is his punch, throw fire balls
which takes forever to charge up (You have to hold the button down), spin flame
which is cool but he spins for way to long and jump. Robot Cat is a pain in the
neck to try and control. He will probably frustrate you because he is so slow
with his moves and the other characters will run circles around you as you try
to shoot fire balls at them or wait for them to jump into your spin flame. The
best part about Robot Cat is when you get to use his Berserk! Here are the
controls:
Triangle - Bite
Square - Throws Fire Balls
X - Jump
Circle - Spin Flame
Monster Jerry - Monster Jerry's controls are no different then that of other
characters except you have to deal with him growing large and shrinking back to
his small size. As Monster Jerry you can drink the potion that's in
FrankenMouse (which you do with the punch button when you have the potion) but
if you're in another level the only way you can grow into a monster again is to
use Berserk. Every match you get to start as the monster, so use that to your
advantage and get an early beating in on your opponent. Save throwing objects
till you're small.
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VII. Other Unlockables (Costumes and Weapons? Oh My!)
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From what I've read and seen, I guess there are quite a few costumes and
weapons to unlock in WotW, however I am working on a longer list for them. So
far I only have two of them and one unexplained one. You unlock most things by
destroying certain parts of an environment, and they will be explained below.
(Note: You can only unlock these things in versus mode or possibly the tag
modes? and you must use the characters that I have outlined for you already.)
Turn the Blue title background to Red:
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This is accomplished when you unlock all the secret characters in the
Challenge mode.
Unlock Butch's Bathing Suit Costume in PAWS:
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You must be playing with Tom and Butch in versus mode:
Accomplished by only breaking the front of the brink pier.
Unlock Tom's Bathing Suit Costume in PAWS:
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You must be playing with Tom and Butch in versus mode:
Accomplished by breaking the front door of the shop.
Unexplained: Map Destroyed in FrankenMouse:
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You must be playing with Robot Cat and Monster Jerry in versus mode:
Break everything in the environment except for the wall on top of the cylinder
in the back. Once you break everything, go on top of the cylinder and break
the wall behind it. The screen should say "Map Destroyed". This message is
still a mystery as to what it means.
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VIII. Don'ts forgets... (Strategizing to win)
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-Don't forget the importance of weapons, especially the hand weapons.
These can do a lot of damage to your opponent in the clutch of a match.
-Don't forget that each environment has some kind of hazard and that it will
hurt you if you walk into it (IE: In FrankenMouse the lightning, and in Ciao
Meow the Bees); So Watch Out!
-Don't forget: Do not underestimate the power of Berserk! Berserk is very
powerful in almost all situations, especially if you have a hand weapon. Make
sure that you can grab a hand weapon before you use your Berserk and your
battle will be over in no time.
-Don't forget to try and pick up all the health you see. You can do brain
busting moves and make the enemy drop like 5 bags. If you happen to pick up all
5, this can really help you in the long run.
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IX. Cheats (...You Dirty Cheater)
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If you really find it nessessary to use cheats to get the unlockable Costumes
and Weapons, then by all measn use the codes. However, if you have any sort of
conscience then please turn the other cheek! All of the cheats must be entered
on the cheats screen under options. If you use them once, they're turned on,
if you use them again then they turn off.
Automatically Refills Health when it depletes:
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X, O, X, Triangle, Triangle, Square, O, Triangle
Unlimited Ammo:
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Circle, Square, Circle, Triangle, X, Square, X, X
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X. Credits (Links, Thanks and Copyright)
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THANKS to Gamefaqs for hosting my first contribution to the site, THANKS to
Vis Entertainment and New Kid Co for making a semi-decent game that I could
write a FAQ for, THANKS to everyone else for not making a FAQ for this game
already so that it gave me a reason to make it and THANKS to everyone who
reads it and finds it useful.
Links:
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http://www.gamefaqs.com - The Hostess
http://www.newkidco.com - The Publisher
http://www.visentertainment.com - The Developer
Sites Allowed to Post This FAQ:
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http://www.gamefaqs.com
http://www.cheatplanet.com
This document is Copyright 2003 Glomerate. You may not use this FAQ for
anything but personal and private use when playing Tom and Jerry in War of
the Whiskers. This FAQ cannot be placed on any website, reproduced in anyway
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