Post by The Chupster on Jul 7, 2010 16:48:18 GMT -5
Genre: Murderous Teddy Bear Rampage Simulator
The short & skinny of it:
Well, the reviews are in, and they're heavily negative. Except mine.
The plot (such as it is) revolves around Naughty Bear not being invited to a party by his fellow Bears, so he decides- TO BE NAUGHTY!!!
So you spend pretty much every level beating bears to death and scaring them. Which is a little more of a chore than it should be sometimes- the controls are very twitchy and the camera fucking HATES YOU.
The game looks like a 3rd-rate first generation XBox game.
BUT.
BUT.
It's FUN!
Now, by NO means am I saying run out and buy this. If you spend more than $15 on this, you're a complete sucker- this REALLY should've been released as a Live Arcade title, because it looks and feels like one. Hell, if you install it on your hard drive, it doesn't even take up 1gb!!!
But running around, trashing everything, busting windows, chasing the other bears and beating them senseless, capturing them in traps, forcing them to watch their fellow bears getting mangled (the game calls this "stressing the meat"- LOL), stalking them, destroying their methods of calling for help or getting away... there's just something that's very appealing about this game.
In one playthrough I'd frightened 4 bears into one room of a building, and they had barricaded all but one door, which opened into another room. I busted out all the windows, relishing in their frightened cries and the constant info update ("Bubbles has witnessed a bear being mangled!" "Daddles is scared!" LOL), and then I crawled through a window into the adjoining room and hid in a locker. One of the remaining bears freaked out and opened the door, running out of the room- right for the locker, which he opened right as I busted out to scare him! And then I chopped the shit out of him with an axe and murdered his shit while they flipped.
It was, simply put, delicious. You just don't get a serial killer freakshow simulator like this.
Now, the other reviews of this have been harsh. To be fair, I haven't played multiplayer, but other reviews I read have focused on the ugly graphics and the choppy framerate. While the graphics aren't the best, they aren't the worst I've seen on this generation, either. And I haven't noticed any drop in framerate in single player at all, EXCEPT during the brief 'cutscenes' when you go from one area to the next and the game is loading in the next area.
The game could've benefited a lot from some more polish in just about every way. The controls are just weird-feeling and somewhat awkward. The camera is a bitch. The graphics are SEVERELY underwhelming, especially in certain cases- like when you destroy a car to keep bears from getting away, but it looks exactly the same, so then when you go to the next level, you wonder- did I already disable that? So you waste time (and your score multiplier) checking, or you risk a bear escaping, which in some modes is an instant Game Over. (Yes, I lost a level this way.)
But at its core is a fun, goofy, exciting serial killer simulator which, while basic- and full of stuffed animals instead of gore; this game would've been MAD awesome withsome cartoon characters and buckets of blood- is really quite fun and easily capable of destroying a few hours of time here and there.
It ain't perfect, but what game is? Just don't pay more than its worth- it'll be in bargain bins everywhere soon enough.
The short & skinny of it:
Well, the reviews are in, and they're heavily negative. Except mine.
The plot (such as it is) revolves around Naughty Bear not being invited to a party by his fellow Bears, so he decides- TO BE NAUGHTY!!!
So you spend pretty much every level beating bears to death and scaring them. Which is a little more of a chore than it should be sometimes- the controls are very twitchy and the camera fucking HATES YOU.
The game looks like a 3rd-rate first generation XBox game.
BUT.
BUT.
It's FUN!
Now, by NO means am I saying run out and buy this. If you spend more than $15 on this, you're a complete sucker- this REALLY should've been released as a Live Arcade title, because it looks and feels like one. Hell, if you install it on your hard drive, it doesn't even take up 1gb!!!
But running around, trashing everything, busting windows, chasing the other bears and beating them senseless, capturing them in traps, forcing them to watch their fellow bears getting mangled (the game calls this "stressing the meat"- LOL), stalking them, destroying their methods of calling for help or getting away... there's just something that's very appealing about this game.
In one playthrough I'd frightened 4 bears into one room of a building, and they had barricaded all but one door, which opened into another room. I busted out all the windows, relishing in their frightened cries and the constant info update ("Bubbles has witnessed a bear being mangled!" "Daddles is scared!" LOL), and then I crawled through a window into the adjoining room and hid in a locker. One of the remaining bears freaked out and opened the door, running out of the room- right for the locker, which he opened right as I busted out to scare him! And then I chopped the shit out of him with an axe and murdered his shit while they flipped.
It was, simply put, delicious. You just don't get a serial killer freakshow simulator like this.
Now, the other reviews of this have been harsh. To be fair, I haven't played multiplayer, but other reviews I read have focused on the ugly graphics and the choppy framerate. While the graphics aren't the best, they aren't the worst I've seen on this generation, either. And I haven't noticed any drop in framerate in single player at all, EXCEPT during the brief 'cutscenes' when you go from one area to the next and the game is loading in the next area.
The game could've benefited a lot from some more polish in just about every way. The controls are just weird-feeling and somewhat awkward. The camera is a bitch. The graphics are SEVERELY underwhelming, especially in certain cases- like when you destroy a car to keep bears from getting away, but it looks exactly the same, so then when you go to the next level, you wonder- did I already disable that? So you waste time (and your score multiplier) checking, or you risk a bear escaping, which in some modes is an instant Game Over. (Yes, I lost a level this way.)
But at its core is a fun, goofy, exciting serial killer simulator which, while basic- and full of stuffed animals instead of gore; this game would've been MAD awesome withsome cartoon characters and buckets of blood- is really quite fun and easily capable of destroying a few hours of time here and there.
It ain't perfect, but what game is? Just don't pay more than its worth- it'll be in bargain bins everywhere soon enough.
