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Brother Bear

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Date Released: Nov 10, 2003

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Disney's Brother Bear, the PC game, allows the player to immerse himself or herself in the fully interactive version of Kenai's world, being thoroughly entertained and a part of the lush 3-D environment. Not only can players play Kenai and Koda as bears, they can also transform into a wolf, crow, and an eagle! Features real-time 3-D gameplay based upon the grand adventure of Brother Bear, a fully interactive world and ability to play with seven characters from the film! For kids ages three and up.

Features:

  • Explore Kenai's fully interactive world
  • Experience a lush environment
  • Real-time, 3D gameplay is based upon Brother Bear's grand adventures
  • Play Kenai and Koda as bears
  • Transform into a wolf, a crow, or an eagle

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Very entertaining.

Brother Bear is a very entertaining and funny movie to watch. If you're looking for a little humor, entertainment, or somehting to watch, then Brother Bear is the movie for you. Brother Bear is a cartoon based on religion and a very adventurous movie. Brother Bear is a movie based on the main character Kenai who is still searching for who he is and learning more than what he expects to retrieve. Kenai learns his lesson by his brother Sitka dying, because of an incident with a mother bear. After Sitka's death Kenai seeks for revenge and during his journey he is taught a lesson. While being taught this lesson he is transformed into a bear and figures out what's important in life is to learn how to love the one's around you. But, at the end of the movie Kenai has to make a decision whether to be himself or to stay the way he is.
Brother Bear is a movie related to religion by the tribal worships of the spirts and how an individual from the tribe becomes intiated into the tribe. For instance, Kenai was intiated into the tribe when Tanana put markings on his face and gave him a chain with a bear and told him he is "Brother of Love." Also, the movie relates to religion by the end of the movie the tribe put on costumes that resembles different spiritual animals that the tribe worships and does a traditional dance around the camp fire. Even though the movie was based on one surrounding area where the tribe settled which would be called a local; for example, Kenai was looking for the high tops of the mountains where the light shines and where the spirits surrounds the high tops of the mountain, so he can transform back into himself, because he was transformed into a bear to be taught a lesson.
 

Brother Bear an entertaining adaptation overall

Not having seen the movie, I can't comment on screen-to-PC authenticity, but KnowWonder's Brother Bear game is an entertaining romp through a variety of gorgeous, interactive environments (Aspen forest, Valley of Fire, Salmon Run and more) on Kenai's quest to become human again. The game is narrated by Rutt and Tuke, aka the SCTV McKenzie Brothers of moose (voiced by hosers Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis, eh?), who explain the rough idea of Brother Bear: brothers Sitka, Denahi, and Kenai live in the Ice Age Pacific Northwest. When eldest brother Sitka is killed by a grizzly while protecting Kenai, Kenai tracks down the bear and kills it against the advice of the shaman. As punishment, he is transformed into a bear and must escape Denahi, who is now hunting him. Kenai befriends Koda, an orphaned grizzly cub, who helps him reach the place where the light touches the earth.

The game begins in the Apsen Forest in a training level, where Koda teaches Kenai the bear essentials: how to jump, climb, collect honeycomb to discover secret totems, and collect berries, salmon, and acorns to restore health. Interspersed between levels are arcade-style action games, such as racing to the top of the mountain, the Ice Run, and collecting the most salmon at the Salmon Run. These can be replayed to achieve a better score, or just to enjoy the action again.

Although there are no difficulty levels to choose from , the game increases in difficulty with each level. During each level Kenai must fight and escape Denahi. This is made difficult in the fact that once you enter the fights, there are no health power-ups, and if you die, you start right back out with as much or as little health as you had the first time. The saves are also automatic, and the game freezes up for a good 15-20 seconds every time it saves.

The claim that you can transform into an eagle, wolf or crow is deceiving: these are totems that you use in your quest, but you do not actually transform. The Eagle totem allows Kenai and Koda to fly to otherwise off-limits ledges and across barriers to collect bonus items (the Mystical Pinecone, which gives you an extra heart against the hunter) and to continue the game. The Wolf allows you to jump across super-wide chasms (you only use it once or twice), and the Crow allows you to see hidden objects or paths. There are also three totems that will aid you in your final fight against the Hunter: the Bear, the Sabertooth Tiger, and Golden Salmon. As a bonus, if you collect the six hidden totems, there is a hidden ending.

The 3D graphics are gorgeous: lush forest, snow-covered mountains, raging rapids and waterfalls, and volcanic craters. You can chase rabbits and butterflies for fun, fish for salmon in the river, and avoid grumpy chipmunks when collecting berries. The game did freeze up on my machine in a couple of spots (both in the Valley of Fire), but those were the only glitches I encountered. Brother Bear does require a 3D graphics card and a fair amount of memory to run smoothly (I ran it on an HP Pavillion with 256 MB RAM and an Nvidia TNT 64 MB graphics card).

Overall I feel that the game is too difficult for younger gamers (under six perhaps; the keyboard/mouse controls are rather tricky and very sensitive), but enjoyable for older kids.

 

Not for Toddlers

My 3yr old daughter loves the movie Brother Bear, so I bought the game. It is definitely geared more towards older children age 5 and up. Another drawback is the fact that you have to use the keyboard to maneuver the characters instead of the mouse. Obviously it is very difficult for a 3 year old to understand to push the space bar to jump, the contol button to move sideways, and the directional buttons to move, etc. Also, the game became stuck with 30 minutes of playing with her. I uninstalled the game and then reinstalled it and it got stuck again in the same place.
 

System Requirements don't match Software Platform

I purchased this one because it specifically said that it was supported by the Windows 2000 platform. It is NOT! When you select the Systems Requirements, it does not list Windows 2000 but I took the platform listing as valid.

Now, I have purchased software that will not work and had to watch my girls' faces when their daddy (a network engineer) could not make it work.

 

Love This Game!

This is a beautiful game. Graphics are super. The whole family can enjoy the Brother Bear game. Makes a terrific holiday gift.

Additional info for Brother Bear

Features:

Explore Kenai's fully-interactive world in this real-time, 3-D game

Comical narration explains the transformation of Kenai into his rival the bear

Set in a lush environment

Game based upon Brother Bear's grand adventures

Play Kenai and Koda as bears; transform into a wolf, a crow, or an eagle