Another day, another review frantically pushed through the series of tubes known as the internets.
I'm gonna keep this one short and sweet and say Bear Pile is an impressive game with a surprising amount of polish. There's my review in a nutshell. You can leave if you want.
Of course, I wouldn't feel right about myself if I left you with just that. Here's a more in-depth analysis:
The graphics are probably the game's most impressive feature. Everything is colorful and stylized as well as being competently textured, giving off what I would call the best 3D graphical style on this list so far (with the exception of Base Invaders).
The sound direction is well done, too. Again, there's not much to say. I'm probably going to stop including this section in my reviews unless I have something outstanding to comment on. I think what I like best about the sound direction in Bear Pile are the sound effects. They do a great job cluing you in as to what's happening. I feel like I could play this game with my eyes closed, but don't want to because it looks so damn pretty.
The gameplay is, once again, the main selling point. The hook this time around is that there are two armories, a defensive cache and an offensive cache, that you can take stuff from. There are no unnecessary gimmicks like warm up time, thus keeping the game fast-paced and fun. You can only carry one weapon at a time, so you need to decide whether to go for an offensive approach or a defensive approach. Although, you won't get far unless you use both caches. The one problem I have is that there's one strategy that's quite easy to figure out and trumps all the others. Build up the defensive before the bears get close and then switch to offensive and smash the bears' heads in with a lead pipe.
All things considered, this game impressed me. One nitpick point I feel I should add in here is that the game doesn't let you alt+tab out of it. I usually play these games with Blogger and Skype open, but while I was playing Bear Pile, I couldn't use either. A bit annoying, but I say you should still give it a shot.
Until next time, stay away from the bears.
Links
https://www.digipen.edu/?id=1170&proj=18584
