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About
ToonTown is a MMORPG Loosely based on the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit in which a group of anthropomorphic animals known as toons fight off an army of business robots known as the Cogs
History
Toontown was released for Windows on June 2nd 2003 by Developers Disney Interactive,
Schell Games, and Frogchildren Studios and Published by The Walt Disney Company
Gameplay
Players are first introduced to making their toon when starting the game. The options for the animal your toon is includes Bear, Dog, Cat, Pig, Horse, Mouse, and Rabbit. Each Toon is given a laff meter which is used as a health bar, if a toon runs out of laff they have to retreat battle and go back to the playground. The playgrounds have petshops, mission areas, clothing shops, and a minigame are. Ceartain playgrounds have special areas like ToonTown central having goofeys speed way and Donalds dock having chip and dale acres. The biggest and most essential part of Toontowns gameplay is battling the cogs. Toons are given gags to fight the cogs in a turn based team work focused battle that go until either the cogs or the toons are defeated. The player levels up their gags every time they defeat a cog.
Reception
The game was positively recieved and got a 81% from meta critic and a 82% from game rankings.com
It received 14 awards including the:
- Computer Gaming World MMORPG Game of the Year
- Game industry News Family Game of the Year
- Webby Award For People’s Voice
- Parents’ Choice Foundation Silver Honor
- Game industry News Family Game of the Year
ToonTown’s Closing
On August 20th, 2013, Disney announced that after running for ten years ToonTown will be shutting down.
For the remainder of the games time players we all given free membership.
Many fans were extremely disappointing some making whole videos about the subject:
Many users and fans tried to petition the closing, but Disney never responded.
On September 19th, 2013 ToonTown Online was Officially closed.
ToonTowns Revival
Since many fans were disappointed with ToonTown’s closing some tried to revive the game to bring back the nostalgic joy of it. The most notable revivals of the game are ToonTown RewrittenToonTown Infinite and ToonTown House. ToonTown Rewritten being the most popular with 3000 beta testers is releasing September 19th, 2014, a whole year after
ToonTown online’s closing. Though ToonTown’s revival games are great they have many problems in their beta’s. ToonTown Rewritten, while releasing soon, has a Semi-Open Beta system in which users have to wait in lines, plan playtimes, or use beta keys to get in. Many users complain about this system frequently. ToonTown Infinite may seem like the winner with no wait lines and more features, but no release date is scheduled and it is notoriously laggy. ToonTown House has not gotten a official website and those who have played it have made videos testing it: