BEAR COUNTRY -PC Review, "Stunning graphics, easy playing, and non stop action. One of the top 10 games of our century." -Gamers Digest, "You MUST own this game!" -Hunters Quarterly, "An incredibly real experience that will keep you on the edge of your seat!" -ID Software, "Why didn't we think of this?" -Bill Gates, "I couldn't have done better myself." -God, "The perfect game!" What is all this hype that you've been hearing about Bear Country? Is this just a poor attempt at a hunting sim, you ask? Well read the reviews yourself, even some of the top magazines in the world are recommending it. Bear Country is sure to be the next DOOM with it's controversial, record breaking playability, and it's gripping first person perspective. Duke it out with all different kinds of bears, ranging from black bear to polar bear, koala bear to glacier bear, and grizzly bear to panda bear. You'll never experience anything like it! Installation: If you're reading this text file then that means you've probably already installed the game, but here's what you SHOULD have done: Place the zipped file: BEAR.ZIP in a directory by itself, and unzip the program. Read the read me file, then run bear.bat, and you're playing! Loading and Saving: You can only load and save from the Gun store, (The yellow dot on your mini- map) Once inside the store, push "S" to save your game. It will prompt you for a filename. Give it a filename, any filename. It will save your data inside the file. Then you can die, or quit "X", or whatever, and as long as you don't write again to that file, your game will be saved. Once inside the store, push "L" to load your game. It will ask you for a filename. Give it the filename of a previously saved game. It will load and you will be one square to the left of the gunstore with your saved game loaded. Quiting: Push X during gameplay. Gameplay: Use the Num-Pad for moving your aimer up, down, left or right. When your aimer goes off the screen, you will move one square in that direction on you minimap. Note: Make sure num-lock is ON! Pushto fire. Note: once you run out of ammunition, move your aimer to the grey circle in the top right corner and fire. You will be reloaded. < and >: Changing your intervals. > increases your intervals while < decreases them. The higher your intervals the more space your aimer covers with one push of the arrow keys. M: Use a medikit. Each heal 25% of you. Note: You don't have unlimited of these, and they cost Bear Points, so use them wisely. There are a few more commands, but most are relatively self-explanatory. Bear Points: You get different amounts of bear points for each bear you "bag" You can buy different items with different amounts of bear points at the store (Yellow dot) MiniMap: You are the little red dot. The Yellow dot is the gun store. The purple dots are lodges. At lodges you can push "H" and be teleported back to the left of the gunstore. The Green square is Grizzly Terrain (Medium+) The Brown Square is Black Bear Terrain (Medium) The Bright Green square is the Jungle (Begginer area) The White square is the glacier (ADVANCED AREA!) Note: Grizzly Terrain and Black Bear terrain overlap. You will find both types of bear there. Credits: A Hardcore Software production Financed by the VE6IMB corporation The sole programmer and designer: Dugely/Midnight Sun---> dugely@yahoo.com Play testers: tenelien@bigfoot.com furtherfromgod@hotmail.com VE6IMB Special Thanks go out to: VE6IMB Nowhere Man, for the use of his Nowhere utilities (Very usefull DOS utilities, E-Mail me for a copy) Questions? Comments? Suggestions? E-Mail dugely@yahoo.Com