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| Developer(s) | Rareware |
| Publisher(s) | Rareware THQ (Europe) |
| Composer(s) | Robin Beanland |
| Series | Conker |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo 64 |
| Release date(s) | NA March 5, 2001 |
| Mode(s) | Single player, Multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ELSPA: 15+[1] ESRB: M OFLC: M15+ USK: 16 |
| Media | 512Mb (64MB) cartridge |
| Input methods | Gamepad |
Conker's Bad Fur Day is a Nintendo 64 video game developed and published by Rare, and distributed by Nintendo. The game stars Conker the Squirrel, a Rare character who had previously appeared in other games marketed towards children, such as Diddy Kong Racing for the Nintendo 64 and Conker's Pocket Tales for the Game Boy Color. Marketed as an "adult" platform game, Bad Fur Day features toilet humor, graphic cartoon violence, sexual themes and several film parodies. The game received very positive critical reviews, despite its limited advertising, and earned a cult following. A remake of the game was made available on the Xbox in 2005 in the form of Conker: Live & Reloaded.
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In the single-player mode, the player takes on the role of Conker and plays the game in a free-roaming environment. Conker can duck and jump a high distance vertically, as well as jump at least twice his height in any direction. Conker can also spin his tail around quickly like a helicopter for a few seconds. Rather than give it an official-sounding name, as is the unofficial 'tradition' in the video game business, Conker just calls it the "helicoptery tail thing". This allows him to jump a little higher, navigate in the air to accurately land, and slow his descent if he is far from the ground. After a few seconds, the tail slows down, and he drops and is not able to do it again until he has landed and jumped again. Besides this, he has few other physical powers. He can swim underwater for a while until he runs out of breath, jog indefinitely and not get tired, and is strong enough to push heavy round objects, which in one of the later levels are a "big bourgeoisie boiler's brass bollocks".
Conker can eat pieces of "Anti-Gravity Chocolate" to regain lost health and incidentally his life bar is represented by six-square chocolate bars. In a parody of similar platformers with unexplained floating pickups throughout levels, they were originally created by the Professor, but he threw them out the castle window when he started a new project. Afterward, Conker can eat up to six of them. There are two types of chocolate; regenerative chocolate and one-time chocolate. One-time chocolate disappears after eaten, and doesn't reappear until Conker reenters the game world. Regenerative chocolate reappears 10 seconds after being eaten. Antigravity chocolate does not provide protection against certain things, such as falls from especially high heights, being hit by spinning blades, or being dismembered in a grinder. However, it does protect against being hit with a heavy object from above, such as a large dollop of feces.
Conker has a limited number of lives. The ability to do this in the context of the game is explained in a cutscene the first time that Conker dies; according to the game, squirrels have as many lives as "they think they can get away with," similar to cats, and the Grim Reaper is willing to grant Conker another chance if he picks up squirrel tails.
"Context-sensitive Zones" allow Conker to do things he could not normally do; he usually pulls a far-too-big thing out of his far-too-small pocket, although sometimes he turns into an anvil and slams into the ground. Zones under beer kegs can give him "drunken" abilities as well. For instance, he is able to stagger around and urinate on stone people and fire imps. Although most zones only work once, some can be used more than once, or even indefinitely. However, most of the context zones lose their purpose after being utilized, even if they are continuously usable. These context-sensitive areas usually take the form of "B-button pads", and sometimes activate while Conker is in mid-air. However, they are always activated by a press of the B button. A light bulb appears over Conker's head when he is in a context-sensitive zone.
Much of the gameplay in Conker's Bad Fur Day features parodies of various movies and games, such as Reservoir Dogs and Super Mario 64.
The game has a lot of strong language in it, but only censors a few words, with the subtitles of the speech containing the word being flashing symbols in red, like skulls, spirals and lightning. More words are censored in the Xbox remake.
Conker's Bad Fur Day has a multiplayer option as well, featuring seven different minigames: Beach, Raptor, Heist, Death Match, War, Tank, and Race. It also has eight different levels, one for each mode. Health is measured in chocolates just as in the single player mode. In Beach, the player controls either the Frenchies or the Tediz. As the Frenchies, the player must guide a french refugee up through the beach and into a waiting escape vehicle without getting killed by the Tediz. The Tediz fire down on the Frenchies from three different fixed positions located above the escape vehicles, utilizing either a sniper rifle, a bazooka, or a mounted machine gun in order to prevent the refugee's evacuation. The Frenchies are unarmed, but can retaliate by setting off a detonator switch, blowing up the Tediz who are preventing their escape and giving them a window of time to make the beach run uncontested. Though in any case, as the Sergeant, who has gotten the Frenchies to the beach, warns in the intro cutscene, within a several seconds, if one of the Frenchies does not get killed by the Tediz or escape, they will be instantly killed by an off-map laser weapon, thus forcing Frenchies to move quickly and not wait too long.
