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.
Cat senses when a cat is unable to see its prey because it is too close to its mouth, its whiskers move so as to form a basket shape around its muzzle in order to precisely detect the prey's location. A cat whose whiskers have been damaged may bite the wrong part of its prey, indicating that they provide cats with detailed information about the shape and activity of its prey. The cat family was shown in 2005 to lack the TAS1R2 protein, one of two required for function of the sweetness sensory receptor; a deletion in the relevant gene ("Tas1r2") causes