'Battle Bears' Turns 2 Years Old, 'Battle Bears Blast' Goes Free to Celebrate Plus First Trailer for 'Battle Bears Royale'
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Two years ago today, SkyVu Pictures unleashed the original Battle Bears into the App Store, which after a series of content updates is now known as Battle Bears: Zombies! [99¢/Lite] The game was your standard fixed turret shooting gallery type of game, but what really set it apart from anything else available was its more than over-the-top wackiness. Just the opening cutscene alone let you know that you were in for a wild ride that could only have been created from the most twisted of minds. In case you’re unaware, you can watch all the cutscenes from Battle Bears: Zombies! in one handy dandy YouTube video, and it’s more than worth spending 9 minutes of your life doing.
With the success of Battle Bears: Zombies!, SkyVu went on to create a new prequel in the series called Battle Bears -1 [99¢/Lite], a fun third-person shooter which fleshed out the Battle Bears lore and offered the same style of crazy that we’ve come to know and love. Following this came an iPad-only top-down dual-stick shooter inspired by the classic Smash TV called Battle Bears Go [Free], which actually stemmed from the original prototypes of what eventually became Battle Bears -1. Finally, in mid-July, the studio released Battle Bears Blast [Free], another fixed shooter with a focus on one-handed gameplay and some fun character customization options.