Raptor involves up to two players playing as Velociraptors who are trying to feed a baby dinosaur, while the cavemen want to steal the eggs for breakfast. Heist involves a parody of Reservoir Dogs in the intro. Four teams (either two per team or one player each, depending on how the game is set up)--Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow—all take place in the robbing of the Feral Reserve Bank. The objective is to retrieve cash bags from the center of the level and run it all the way back to their corresponding vault without being damaged (in which case they lose the bag and it returns to the center). War can either be a large Team Deathmatch or Capture the Flag with all of the game's weapons scattered between each level. Each level has two bases, a large field between them, each with multiple access points and places for different tactics for example sewers where a gas canister can be planted to kill all unprotected soldiers in Total War (Deathmatch) or Sniper Towers.
Tank uses a tank from the Campaign. Players all spawn in their own bunker and go around a large canyon with optional, pickup upgrades and battle to the death. Players have the option of also grabbing a gas canister, much like in War, and returning to their bunker where they are protected. Race is simply the multiplayer version of a minigame within Single Player. Here, players must go around a volcano with their hoverboards. They can attack other players and, if not careful, crash into walls and die. The first one to make a certain amount of laps, determined before the start of the game, or is the last man standing wins. Deathmatch has all of the multiplayer maps available to play in, except for the ones used in Beach, Tank, and Race.
The story opens with a prologue, spoofing the opening scene of A Clockwork Orange, where a miserable Conker tells the player that he is now "king of all the land", and begins to tell the story of the game.
The morning after a night of binge drinking with his friends, Conker awakes to find himself lost in an unfamiliar land with a terrible hangover. Having no other choice, he begins a long journey with the goal of returning home to his girlfriend, Berri. Meanwhile, the Panther King, ruler of the land that Conker is lost in, finds that his throne-side table is missing its fourth leg when he accidentally spills his milk because of it. Not knowing what to do about this problem, he has a meeting with Professor Von Kripplespak, a legless mad scientist weasel that the king keeps as a right-hand servant. Kripplespak suggests the use of a red squirrel as the fourth leg for his table, and heeding this advice, the Panther King orders his minions to search for one and capture it. In the meantime, Kripplespak plots to assassinate the king and escape.[2]
As Conker searches for his way home, he finds himself embroiled in a series of increasingly absurd and oftentimes dangerous situations, including having to recover a bee hive from some enormous wasps, confronting a giant opera-singing pile of feces, being turned into a bat by a vampire, and even getting drafted into a war between grey squirrels and a nazi-like race of teddy bears simply known as the "Tediz". However, Conker keeps managing to find wads of cash scattered throughout the land, and in his desire to find them all, he is sidetracked from his ultimate goal of returning home.
While this is occurring, Don Weaso, head of the Weasel Mafia, sends one of his henchmen to abduct Berri from her home, with the intention of using her as an exotic dancer for his nightclub.
In the final chapter of the game, Berri and Conker are enlisted by Don Weaso to rob a bank. When they get into the vault, they find many wads of cash, enough to make them both millionaires. Conker is overwhelmed with excitement at this development; however, the Panther King then appears before them both, revealing that the entire bank scene was an elaborate trap set by him and Don Weaso in order to capture Conker. Hearing this, Berri defiantly stands up to them in defense of Conker, but Don Weaso shortly opens fire on her with a machine gun, killing her. Just as all hope seems lost for Conker, a Xenomorph bursts out of the Panther King's chest, killing him instantly. In the ensuing confusion, Don Weaso sneaks off and escapes unseen. Kripplespak reveals that the alien is one of his creations, and that he had planned all along to use this opportunity to kill the king and escape, expressing hatred for the castle's lack of technology. On that note, he activates the vault's machinery, revealing it to be a spaceship that immediately launches into low orbit. Naming the alien "Heinrich", he instructs it to attack and kill Conker as revenge for destroying the Tediz, which were also his creations. However, Conker thinks fast and pulls a switch that opens an air lock, pulling Von Kripplespak into the vacuum of space. Berri's body is sucked into space as well.
