Tom and Jerry in War of the Whiskers voice veteran Jim Cummings voices Lion. John DiMaggio, also of "Futurama" fame, provides sound effects for Monster Jerry. Dee Bradley Baker, who voices the Clone troopers in "" and other "Star Wars" series and games, provides the voice of Robot Cat. "Tom and Jerry in War of the Whiskers" received "mixed or average" reviews on all platforms, according to review aggregator Metacritic. In Japan, where the PlayStation 2 version was ported and published by Success on January 29, 2004, "Famitsu" gave it a score of two sixes, one five, and one four for a total of 21 out of 40.
Whiskers benefits are that it provides more degrees of freedom for sensor positioning, that it allows the animal to sample a larger volume of space with a given density of whiskers, and that it allows control over the velocity with which the whiskers contact surfaces." Animals that do not whisk, but have motile whiskers, presumably also gain some advantage from the investment in musculature. Dorothy Souza, in her book "Look What Whiskers Can Do" reports some whisker movement during prey capture (in cats, in this case): "Whiskers bend forward as the cat pounces. Teeth grasp the mouse tightly around its neck.