Bears In Games - The Daily Lives Of Domestic Bears

Elite Bear Agents, Bears In Sims, and a slightly off topic look at
Midnight Club: Los Angeles make up this week's too hot for TV
episode of Bears In Games!







Elite Beat Agents is a bizarre music action game from INiS that
just so happens to feature a lot of big guys, bears, and chubby
guys. A spin off of the Japan-only Ouendan series, you tap along
with the beat to progress the story. We take the time to look at
four different bearish characters, and pause momentarily to see
what secrets a young girl's dead father holds. Snotty
Japanophiles will tell you that Elite Beat Agents has nothing on
Ouendan, and that the music list sucks. Perhaps I have more
tolerance for the sort of cheap licenses this game pulls, but
it's not so bad. They generally go with the action on screen, and
hey, it's got YMCA for the wet-suited bear Captain Brooke, David
Bowie's Let's Dance, and Jamiroquai's Canned Heat! That's more
songs that I like than the average Guitar Hero game. But I do
have a terrible taste in music. I did miss out on some bears,
though; the multiplayer features some exclusive story modes that
I can't really show via emulation, and one of them has a very hot
(for the creepy / funny super deformed art style, I mean)
shirtless fat guy in a leather vest and hat. Hey! And did I
mention big bear in wetsuit? I think I did. Moving on.





The Sims 3 was a big release this year, and it's better than it
had any right to be. Honestly, it's just a polish of the Sims 2.
But the Sims 2 needed a solid polishing, so hey! On the Bears In
Games Facebook Page, I asked for anyone who wanted to be in an
episode of Bears In Games for the Sims to sign up, and I actually
got a few replies. So we've got Jack, a would-be writer and then
sometimes paramedic / heartbreaker, Tom, the guy that pretty much
everyone had a secret desire to kiss, Robbie, who watches a lot
of television, and of course me, who in this case becomes a
police officer and lounges around in underwear a lot. Oh, and has
some anti-social habits.





Finally, I review Midnight Club: Los Angeles. This game sucked.
Looks pretty in cut scenes. But the motion capture sucks, the
characters are awful, awful people that you'd never want to have
a conversation with, and the amount of T-Mobile product placement
made this game virtually unplayable for me. Fools.





What's next on the Bears In Games plate? Well, I've recorded
Final Fantasys III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, X-2, and XII and
should be recording audio for that with Max from gamesters.ca
this weekend! Get ready for a pileup of Final Fantasy fun. Given
that I was stretching the capacity of Blogger's 100mb upload
limit with this one, I may have to break the RSS feed version
into two chunks. Because that's a lot of Final Fantasy. Also
getting Robbie (from the Sims) over for the Bears In Games One
Year Anniversary episode... the subject? It's a secret. A sexy
secret.





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