Using an armored robotic suit found in the vault, Conker throws the xenomorph out of the airlock. However, it returns and lunges at him again, and as it does so, the entire game suddenly freezes. Exiting the suit, Conker expresses disbelief at the fact that Rare apparently did not beta test the game properly, and breaks the fourth wall to ask some software engineers to assist him. A programmer immediately responds to him, communicating to Conker with a command line. Entering the game's debug mode, Conker asks the programmer to spawn a selection of weapons, from which he draws a katana. He then asks the programmer to transport them to the Panther King's throne room and unfreeze the game. Conker then decapitates Heinrich, and is crowned the new king of the land by the characters who shortly rush into the room. However, Conker states that he doesn't really want to be king because he was supposed to go home, and then comes to the grim realization that Berri is still dead. He attempts to ask the programmers to bring her back to life, but realizes that they have already left.
Conker then speaks to the player in a closing monologue, in which he discusses what it means to appreciate what one already has instead of being overcome with desire and envy for superficially better circumstances, stating that "the grass is always greener, and you don't really know what it is you have until it's gone."
After the credits, Conker returns to the pub seen at the beginning of the game, alone and completely miserable. After drowning his sorrows in scotch whisky, Conker drunkenly stumbles off into the stormy night once again, this time walking in the direction opposite from the one he took previously. His fate, this time, remains unknown.
Conker's Bad Fur Day was originally going to be titled Conker's Quest and was later titled Twelve Tales: Conker 64. Early screenshots suggested the game would feature cute characters and colorful settings. Rare had a long history of making games of this sort, such as Banjo-Kazooie and Diddy Kong Racing, and at first Conker did not appear to be any different. However, Rare started to fear that the game would simply get lost in the platforming crowd, and critical mockery of "yet another cute platformer" caused the original game to be drastically overhauled. When the announcement was made that Conker would be retooled into a "controversial" game with lots of scatological humor many did not initially believe it, and assumed the press release was an April Fools' Day joke. However, as the months went on, the change quickly was understood to be very real and permanent. Inspired by South Park, the game's producer, Chris Seavor, lobbied to revamp the graphics and attitude, and it transformed into Bad Fur Day. Seavor himself voiced Conker in this new version, along with all the male characters in the game except the Great Mighty Poo and the Fairy Panther King, who were both voiced by Chris Marlow. Louise Ridgeway voiced all the female characters (excluding Mrs Bee and the Lady Cog) in the game. The game was also different from the Banjo series and Donkey Kong 64 in relying far less on collecting a variety of items. When items were required they were usually to solve a puzzle in the immediate area, resulting in a cash reward, aiding access to other areas. Moves were also simplified by having "context sensitive" buttons.
The promotional videos and pictures from Electronic Entertainment Expo (at the time when the game was still called Twelve Tales) revealed objects and characters which have influenced the released game. Objects such as the flower and mushroom sprites were seen in the promotional video and a character closely resembling Buga the Knut was seen chasing Conker (who was wearing a knight's helmet) in a promotional picture. Conker's Bad Fur Day is considerably a far different game from the original plans despite the small influences it had on the release game.
The game's original ending was very dark. It involved Conker walking up to a mirror in the pub, bursting into tears, pulling out a gun and aiming it at his head. The screen would fade out, and a gunshot is heard, indicating that Conker had committed suicide. This ending was dumped because "It didn't spot much for a sequel." When Chris Seavor was asked about a new Conker game, he said it would focus entirely on the SHC/Tediz war, and Conker would be killed in the first scene.
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| GamePro | 5 of 5 |
| Game Critics | 6 of 10[3] |
| Game Revolution | Grade B+[4] |
| GameSpot | 9.3 of 10[5] |
| IGN | 9.9 of 10[6] |
| Electronic Gaming Monthly | 8.33 of 10 |
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| Game Rankings | 89% (based on 34 reviews)[7] |
| Metacritic | 92% (based on 19 reviews)[8] |
After the release of Conker's Bad Fur Day, many publications and websites declared the graphics were the best to date on the N64, even better than Perfect Dark[9]. IGN's Matt Casamassina awarded a rating of 9.9 out of 10, commenting, "...if the Conker team is able to do this on Nintendo 64, what in the f**k will these guys be capable of achieving on GameCube?"[10]. The title included a number of technical effects that gamers were not yet used to seeing. The engine featured dynamic shadowing, colored lighting, and other visual effects which were still fairly rare at the time; large areas with a long draw distance and no distance fog, a rarity among Nintendo 64 games; detailed facial animations, including lip syncing, at a time when the vast majority of characters in 3D games had static or minimally animated faces, and individually rendered fingers on some characters, rather than the standard "brick." However, with all of these graphical effects, the game's frame rate sometimes suffered. On the other hand, Game Revolution's Johnny Liu was not very satisfied and gave the game a B+, criticizing its simplistic action, short length and linear nature[4].
