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 whiskers use a variety of techniques, including temporary deprivation either of the whisker sense or of other senses. Animals can be deprived of their whisker sense for a period of weeks by whisker trimming (they soon grow back), or for the duration of an experimental trial by restraining the whiskers with a flexible cover like a mask (the latter technique is used, in particular, in studies of marine mammals). Such experiments have shown that whiskers are required for, or contribute to: object localization, orienting of the snout, detection of movement, texture discrimination, shape discrimination, exploration, thigmotaxis, locomotion, maintenance of equilibrium,