For those of you who are fans of the recently cancelled FOX television cartoon series Futurama, this is your last hurrah away from reruns as you play through 22 third person viewed levels as the abrasive robot Bender, the flakey Fry and the always serious one-eyed Leela. The game captures the true essence of the television show and delivers it straight into your PlayStation 2. The now 3d cartoon characters have the same voices and the same quirky personalities as their controllable counterparts and make you feel as though you are actually playing the television show.

For a game that doesn't seem to rely heavily on high demanding graphics or any superior special effects to make the games visuals over the top, Futurama did have more than its fair share of frame rate loss during certain levels no matter if there were many enemies on the screen at once or not. Each level has its own unique feel and unfortunately that feel is usually the exact same for a very long time through out each level. Running through hallways, leads to more hallways or to an elevator which will raise you up or down a level of even more hallways. The overall feel of Futurama and its cel-shaded style is great, provided you are a fan of the style but in reality there couldn't have been any other way to bring the game to you in its true form. The cut scenes in between missions are as though they have been pulled straight from the cartoon and some of them tend to run quite long, with others being a short quip or joke to give you a giggle. Also the loading screens are humorous advertisements for products from the show which bring out a chuckle as you wait for the next mission.

The main story of Futurama takes place as the feeble minded professor Hubert Farnsworth sells his courier company, Planet Express, to the evil power magnate known as Mom. This in turn gives her ownership of fifty one percent of Earth and she has her sights set on ruling it with an iron fist along with her Hover Bot Death Squads. The delivery team takes off from Earth to escape but end up in a battle between Mom and her henchmen for the majority of the game. Other side quests during your travels require you to help find parts of your spaceship to get off the Earth and help remove a Sun God from his tormenting position of power on the sun.

Controlling each character is simple enough and pretty straight forward. Fry uses weapons such as a hammer or gun, where as playing as Leela or Bender uses physical attacks such as jump kicks or arm spins. They each also have special charge attacks that require you to pick up orbs to be able use them. If you are not a fan of jumping puzzles (and who is?), then you will get annoyed at Futurama from the near beginning. There are more than a few times that jumping puzzles are needed to be overcome to proceed and at times it may seem like there are overwhelming as they switch between the falling platform puzzles and the moving platform puzzles, not to mention that on most of them is you miss time a single jump, you're dead. There are also riddles that you need to solve to get past certain doors but unfortunately these puzzles are always the same and aren't that difficult at all. Bender and Fry have number puzzles where a certain order of numbers has to be inputted correctly to pass. On the other hand Leela has a type of simon says puzzle that after solving it for the fifth different time gets quite tiresome. There are other scenarios to help break up monotony of the regular run, jump, and shoot levels such as Dr. Zoidberg's "horse" ride through the swamps or Fry's arcade style Chicken Walker stroll through New New York. Each character makes their own little comments and remarks throughout the game when you pick up items or money and even has their face in the top left hand corner talk to you as they do.

Being a game that is mainly catered to fans of the show, it would make sense that this game would be enjoyed by them at a higher level. If you aren't a fan of the show or haven't ever had the chance of experiencing the Futurama universe then this game more than likely won't float your boat and will be no more that an average run and gun third person shoot'em up. People who are fans of the show will enjoy this game quite thoroughly and the cut scenes make the game seem like a never seen before episode.