Rare had a close relationship with Nintendo, and the developer is famed for squeezing as much performance as possible out of a console. Conker's Bad Fur Day was one of the last games published for the Nintendo 64, and Rare put all of their previous developing experience, from ten published Nintendo 64 games, into the project.
Also notable was the game's large and diverse vocal track, which easily outnumbered that of other voiced N64 games, such as Star Fox 64. No other N64 title has come close to the amount of recorded dialog in Conker's Bad Fur Day, which is considered to be a technological miracle due to the N64 cartridge constraints. The soundtrack is also notable for its two or three different remixes of specific songs that change depending on the context, such as a new mission or change in scenery; for example the background music for Barn Boys is the same as the area preceding it, but is performed by banjos instead of a string ensemble. It won the 2001 BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Award for sound. In March 2009, the Official Nintendo Magazine placed Conker's Bad Fur Day at Number 97 in their 100 Greatest Nintendo Games Ever list.[11]
Even though the game fared well with critics in both the UK and US, it sold worse than expected, partly due to its prohibitively high cost and release in early 2001. A year later, the Nintendo 64 was discontinued after the release of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, yielding to the new GameCube system.
Nintendo of America refused to even acknowledge the game in its Nintendo Power publication except for the playback in volume #230, and all advertising in the U.S. was limited to late-night cable television and ads in Playboy. In other regions, the advertising was far less limited. Despite all of these factors, the game has enjoyed a cult following, actually growing in popularity despite its age.
GameTrailers has stated Conker's Bad Fur Day as the #1 funniest game ever on their "Top Ten Funniest Games".[12]
After the release of Conker's Bad Fur Day, Rare began production on a new Conker game initially named, 'Conker's Other Bad Day', but may have been changed to incorporate a subtitle, 'Getting Medieval'.[13] But in 2002 Microsoft bought Rare from Nintendo, so instead of finishing and releasing the game, Rare remade Conker's Bad Fur Day for the Xbox, naming it, Conker: Live and Reloaded. On September 16, 2008 it was announced that Microsoft cancelled the game Rare was working on, and in a later interview, some of Rare's staff members hinted at what might have been.[14] A petition has been started for Microsoft to jumpstart the project and let Rare complete the game.[15]
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| Developer(s) | Rare |
| Publisher(s) | Microsoft Game Studios |
| Platform(s) | Xbox |
| Release date(s) | JP June 30, 2005 NA June 21, 2005[16] PAL June 24, 2005 |
| Genre(s) | Platformer, third-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | BBFC: 15[17] CERO: D ESRB: M OFLC: MA15+ PEGI: 16+ |
| Media | DVD |
A remake of Conker's Bad Fur Day titled Conker: Live & Reloaded was released in 2005 for the Xbox console. It includes improvements to graphics and sound with a slight addition to story at the training level. The game retains the single player mode of the original but dumped the original multiplayer modes in favor of a revamped Xbox Live multiplayer featuring an entirely new weapons set and gameplay mechanics. Unlike Bad Fur Day, it was also released in Japan.
The Multiplayer in Live & Reloaded uses the same third-person perspective as the single player game. Multiplayer consists of different game modes such as Capture the Flag or the standard Deathmatch modes. The player may participate as a member of the SHC or the Tediz. As well as a choice of soldier, the game has a choice of "classes" which significantly affect play style.[18]
Each class has its own special equipment, special abilities, and physical capabilities; each class being designed for a distinct purpose. They are also designed to have advantages against certain classes while being vulnerable to others. For example, the Thermophile's flamethrower inflicts extreme damage on Sneakers and Long Rangers, who have less health, but is virtually useless against the high-vitality Demolisher. Each class comes equipped with a primary weapon with unlimited ammunition, (although reloading of the weapon is still required), a limited stock of grenades, and at least one special ability. Scattered throughout the arenas are yellow Upgrade Orbs, which grant a player more equipment and abilities when obtained. A player loses his upgrade orb upon death, allowing another player to obtain it.
The game was originally titled Conker: Live and Uncut and featured a completely uncensored single player experience. At some point during the development of the game, this was changed and the game was released with heavy censorship.[19] Even minor obscenities which were present in the original N64 version were censored. This drew heavy criticism from fans of the original, especially as it detracted from comedic highlights such as the song in the Sloprano chapter. This song was also censored on the soundtrack, but Rare has the uncensored Xbox version of the song on their website.[20]
Like the original, the game was rated M by the ESRB and carried warnings about its content as well as Rare's promotional spoof warnings that advertised the fact that the content of the game was explicitly 'adult'. The audio files on the game disc are censored to begin with and contain the bleeps, indicating that they are not censored by the game engine.
