During production of the game, the creators used Bionicle fan forum site BZPower for reference for the collectibles in the game.
The game utilizes none of the characters' official abilities and mask powers. Instead, the game developers made up new and unique powers for each character and item.
Since the game used the same masculine sounds for every playable Toa character, this meant that even Toa Hahli, a female Toa, ended up sounding like a man.
The Matoran villagers appearing in the opening animation are all based on the actual Matoran sets in accordance to their elements (for example, all Fire Matoran look like Balta and all Ice Matoran look like Kazi). This is, however, not canonical, as in the story, each Matoran has an individual design, even within the same element.
Many characters got redesigned slightly to work better as video game characters. For example, Roodaka was given huge claws like those of Sidorak (her toy form had no real hands) and the Rahkshi were given longer arms to be able to fight better.