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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Snoopy flies with arcade combat game

Washington Post

VIDEO GAME REVIEW

Game: "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron"

Consoles: PlayStation 2, PSP

Developer/publisher: Namco Bandai/Smart Bomb Interactive

Rated: Everyone 10+

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Snoopy puts the dog in dogfight in the colorful arcade combat flight game "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron," which pits Charlie Brown's famous beagle against the World War I Ace of Aces.

Like the comic strip created by Charles Schulz, this is one parents can enjoy with their kids. The whole Peanuts gang appears. Charlie Brown is a prisoner of war, Sally is a spy, Lucy is a field general, and Linus is an intelligence officer. The only thing missing are voices that sound like the original cartoon characters, but that's a minor flaw.

Everything takes place in the air in six worlds. Snoopy, who's flying a Sopwith Camel instead of the doghouse he uses in the comics, fights the Red Baron and his Flying Circus to stop the Doodlebug missile from being deployed. Dogfights occur over land and sea as Snoopy, with his trusty wingman, Woodstock, protects Allied bases and takes down enemy forces using his guns and 10 secondary weapons, including pumpkin seed shotguns and water balloon launchers.

The single-player game spans about eight hours, but playing through unlocks all 13 Peanuts characters.