Conker:Live and Reloaded was praised by critics for its brilliantly colored graphics.[21][22] The game was awarded IGN's "Best of E3 2004" and "Best of E3 2005" in the category of "Best Graphics" for X-Box.[23][24] However it was criticized for changes to the singleplayer campaign compared to the original.
The multiplayer mode (new in this version of the game) remained popular well into 2007 (Over a year and a half from its release) when it remained in the top 10 most played online titles for its platform.[25]
Conker: Live and Reloaded scored a 78/100 on Metacritic.[26]
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Conker: Well … there I am … Conker the king, king of all the land! Who'd of thought that? "But how did it come ta this?", I hear ya say. "And who are those strange fellows that surround my throne?", that you also say. Well, it's a long story. Come closer, and I'll tell ya.
It all started … yesterday, and what a day that was. It's what I call … A Bad Fur Day.
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| System(s) | Nintendo 64, Xbox |
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Conker's Bad Fur Day is a Nintendo 64 video game made by Rare that was marketed as an "adult" platform game. The main character is Conker the Squirrel, who had previously appeared in games marketed towards children, such as Diddy Kong Racing for the N64 and Conker's Pocket Tales for the Game Boy Color. Conker's Bad Fur Day features scatological humor, cartoonish violence and a wide variety of parodies.
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| Developer(s) | Rare |
| Publisher(s) | Rare |
| Release date | March 4, 2001 |
| Genre | 3D platformer |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Age rating(s) | ESRB: M |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo 64 |
| Media | 64-megabit cartridge |
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Conker's Bad Fur Day is a Nintendo 64 video game made by Rareware that was marketed as an "adult" platformer. It stars Conker the Squirrel, a Rare character who has appeared in other games, such as Diddy Kong Racing for the N64 and Conker's Pocket Tales for the Game Boy Color. Bad Fur Day featured scatological humor, cartoonish violence and a penchant for movie parodies. A remake was later released 4 years later for the Xbox: Conker: Live and Reloaded.
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In the single-player mode, the player takes on the role of Conker and plays the game in a free-roaming environment. Conker can duck and jump a high distance vertically, as well as jump at least twice his height in any direction. Conker can also spin his tail around quickly like a helicopter for a few seconds. Rather than give it an official-sounding name, as is the unofficial 'tradition' in the video game business, Conker just calls it the "Helicoptery tail-thing". This allows him to jump a little higher, navigate in the air to accurately land, and slow his descent if he's far from the ground. After a few seconds, the tail slows down, and he drops and isn't able to do it again until he's landed and jumped again. Besides this, he has few other physical powers. He can swim underwater for a while until he runs out of breath, jog indefinitely and not get tired, and is strong enough to push heavy round objects, which in one of the later levels are a "big bourgeoisie boiler's brass bollocks".
Conker can eat pieces of "Anti-Gravity Chocolate" to regain lost health. In a parody of similar platformers with unexplained floating pickups throughout levels, they were originally created by the Professor, but he threw them out the castle window when he started a new project.[1] Afterward, Conker can eat up to six of them. There are two types of chocolate; regenerative chocolate and one-time chocolate. One-time chocolate disappears after eaten, and doesn't re-appear until Conker exits then re-enters the world. Regenerative chocolate re-appears 10 seconds after being eaten, apparently out of thin air. Antigravity chocolate does not provide protection against certain things, such as falls from especially high heights, being severed in two by spinning blades, or being dismembered in a grinder. However, it does protect against being hit with a heavy object from above, such as a large dollop of poo.
"Context Zones" allow Conker to do things he couldn't normally do outside Context Zones; he usually pulls a [far-too-big thing out of his far-too-small pocket], although sometimes he turns into an anvil and slams into the ground. B-button pads under barrels of beer can give him "drunken" abilities as well (he is able to stagger around and urinate). Although most Context Zones only work once, some can be used more than once, or even indefinitely. However, most of the context zones lose their purpose after being utilized, even if they are continuously usable. These Context Zones usually take the form of "B-button pads", and sometimes activate while Conker is in mid-air. However, they are always evident by a light bulb appearing above Conker's head with a "ting!" noise and can be activated by a press of the B button.
