Product DescriptionFrom the makers of "Shrek" and "Madagascar" comes the next DreamWorks Animation film, "Bee Movie" written, produced, and starring Jerry Seinfeld. "Bee Movie" Game offers a one-of-a-kind gameplay experience, as you play Barry B. Benson in this pulse-pounding adventure from the never-before-seen perspective of a bee. Try your hand at racing cars, chasing targets, flying at high speed and more. As Barry B. Benson, you are on a journey to save the bee's production of honey that takes you to New York City and beyond. Master the hustle of the hive and venture outside the hive to navigate the hazards and excitement of the outside world. Are you fly ... er, bee enough?
Features:
- Driving fun: drive race cars, scooters, taxicabs, trucks, and more.
- Fly and chase: Fly, hover, and dive at high speed through the skies. Chase after cars and dodge traffic through the dangerous streets of New York.
- Slow down time: control and slow down time with your bee reflexes.
- Buzz and pollinate: Buzz around to cause chain reactions to occur. Use your handy Pollinator Gun to blast away dangers.
- Multiplayer: compete in multiplayer mini-games to see who dominates.
- Bonus points: win bonus points with racing, classic arcade, and puzzle games.
Customer Review: A Suprisingly Good Game!
A Surprisingly Good Game! I tend to find myself unable to stay away from games that were originally big blockbuster movies. Games like Catwoman, Batman Begins, Spiderman, etc. The Bee Movie game is a direct tie-in with the animated movie. It was only fourteen bucks on Amazon, so i just couldn't help but feel pulled into this impulse purchase. I am not gonna go into specifics of the game. But if you enjoy Mario & Crash Bandicoot games, this will be right up your alley. The graphics and visuals of the game are excellent and you feel immersed in the world of Barry Benson (Jerry Seinfeld). You literally feel transported into his world. Pick this up & add it to your library as it's a great title to have.
Okay, so that's a stupid question. Or at least it may initially sound like one. In terms of publication and distribution, and their dependency on advertisements, comics are clearly magazines by definition. Which would then make graphic novels compiled magazines... which they are clearly (I hope) not.
But the fact is that "comic book" is a dirty term in the art world. And though the work of people such as Daniel Clowes, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and too many other fine writers to mention, has done much to remedy this, the comic is still looked upon with disdain. Libraries and schools live in fear of the day that little Timmy is lured in by the colourful pictures of his first graphic novel, and vows never to read another novel again. Which is stupid, of course; the majority of those who read graphic novels are also literature lovers.
And then there are the critics. Bookworms and concerned parents feared that their beloved tomes would become obsolete with the dawn of television. Only almost a century after its conception was cinema embraced as a valuable art form. The videogames, a medium still in its infancy, is currently being subjected to the same media prejudice that faced the feel good movies of the 1920s. But whereas devotees and aficionados are willing to discuss the videogame medium, and argue as to whether it qualifies as high art, the same question is rarely focused on comics. This could be that, since the comic medium's maturity in the late sixties through to the mid-eighties, comics have been critically appreciated in a new, if not particularly bright, light.
Weary media lecturers will bore their students about the potential of "sequential art," but these academics rarely raise interest in anything other than the obvious award-winning "worthy" choices - Maus, Persepolis and the works of Scott McCloud, Harvey Pekar and Robert Crumb. All great starting points, of course, but any who dares to mention superhero books in such lessons will likely receive only scornful glares. Perhaps this is because comics, for the most part, share the shelves with that most unfairly treated of literary genres: Science Fiction and Fantasy. Works such as The Sandman, Watchmen, Strangers in Paradise and Cerebus the Aardvark are too often viewed as little more than fantastical nonsense for preoccupied adolescents. And as long as their creators continue to be imaginative and original, striving to push the boundaries of contemporary fiction, this is unlikely to change.
A friend told me not long ago that he'd read everything ever written by Alan Moore, but refused to read a graphic novel by any other author. I find it baffling that one could get so much enjoyment from the comic book medium yet have no desire to take that interest further. I wanted to tell him to read something else. Write him a list of recommendations, even.
But instead I kept my mouth shut. His loss, I figured.
Carl Doherty created http://www.holycr4p.com/ under supervision of his doctor, who conceived the criticism and categorisation of every film that Carl watches as a way of tackling his obsessive compulsive disorder. He has now watched 23 films, and is not entirely sure he liked any of them. Carl currently resides in Southend-on-Sea where he shares an abandoned warehouse with a buffy-tufted marmoset named Tautilus Samson. Together they have all sorts of adventures.
Read more of Carl's comic, graphic novel, and film related features and reviews, as well as more on Are Comics Books? at http://www.holycr4p.com/
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