The Battle Bears franchise has yet another entry in their epic saga brewing, this time focusing on the bumbling antics of that lovable loser Wil. You might recall the original fixed-turret shooter Battle Bears ($2.99) when it launched in 2009. We really enjoyed the complete absurdity of the storyline, characters, and weaponry when it first hit, and it went on to receive a ton of updates adding all sorts of new content and features, finally arriving at the Battle Bears: Zombies! iteration that its at now.
The following year, a prequel was released called Battle Bears -1 ($2.99) that focused on the events leading up to the first game, and evolved the fixed-turret gameplay into a more traditional free-roaming 3rd-person shooter. And like the original game we liked Battle Bears -1 quite a bit too, and it subsequently received some significant update love following its release in 2010 making it an overall better game in the end.
The third game in the series falls in the middle of the two previous games, and is appropriatley named Battle Bears Zero. It’s subtitled Wil’s Finest Hour, and stars the high-pitched voice and borderline pathetic antics of the weakest member of the Battle Bears crew. Sure, I’m being a bit tough on the little guy, but seriously he is a complete mess. Fortunately it looks like he’ll have a chance to prove himself in this new game.
The Battle Bears empire extends beyond these 3 main games in the series, too. There’s the fun gallery shooter Battle Bears Blast ($2.99) which is free and features smart single-handed controls, a Smash TV-inspired top-down dual-stick shooter Battle Bears Go ($0.99) for the iPad, and the class-based online multiplayer 3rd-person shooter Battle Bears Royale (Free) which is also free to download and has a fairly large player base even almost a year after launching.
I really like the Battle Bears games simply for the crazy characters, hilarious dialogues, and sheer strangeness. And typically, depending on your tastes, the gameplay in each game offers something fun too, and I’m already looking forward to Wil’s Finest Hour. It sounds like it’s just a few weeks away too, so we’ll be sure to let you know when it hits.
There's a typo in the title: Should say TheCodingMonkeys, not TheCodeMonkeys. :)
Is this iPhone only, or Universal?
Dominion and Lost Cities on the same day? Christmas is coming early!
Lost cities is August 23rd, Dominion is the 16th. So, you'll have to wait one week between releases, unfortunately.
Yeah, I should clarify..."Hearing about Dominion and Lost Cities in the same day? Kwanzaa is coming early!"
Although now that I think about it, do you give gifts for Kwanzaa...?
Also would like to know if it's Universal, if there's plans for single device multiplayer, and if online can be asynchronous.
Klaus Jurgen did Carcassonne. Reiner did lost cities. Code monkeys ported these games from these two excellent game designers to ios. Will download this on launch. I hear Agricola by Uwe Boll is coming from some other dev team within the next couple months. Love board games.
edit: curse you disqus
Agricola was designed by Uwe Rosenberg. You probably knew that and just mistyped.
Agricola is being done by Playdek, the guys who did Ascension, Nightfall, and Summoner Wars.
Code Monkeys are awesome, and this game has a 7.13 geek score - which is close enough to Carcassonne (7.46).
I have never played Lost Cities, but this is an instant buy. Considering everything CM must have learned from making Carcassonne, the UX of Lost Cities should be spectacular.
Awesome, was just talking about this game to someone yesterday, planning on buying the board game, now I'm going to have to get it digitally too, anything made by TheCodeMonkeys has got to be worth getting, I love carcassonne it's one of the best turn based games I own, and mainly due to how good it's multiplayer turn based system is implemented. makes this in instant buy.