Much of the gameplay in Conker's Bad Fur Day features parodies of various movies, including The Terminator, Reservoir Dogs, Dracula, The Wizard of Oz, The Untouchables, The Exorcist, Star Wars, Apocalypse Now, A Clockwork Orange, Blue Velvet, Alien, Aliens, Full Metal Jacket, The Matrix, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Scarface, Jaws, and Saving Private Ryan as well as games like Wolfenstein 3D, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and Super Mario 64.
The game has a lot of strong language in it, but only censors the f word with a beep, with the subtitles of the speech containing the word being flashing symbols in red, like skulls and lightning. Some signposts include a modified word, such as "feck".
Conker's Bad Fur Day features several different forms of multiplayer.
"Death Match" is a standard kill-everyone-else round, determinable by time or amount of lives. The round can be played in every multiplayer arena (except "Race and Tank") and also a unique-to-this-variant arena called Bunker, which features several traps and special areas. "War" features the Squirrels-Tediz war from the single-player game. The basis of this mode was upgraded in Conker: Live and Reloaded, becoming the only multiplayer function in that game. The mode is divided into two portions: in "Total War", The Squirrels and Tediz have occupied two sides of a symmetrical fortress, which features sniper towers and a sewer level. Using a poison gas canister, the objective is to kill as many of the opposition as humanly possible, within the time limit or until their lives run out. The poison gas isn't essential, but advisable. The highest official documented score for a "Total War" game is 100 to 5 in 10 minutes. The 100 points were achieved by two Tediz against 8 Squirrels on the Bastard difficulty. The other portion of the "War" mode is "Colors", a more conventional style also referred to as "Capture the Flag". Once again, both forces have taken up a side of the battlefield, though it is now asymmetrical (but the bases are still the same in architectural design), and the aim is to steal the enemy flag from their base and escape to the player's own.
In "Heist" Don Weaso from the game continuity is organizing a heist from the bank with four colored teams involved. The opening cutscene heavily parodies Reservoir Dogs, right up to the naming of the four weasels he enlists to pull off the job: Mr. Blue, Mr. Red, Mr. Yellow and Mr. Green. Although really a four-person every-man-for-himself game, it can also be modified to two weasels on each team. The teams infiltrate the poorly-guarded vault and attempt to steal the moneybag. As each colour wants to please the boss, the teams are pitted against each other. In "Raptor", the cavemen are in the mood for raptor eggs, and the raptors are in the mood for fresh caveman. Owing to the obvious advantage, the raptor team can only have a maximum of two raptors, whereas the cavemen can have a team of up to eight.
In "Beach", the Frenchies (squirrels) are attempting to get to Paris, but the Tediz have the coast guarded. The Colors map is changed, with the squirrel base replaced by a beach. The Frenchies must get to the tunnels under the Tediz base within 90 seconds each to remain safe; when the time limit expires, they get hit by a laser beam. The Tediz goal is simple: kill Frenchies. And they have an arsenal for it as well: Turret Gun, Bazooka and Sniper Rifle. The only way for the Frenchies to dispatch their enemies is the dynamite plunger, located where the bazooka is in Colours.
The "Race" mode is similar to the Race portion of the single player game, in which each player must navigate the lava river on the floating surfboards and cross the finish line first. Hitting each other with weapons is perfectly suitable, as is the various upgrades (missiles and nitro-boosts) spread around the course. "Tank" is the only multiplayer variant to feature the tank, each player must drive around and kill each other. Similar to "Total War" is the poison gas option, and similar to "Race" is the various upgrades around the course.
The opening scene shows Conker as an angry king, sitting miserably on a throne with a cup of milk in his hand. The throne is surrounded by a number of bizarre characters. Conker tells the audience that it is a long story and starts telling the tale from the beginning. The opening is a parody of the classic film, A Clockwork Orange, right down to the music which is the theme from the movie. The next scene shows Berri, Conker's shapely girlfriend, doing aerobics. Someone is calling her on the phone, but she does not notice because of her earphones. The person on the line is actually Conker, who explains that he is coming home late because his friends are going out to fight in some war and Conker is going to party with them before they leave. Conker eventually becomes so drunk that he throws up near a monk on the way out of the Cock & Plucker bar and staggers off down the path opposite the way home. Meanwhile, in a foreboding castle, the Panther King attempts to enjoy a full glass of milk, but his broken sidetable causes the partially-filled glass to tumble over, enraging the king.
The next day, Conker awakes in the middle of nowhere with a severe hangover. Conker asks a nearby scarecrow named Birdy for help, but instead learns of "Context-Sensitive Buttons", buttons that give Conker just what he needs at that moment in time (currently an Alka-Seltzer). As Conker gets past a giant gargoyle with the help of a frying pan and some dynamite, the Panther King summons Ze Professor into his throne room to observe his table to discover the cause of the spilt milk. In the back room, Ze Professor throws a fit over the King's stuck-up attitude and knocks a piece of "Anti-Gravity Chocolate" out of a window in his tizzy.The chocolate lands in front of Conker, who uses this chocolate as a source of energy.
