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IGN Review of Naughty Bear
I've only played a few hours of Naughty Bear, but I don't need to waste any more of my time to tell you that this game is a waste of yours. Naughty Bear is an embarrassment and shouldn't be purchased by anyone anywhere.
The gist here is that you're Naughty, a bear the other bears don't like. They don't invite you to a birthday party, so you pick up weapons and run around killing them. This sounds cool, but it's atrocious in terms of how it runs, the camera, the repetition and so on. It's just an utter failure on every front.
Levels start by briefing you on what you need to do -- kill everyone, defeat people only using contextual moves, and so on -- and then you're out in the thick of it. As you kill the other bears, you're awarded points. These points unlock bridges so that you can go to the next area. Finish the objective and the level is over, and if you do well you'll get an in-game trophy. Once you have enough trophies, the next level or challenge will unlock.
The idea of this is fine, but the execution is terrible. You'll pick up weapons such as golf clubs, guns and machetes that you can use to maul these bears, but you can't lock on to them, so you're constantly chasing them, hacking a bit, and watching them run off. They won't get far, though; escaping enemies either get winded in second, trip, or inexplicably stop at campfires to warm their hands. Each weapon has an ultra kill (a canned animation you can use when an enemy is injured), but you'll discover these animations get old fast. Stabbing a bear in the stomach -- even if you execute the move from behind -- isn't as fun as it sounds when you've done it a hundred times.
Speeding up your realization that this game is garbage is the fact that everything looks bad. Your ultra kills clip though the bears, the framerate is constantly chugging, and the camera is terrible -- it gets stuck in walls, obscures your view, and literally made me car sick.
There's no impact when you hit someone in the head with a bat, you have to fight the camera to get it where you want it, the levels are empty, it's a struggle to fight the bears, and your enemies go through the floor. I could go on like this, but do I really need to?
Observant readers might notice that the Xbox 360 version of Naughty Bear is getting a slightly higher score. This is because although the 360 still has framerate dips, they aren't as severe as the PS3 and the game looks a bit better overall in terms of color and detail. Still, it's no award winner.
©2010-06-30, IGN Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The gist here is that you're Naughty, a bear the other bears don't like. They don't invite you to a birthday party, so you pick up weapons and run around killing them. This sounds cool, but it's atrocious in terms of how it runs, the camera, the repetition and so on. It's just an utter failure on every front.
Levels start by briefing you on what you need to do -- kill everyone, defeat people only using contextual moves, and so on -- and then you're out in the thick of it. As you kill the other bears, you're awarded points. These points unlock bridges so that you can go to the next area. Finish the objective and the level is over, and if you do well you'll get an in-game trophy. Once you have enough trophies, the next level or challenge will unlock.
The idea of this is fine, but the execution is terrible. You'll pick up weapons such as golf clubs, guns and machetes that you can use to maul these bears, but you can't lock on to them, so you're constantly chasing them, hacking a bit, and watching them run off. They won't get far, though; escaping enemies either get winded in second, trip, or inexplicably stop at campfires to warm their hands. Each weapon has an ultra kill (a canned animation you can use when an enemy is injured), but you'll discover these animations get old fast. Stabbing a bear in the stomach -- even if you execute the move from behind -- isn't as fun as it sounds when you've done it a hundred times.
Speeding up your realization that this game is garbage is the fact that everything looks bad. Your ultra kills clip though the bears, the framerate is constantly chugging, and the camera is terrible -- it gets stuck in walls, obscures your view, and literally made me car sick.
There's no impact when you hit someone in the head with a bat, you have to fight the camera to get it where you want it, the levels are empty, it's a struggle to fight the bears, and your enemies go through the floor. I could go on like this, but do I really need to?
Observant readers might notice that the Xbox 360 version of Naughty Bear is getting a slightly higher score. This is because although the 360 still has framerate dips, they aren't as severe as the PS3 and the game looks a bit better overall in terms of color and detail. Still, it's no award winner.
©2010-06-30, IGN Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved