Hubert the Teddy Bear: Winter Games
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| Developer(s) | Teyon |
| Publisher(s) | Teyon |
| Platform(s) | Wii (WiiWare) |
| Genre(s) | Sports, Party |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, Multi-player |
Hubert the Teddy Bear: Winter Games is a sports party game developed by Teyon for the WiiWare. It is available in the WiiWare Shop for 500 Wii Points.[1]
Gameplay
Hubert the Teddy Bear: Winter Games is a party game for kids offering 8 winter sports like snow fight, making a snowman, sledge ride, playing on icicles, fishing, running up a hill, bunny chase and Christmas tree decoration. Both a single-player and a multi-player modes are available - players can compete in the Olympiad mode for up to 16 players. The game provides 3 levels of difficulty: child, youngster and adult.[2]
Players can also customize their characters by choosing gender, giving names or changing clothes. There are 6 categories to choose from with 10 skin tints, 16 hats, 23 t-shirts, 23 pants, 9 glasses and 5 add-ons.
Games
- Sledge ride - players have to hold the Wii Remote in a vertical position and move it up and down to gather speed. The goal is to collect gifts lost by a bunny.
- Playing on icicles - 5 icicles are visible on the screen and 5 buttons on the Wii Remote and the Nunchuk are associated with them. The player's task is to repeat a heard melody as precisely as possible.
- Fishing - players have to swing the Wii Remote or the Nunchuk and push a button displayed above a fish to catch it. Otherwise a fish will escape.
- Bunny chase - players have to wave the Wii Remote and the Nunchuk to catch a bunny running in front of players. Players need to jump to evade beams on a road or push the B and the Z buttons at the same time to slide under a branch.
- Making a snowman - players have to use the Nunchuk stick to move left or right and perform gestures or to push a presented button in order to make a snowman.
- Running up a hill - players have to wave the Wii Remote and the Nunchuk to run and to move it left/right to evade snowballs. When crashing with a frozen snowball, a teddy bear loses points. When pushing the Z button on the Nunchuk, a teddy bear speeds up, smashes a regular snowball and collects gifts.
- Snow fight - players push the A button to aim, swing the Wii Remote and push the Z button on the Nunchuk to throw a snowball.
- Decorating a Christmas tree - players choose decorations by pushing the A button on the Wii Remote and hang them on the tree in a marked place.[3]
Reception
Hubert the Teddy Bear: Winter Games received an overall score of 75% from Gamer Pop,[4] and a 19/30 from Wiiloveit.com.[5]
The game received criticism for its motion controls, primarily the difficulty and fault fullness of them. PeanutButterGamer pointed out the flaw in the character naming screen. When you move the remote, the sensor can type in several letters at a time, Something he said they couldn't have missed up on, because games like legend of Zelda or Animal crossing have mastered that already. The game is often considered the "worst game you'll ever play" and " a waste of time and money."
Title screen music and graphics have ALSO been criticized. The music is very bland and so 'unfinished'. The graphics are often complained about because of the chunkiness and how it's something you would see "on the Gamecube"
To sum it all up, this game is actually full of bollocks.