Conker comes across a forlorn Queen Bee who sobs over the loss of her hive to a trio of wasps. Conker successfully retrieves the hive, while the Queen Bee uses the hive's artillery to wipe out the wasps that stole the hive. The Queen Bee thanks Conker for this contribution to the Bee community, and rewards him with a talking wad of cash. Birdy takes this to his advantage and sells Conker an ambiguous manual for the cash prize.The manual teaches Conker how to use a slingshot, which he uses to kill a group of Liverpudlian dung beetles who wants to beat him up.
As Conker enters a barnyard area, Ze Professor toils over an army of Nazi teddy bears that'll supposedly usurp the Panther King. After feeding a flatulent rat so much cheese that it explodes, Conker ventures into a barn occupied by sentient hay piles. Conker's entrance is not taken lightly by the barn's pitchfork (named Franky), who is pressured into kicking Conker's ass (as a Thief, to steal Franky the pitchfork, paintpot and paintbrush) by the barn's paintpot and paintbrush. Franky's attempt at eliminating Conker causes him to accidentally kill all of the hay piles in the barn. The paintpot and paintbrush berate Franky's ass-kicking abilities and convince Franky to hang himself, laughing at his attempt in doing so. With Franky out of commission, Conker leaves the barn, allowing a Haybot to fulfill his goal of wandering around aimlessly. After helping a homeless King Bee "pollinate" a big-breasted sunflower, Conker frees Franky from his noose and befriends him. Together, they fight and defeat the Haybot.
As Conker tries to find another way home, Ze Professor announces to the Panther King that a red squirrel is needed to fill in the gap in his sidetable, causing the Panther King to send his guards out to fetch him a red squirrel. Meanwhile, Conker comes across Poo Cabin, where a dung beetle, assuming that Conker's looking for some poo, sends Conker off to feed a trio of cows a vat of prune juice, all the while avoiding an angry bull. The sheer amount of poo allows Conker to create a number of poo balls that dispose of a few guards, allowing him to drain a nearby lake. The hole in the lake leads Conker to Bats Tower, where a group of blue-blooded catfish request that Conker dispose of a vicious dogfish who has stolen their valuables, with the promise of ten percent of their cash. Upon sneaking into Bats Tower, Conker meets a cog with two personalities, one of which is implied to be homosexual, who sends Conker off to find the other cogs. The combined power of the returned cogs shortens the dogfish's leash drastically, after which the female cogs get revenge on the heterosexual personality of the cog (a punishment which the homosexual side seems to enjoy) and leave for the Caribbean. Upon returning from Bats Tower, the catfish open the safe for Conker, but the wad of money runs away from him. When Conker pursues the money, he comes across a group of wasted fire imps, whom Conker disposes of by inebriating himself and urinating on the imps, extinguishing them. The imps fight back by piloting a bourgeois, big-bollocked boiler, whom Conker defeats by repeatedly striking its testicles. When Conker returns to the catfish with the money, he discovers that they aren't as rich as they have implied themselves to be. Just as Conker claims all of their money, the dogfish breaks free from its leash and kills the catfish one by one. Conker is able to flee the dogfish and make a few extra bucks.
When Conker ventures into Poo Mountain, a dung beetle begs him to leave, telling him a story about how his two friends were lost to a monster in the mountain. All of a sudden, a booming voice demands Conker to bring it some sweet corn. When this wish is fulfilled, a giant opera-singing pile of feces emerges, introducing itself as the Great Mighty Poo, and declares that it's going to "throw [its] shit" at Conker. Conker battles the beast by tossing giant rolls of toilet paper whenever it tries to sing a note. Eventually, the Great Mighty Poo sings so loudly that it breaks a nearby glass wall hiding a giant chain. When Conker pulls this chain, the Great Mighty Poo is flushed, ending its threat. Conker then wanders into the Great Mighty Poo's former hole to see where it leads.
