Put simply, Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit looks just like the movie. The character models resemble their claymation counterparts, though the animation seemed to be a little jerky. Whether this was an error or done to help sell the stop-action feel, I can't be sure.

The locations also look like their movie models, everything from Tottington Manner to the backyard gardens seem to come straight from the film.

As for voice acting, Wallace, Hutch, Lady Tottington, Victor Quartermain and all the other talking characters are straight from the film. If it isn't the same acting troupe, then they are a good group of impersonators. The game's music also seems to fit what I heard when I went to see the film in the theaters.

Since life as an inventor doesn't tend to make one wealthy, Wallace and his loyal dog, Gromit, have a day job. They use some of Wallace's contraptions to keep an eye on their client's gardens and use these devices to help them in their hunt to free mankind from rabbit problems forever. So Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit follows the two Anti-Pesto owners as they move from garden to garden, sucking up rabbits and humanely disposing of them.

But, like in the movie, when Wallace tries to remove all desire to eat vegetables from some captive rabbits, something goes wrong and there is now a monstrous rabbit running around their town eating gardens whole. So naturally, Anti-Pesto must come to the aid of the town and rid the area of the unnatural rodent in time to save the Great Vegetable Competition.

You will be able to play as Wallace, Gromit and Hutch (the brain-washed rabbit that has started acting like Wallace) as you use the various inventions to round up the rodents. You will play through all of the major events from the movie, as well as quite a few extra missions. For instance, the first mission has you cleaning up Lady Tottington's front lawn. You will have to use a combination of the Bun-Gun and Wallace's Bunvac 6000 to suck all the rabbits into a humane container. After cleaning up the front area, Tottington asks that you go around to the side and save the prized pumpkins from the hidden and trapped bunnies found there. This is an event that wasn't in the movie, but added more playtime and fun.

All-in-all, the amount of missions you can go on go a long way towards making this game last. Not only do you get to hunt the Beast across the backyards of the city, but you will have to get rid of the rabbits, sheep, turkeys, chickens and several other pests. Also, the Were-Rabbit isn't the only monster about. As you progress, you will also need to take out were-weasels, were-rats, were-chickens, were-hedgehogs and were-badgers.

Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit has a fairly good difficulty gradient. The early levels are pretty easy and should require no real effort to heard the pests into their various traps. As the game progresses, though, you will have to do a wider variety of actions in order to complete the missions, making these later levels slightly harder. But Curse of the Were-Rabbit never gets so tough that you can't complete the mission in one or two tries. This gradual but not overpowering increase in difficulty really makes this a game that the younger players will be able to get into.

All three playable characters of Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit have the same control scheme, making it easy to switch between the different characters when these changes are called for. X makes your character jump, while the Square button is how you attack. Circle blocks attacks, while the Triangle button is used to activate various objects around the game-world.

You use your BunGun with the R1 button and holding down the shoulder button lets you suck up pests. When they have been lodged into the barrel of your gun, you can spit them out by tapping the R1 button again. But this isn't just for bunnies, chickens and turkeys, as you can suck up pretty much anything that isn't nailed down and shoot it out again. L2 lets you swap between the available characters, while R2 is how you release your captured were-energy. This energy is little balls of orbs that are dropped from were-creatures and you can use this ammo to shock your enemies.

There are times when you will have to tell another character to do something. More times than not, its telling Wallace to turn something on, or turn a crank or some other laborious task. You tell the other character what to do by going to a glowing icon next to the object they will be manipulating and pressing the L1 button.

Any fan of the Wallace and Gromit shorts and movie should already have this game (if you don't, then what are you waiting for?). If you're not familiar with the British duo, then they are definitely worth a looking into and fans of the action/adventure genres should definitely check this title out.