Bears In Space

I was put off this game by some of the negative reviews - thankfully I gave it a chance as it's heaps of fun! The levels are creative, with zany weapons and a good difficulty curve. Collectables and secrets are about right, and the themes/ humor are well targetted. My only complaint is the weapon upgrades (managed by # of kills) take too long/ are grindy. Give it a go, its a great game and lots of fun, especially if you enjoy High on Life, and the new Dooms.

Ursine 1950s retro-future comedy FPS is fun for a few hours and has some welcome variety in its platforming and various comedic bits, but both the comedy and the gameplay wear thin after a few hours; on the former side, your AI companion (not-so-cleverly named Beartana) has an incredibly grating voice, and the conceit of Forbidden Planet-esque retro robots acting sort of like people gets stale pretty fast; with regards to the latter, the robot enemies get pretty repetitive to fight, and the bullet-hell projectile patterns aren't a particularly good fit for the FPS genre, at least without significantly more in the way of evasive or defensive options than the game's mechanics afford you. May be worth a try on sale, and it's amusing for a couple hours, but that's as far as my recommendation goes.

The game instantly crashes on new game launch, with no apparent fix. Unreal engine, truely the cancer of gaming.

Bears in Space is a fairly fun FPS that gets dragged down by often times weird pacing, humour that misses as much as it hits, and an overall lack of focus on what works. Despite these gripes it is still a decent FPS with a ton of potential and stuff to enjoy. I will always judge an FPS (especially those that are aiming to be a bit more boomer shooter-y) by how good their shotgun is; if your shotgun sucks, I am immediately biased against you. Bears in Space's shotgun is fantastic, debatably too much so; by the end of the game I didn't feel compelled to make use of the game's staggering multitude of weapons, and instead just swapped to the shotgun and one shot pretty much every enemy, regardless of distance. This is both a good and a bad thing; it really does go to highlight this game's lack of focus; I feel like having the shotgun either slightly weaker or the other weapons slightly stronger would have made the selection feel more interesting and useful. The other weapons still have their uses, but by the time you've upgraded everything Ratchet & Clank style, the shotgun by far feels like the best weapon of the bunch. The shooting here is mostly pretty good; it's nothing special, but encounters don't last too long and never feel unfair, and there are a few enemies that it throws at you to keep you moving. I don't love the decision to take influence from bullet hells; it is something that doesn't translate particularly well to first person, simply due to your perspective making a lot of stuff awkward to dodge. What brings this game down for me is the length; this game shouldn't be 12+ hours long. Some levels in this thing literally go on for over an hour, a lot of which is just taken up with walking down hallways, listening to dialogue which doesn't really mean that much. This game really does have a ton of heart; I can tell those who worked on it really cared about what they were making. Stuff like there being a secret where you get whisked away to a basketball game that actually controls pretty well were really charming and a decent distraction from the game, but for every one cool moment like this there's like five fights where you transform into a bear and just run at enemies holding M1. A pretty good game, but one that goes on a little too long. Very charming with a cool retro future aesthetic and a good sense of humour. Worth a try if you like boomer shooters, just don't expect a masterpiece of the genre. 6/10

Honestly, just play high on life, i think it is better in humor and gameplay.

I didnt play this game because it uses 80~100% of my gpu. And to think that i even enabled vsync and limited to 60 the fps

Amazing. Great humor and design. Love the platform, bullet hell, doom mix of gameplay with a weapon level system that requires using the weapons. +1 point for Max being mentioned in the dialogue so much as a Max myself.

https://youtu.be/ZBgBfQcYz9Q Humor elements are hit or miss, while the FPS action is delivered at a much lower level.