CSM - There's not much to excite in Yogi Bear: The Video Game. It's nice to hear Dan Aykroyd doing the voiceovers, but beyond that, the graphics and gameplay feel very ho-hum. The Wii version has fun bits with photographing the animals when you find them, and the mini-games for building crazy vehicles in the DS version gives it momentary boosts of fun -- but in between those interesting segments, there's a lot of standard platform-jumping that, unfortunately, grows repetitive quickly and never feels all that entertaining. As a movie-based tie-in game, Yogi Bear is passable, but it never really moves beyond that.
Guardian: "The latest movie tie-in game aimed at young Wii owners is unsurprisingly being released to coincide with the new CGI film inspired by the classic Hanna-Barbera animation, based on the misadventures of Jellystone's most famous resident."
"Any small amounts of optimism towards the DS version of Yogi Bear: The Video Game can be chucked out the window along with any good memories you have of the spontaneous cartoon character. Far from being a pleasure to play, Yogi Bear: The Video Game is definitely not worth buying, regardless of your age and what your gaming tastes are." -- Wiiloveit.com
CheatCC: "With as forgettable source material as the new Yogi Bear film—which may be the most embarrassing of this type of film since Bill Murray decided to do Garfield (Justin Timberlake following The Social Network up with this is particularly sad)—the quality of any game related to it would obviously be dubious at best. And with so many other kid-friendly games available on the DS, that makes this bear particularly forgettable, even for fans. Pass."
