Bee Movie Game (Wii, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, Windows)

Bee Movie Game is, as you might have guessed, based on the movie. The game begins with Barry the bee being interviewed and recounts how his adventure progressed with you playing his recounted adventure. This game is intended for kids aged 7 and up. As in the movie, you start off meeting with your buddy Andy to learn the controls and then advance to exploring the outside world for the first time with the Pollen Jocks, pollinating flowers, flying through the rain to Vanessa’s apartment, avoiding getting hit by humans in her apartment, chasing down cars, etc. Once you’ve covered the basics of the game, you begin to receive job offers for different positions within Honex. You progress through Barry’s adventure by completing a certain number of jobs and then returning home. The different jobs include: Honeycomb Collector: collect the yellow honeycombs Races: race opponents on a track Crane Operator: grabbing containers from trucks Car Mechanic: repairing cars Honey Drafter: fill baskets with honey Food Delivery: delivering meals to different places Taxi Driver: driving bees around the hive As a bee you have to avoid almost everything from dogs chasing you down to people trying to hit you with an object. You avoid objects and people by quickly pressing the number that appears on the screen. You occasionally need to take pictures of things, for example, how the people at Honey Farms are collecting honey from the bees. There are some skills like Bee Vision and Bee Reflex. Bee Vision is basically night vision for bees; only showing those important objects such as flowers or people brighter. Bee Reflex is just slow motion in which you can easily avoid objects and is useful when navigating in the rain. Within the hive, which you’re free to explore, there are certain terminals which allow you to change your clothes to almost anything, for example, if you really like a particular job you can change your everyday clothes to the clothes you wear at that job. You can visit the Video Arcade where you can purchase video games that you can play and the car dealership from which you can purchase new cars that you store in your garage and can drive anytime. There’s also a museum where you can check out your artwork from the pictures you’ve taken and hidden wax statues you’ve collected. The wall of badges allows you to examine the different badges you have collected. The Bee Movie Game seems to have the GTA gameplay style, as in you drive to the job that you want to do, have a garage in which you store cars that you purchase and can change your clothing. The only thing that this game doesn’t incorporate is that when in navigating around the hive, you can’t use your mouse to view the surroundings instead you are forced to use the directional keys. The other thing I noticed was when first flying away from the hive with all the Pollen Jocks you needed to keep tapping a number that was shown in blue. At first I had no idea what to do since when the game explained other controls it showed the controls in yellow and this time it was just a number in blue with no explanation (or voice over) of what this number meant. Maybe I was the only one that had this issue. Other than that minor inconvenience, the game is fine. The graphics could have been a little better although this game is for kids so I’m sure most if not all won’t worry about the graphics. Near the end of the game I did get a bit bored of doing the jobs over and over again. Overall it was a good game and I’d expect that if your kids liked the movie they’ll like this game.

Bee Movie Game is, as you might have guessed, based on the movie. The game begins with Barry the bee being interviewed and recounts how his adventure progressed with you playing his recounted adventure. This game is intended for kids aged 7 and up. As in the movie, you start off meeting with your buddy Andy to learn the controls and then advance to exploring the outside world for the first time with the Pollen Jocks, pollinating flowers, flying through the rain to Vanessa’s apartment, avoiding getting hit by humans in her apartment, chasing down cars, etc. Once you’ve covered the basics of the game, you begin to receive job offers for different positions within Honex. You progress through Barry’s adventure by completing a certain number of jobs and then returning home. The different jobs include: Honeycomb Collector: collect the yellow honeycombs Races: race opponents on a track Crane Operator: grabbing containers from trucks Car Mechanic: repairing cars Honey Drafter: fill baskets with honey Food Delivery: delivering meals to different places Taxi Driver: driving bees around the hive As a bee you have to avoid almost everything from dogs chasing you down to people trying to hit you with an object. You avoid objects and people by quickly pressing the number that appears on the screen. You occasionally need to take pictures of things, for example, how the people at Honey Farms are collecting honey from the bees. There are some skills like Bee Vision and Bee Reflex. Bee Vision is basically night vision for bees; only showing those important objects such as flowers or people brighter. Bee Reflex is just slow motion in which you can easily avoid objects and is useful when navigating in the rain. Within the hive, which you’re free to explore, there are certain terminals which allow you to change your clothes to almost anything, for example, if you really like a particular job you can change your everyday clothes to the clothes you wear at that job. You can visit the Video Arcade where you can purchase video games that you can play and the car dealership from which you can purchase new cars that you store in your garage and can drive anytime. There’s also a museum where you can check out your artwork from the pictures you’ve taken and hidden wax statues you’ve collected. The wall of badges allows you to examine the different badges you have collected. The Bee Movie Game seems to have the GTA gameplay style, as in you drive to the job that you want to do, have a garage in which you store cars that you purchase and can change your clothing. The only thing that this game doesn’t incorporate is that when in navigating around the hive, you can’t use your mouse to view the surroundings instead you are forced to use the directional keys. The other thing I noticed was when first flying away from the hive with all the Pollen Jocks you needed to keep tapping a number that was shown in blue. At first I had no idea what to do since when the game explained other controls it showed the controls in yellow and this time it was just a number in blue with no explanation (or voice over) of what this number meant. Maybe I was the only one that had this issue. Other than that minor inconvenience, the game is fine. The graphics could have been a little better although this game is for kids so I’m sure most if not all won’t worry about the graphics. Near the end of the game I did get a bit bored of doing the jobs over and over again. Overall it was a good game and I’d expect that if your kids liked the movie they’ll like this game.