Bee Movie Game

Jan 12th, 2009 by cm1

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Activision’s Bee Movie Game, based on the Jerry Seinfeld-fronted animated feature that’s currently inching out of theaters, is better than expected. There were just too many opportunities to turn this game about the plight of Barry B. Benson into a rote 3D platformer with some honey-collecting scavenger hunts, so it is to developer Smart Bomb’s credit that the Bee Movie Game actually pushes out the expectations of a licensed kid’s movie game. That’s not to say that the Bee Movie Game is a resounding success, because there are a few hitches and hiccups in the Wii edition of the game that will likely frustrate the target audience.

When the Bee Movie Game opens, Barry is recounting his life’s experience to the reporter Jeanette Chung. Chronicling his life prior to the adventure depicted in the movie, Barry humbly discusses his roots in a series of small vignettes that employ a nice sense of humor. These cutscenes are not the kind you pound on the A button to skip through. Cutscenes that use in-game models actually look quite good and are a stark contrast to the scenes sliced from the movie itself, which are garishly compressed and ruined with terrible color. Seriously, check out the skin tone on some of the humans — especially Vanessa, the woman Barry develops a, er, relationship with. Does she have jaundice?

After the set-up, we’re dropped into Barry relatively banal life in New Hive City. Since this is before his legal crusade against humanity’s honey thievery, Barry must earn a living by performing a collection of odd jobs. New Hive City is a decently bustling metropolis, full of bees just going about their daily routines. Barry must earn honey in the city in order to buy flight licenses that let him leave the hive (and thusly go on to the story-driven missions). To pocket some of the sweet stuff, Barry visits a job terminal inside New Hive City to accept gigs such as a factory worker, delivery boy, or cab driver. He can also race other bees.

New Hive City is hardly Liberty City, but there are some much-appreciated sandbox elements. Kids will enjoy just exploring the city and trying out these jobs. The taxi driving missions get progressively longer, as Barry zips around the downtown area taking bees to local sights, such as the Queen Bee statue or the movie theater. At the Honex factory, Barry enlists in simple tasks like collecting honey in buckets or operating a crane. These mini-games use the Wii Remote in very basic ways. Perhaps that’s great for the six-year-old in your house, but slightly older gamers might be turned off by such simplistic mechanics as turning the Wii Remote to move a bucket or direct a crane.

In one of the more quizzical design decisions, Barry explores New Hive City in a car — despite having his species preferred mode of transportation sprouting right out of his back. Driving controls are simple; it’s mapped to the nunchuk with C and Z used for gas and brake. While exploring the city, players will find lots of things to gawk at, including an arcade full off classics that have been re-imagined for bees, such as Frogger and Space Invaders. This is a nice addition, even if the quality of the arcade games is mixed.

But if players want to leave the hive, Barry must fall in with the Pollen Jockeys. These high-flying bees are the hive’s pollen collectors, responsible for bringing back the goods to produce honey as well as defend the hive from encroachers, such as dragonflies and wasps. When Barry leaves the hive, players enter into two different types of story missions. The better of the two is the interactive cinema, which plays out much like those classic arcade gems, Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace. The free-flight sequences stumble thanks to overly complex controls that will quickly frustrate any game, young or old.

Pass: SupperDupper

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