xbox 360 game reviews - Naughty Bear

This flaky action game falls short of the darkly funny teddy-bear rampage promised by the concept.

The Good

• Good concept
• Some amusingly brutal kills.

The Bad

• Game mechanics are rough around the edges
• Basic combat lacks challenge
• Shallow storytelling
• Too much main game content locked off.

Naughty Bear is an action game with one joke, and it's in the title. You play as Naughty Bear himself, who flips out after not being invited to a birthday party. The proportionate response for the fuzzy psycho is, naturally, to terrorise, maim, and murder the other bears living on Perfection Island. Although the sight of one teddy bear bludgeoning another to death is as arresting as developer Artificial Mind and Movement presumably intended, the bear-on-bear extreme violence is the game's only real hook, and it's stretched thin over the course of a full-sized game. Couple that with some shaky basic mechanics, and Naughty Bear becomes a hard sell.

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