Anyone remember Enviro-Bear 2010? Well this next game doesn’t alleviate us of our bear fettish (LOL)!

BATTLE BEARS ($0.99), FREE

Zombies what? Didn’t you hear they’re a thing of the past now? Bears are sooo in! What with a automobile driving bear? Can a zombie do that?

BATTLE BEARS reminds us why we love bears (still LOLing). BATTLE BEARS even goes on overdrive with super giddy bears, a bearzooka, and even rainbow headshots! Say what?!

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Presentation

I don’t know about you but looking at SKYVU‘s impressive school and work (including Coraline) background, I won’t expect any more than superb.

Fortunately, that’s exactly what they deliver from the graphics to the amazing cut scenes and soundwork. The game is a living parody of shooter genres whether the devs will admit to it or not.

It’s actually super hysterical, and the game will leave you asking about the giddy pink bears with rainbow blood (?). It’s just super confusing to the point it does NOT have to make sense and ride along.

Controls

There’s just one control really… touch to aim then tap to shoot. You can use two fingers: one for aiming and shooting, but I suggest to use one finger. It’s a little harder but trust me, you’ll need this tip on the further levels.

Gameplay

Forgive me if I don’t have the story verbatim, but I think Mr Brown Bear is from some outer planet but his ship gets shot dHP9.EAFown to a planet of pink giddy bears. If it sounds wacky and confusing, that IS THE point!

Within the actual gameplay, the story is relayed through “slideshows” with SPECTACULAR voice overs. The presentation of the voices is really a hat tip to war games like say Modern Combat.

There are two modes: Story and Survival. Survival is unlocked once you complete story mode which is fair I guess. You just keep aiming at the pink bears (sometimes orange and rarely blue), and shoot them either headshot or couple of body shots.

New weapons are given at the end of each 4 rounds (which equates to 1 level). It goes from a bazooka to some sort of megaphone called Swearaphone!

Suggestions

Story mode save checkpoints. When you die, you start off at the VERY beginning. I’d also ask for some health bar.

Finally, I’d like some more variations within the animation and sounds of different weapons. Although we do change weapons, it feels as if I haven’t changed at all since the sounds and animations are all the same.

Conclusion

Well let’s see, what can we say? F#$%!N EPIC as their swearaphone would say. Games like this carry charm in its story. It’s very well put together, and we couldn’t really ask for more.

Whoever’s put off by this game because of the premise… word of caution: try the lite at least if you don’t want rainbow foo foo shooting out of your heads.

Lastly, if you die, what happens? You get HUGGED TO DEATH of course! Pfft!