Meanwhile, Berri is knocked unconscious and kidnapped by a mysterious rock creature. As this is happening, Conker discovers a prehistoric world and manages to bypass a couple of the Panther King's guards by passing himself off as an elephant. In the prehistoric area, Conker hatches, befriends, and eventually sacrifices an infant Tyrannosaurus Rex to a T-Rex statue, whom Conker then causes to sneeze by pouring pepper into its nostrils, killing a nearby caveman. When Conker steals the dead caveman's hat to blend in with the other cavemen, he convinces the other cavemen into beating the other rock creatures in the area while he goes to the Rock Solid club. While getting hammered, he discovers that Berri is in the same club, but Berri doesn't recognize him with his caveman hat. When Conker attempts to follow her, a rock creature stops him, citing that he needs to go see "the boss" before going any further. The boss, better known as Don Weaso, gives Conker a job: to exterminate the Uga Cavemen, whom the Don feels are out of place in this ecosystem and are "on [his] patch", with a bomb. Conker tosses the bomb into an area that floods a large part of the prehistoric world with lava, boiling most of the cavemen. When Conker succeeds in flooding the Ugas away, he is mugged by a group of delinquent cavemen, and must race them in lava surfboarding to get his money back (of course they ride on anti gravity or "hover" boards, which is an anachronism in the prehistoric world). Afterwards, Conker is tossed into a Colosseum-style arena, with hundreds of cavemen watching. The leader, Buga the Knut, catches sight of Conker, and releases Fangy, a ferocious raptor, to devour him as to entertain the audience. As Conker entertains the audience, Buga is convinced into facing Conker himself and proving that no one's "boner" is bigger than his. After taking a few chunks out of Buga's buttocks, Fangy and Conker reveal Buga's "very small willy". The sheer humiliation causes Buga to flee the stadium, never to return. Afterwards, Conker departs with Fangy and hits on Jugga before leaving the dinosaur world.
After helping the Queen Bee get her hive back once again, Conker decides to take another route home. This time, he goes to the center of the main hub (called "Windy" in the game), and after getting past several viscous earthworms which bite and throw him (at the top is the windmill, which is later destroyed by Private Rodent). At the top Conker meets "Mr. Barrel," whom he has to pay an untold yet large sum of money. (Unless all the other previous chapters are complete, Conker will not have enough money to afford Barrel's service). Riding the barrel, Conker crushes the earthworms and destroys a boarded-up hole (thus "killing" Mr. Barrel). Conker is knocked out until the night, when it becomes dark. Following this route, Conker arrives at a pier and finds an ornery midget Grim Reaper named Gregg (whom he also meets during his first death, where he--Gregg--explains that by obtaining "tails" Conker receives second chances, or in gaming terms "lives") trying to kill a bunch of catfish. Gregg reveals to Conker that one of his rich (and undead) ancestors lives in the castle in the horizon, and gives him a shotgun that'll dispose of any zombies encountered along the way. At the castle, Conker is greeted by the Count, who treats him to sustenance and eventually turns him into a bat when villagers start braying at the door. The Count reveals that he is Conker's great, great, great, great, great grandfather, and gives him the task of fetching the invading villagers and putting them in the Count's grinder so that he can feed on their blood. Conker performs this by defecating on the villagers and blinding them as to make this job easier. Once the Count has consumed enough blood, he becomes so heavy that the rope he is hanging from snaps, causing him to fall into his own grinder and turning Conker back into a squirrel. He tries leaving the castle but now it's locked in with a bunch of undead. After finding the keys, Conker rides the barrel back to the Windy area, just to hear about the Tediz War.
At the war site, Conker walks in just to find a plane crash right before his eyes. The army Sergeant talks to Conker about joining the army for being a survivor of the atrocious atrocity that crashed in front of them. He tells Conker to clear the way so that the troops can go to the war, and that the water has an electric eel and some things (generators) in it. Once activating the "things" with the eel, Conker opens a bathroom door, only to find a guy carrying TNT with a bathroom problem; he leads this person and several of his clones to the site of the atrocious atrocity and blows them up to get rid of it. Conker is then knocked unconscious by the Sergeant and wakes up in uniform on a boat as part of a force invading the Tediz island. Parodying Saving Private Ryan, Conker runs up the beach to meet another soldier as the sole survivor. After witnessing his death, Conker takes his helmet, two SMGs (sub machine guns) and invades the Tediz fortress. After killing several Tediz, he enters a room with 12 "doctors" which throw syringes at him. Near the exit, he sees two switches and a captured squirrel tied to a chair. The soldier asks to be freed, and no matter which switch is pulled he will be electrocuted and seem dead (although it turns out he's still alive--thus the Monty Python Parody when he says "I'm not quite dead"). The other switch opens the door to the outside area, where Conker has to kill several Tediz, destroy an enormous lock on a giant door, and save a small (somewhat nerdy) squirrel named "Private Rodent," who has a special armor that makes him (quite literally) invincible. After going through a room filled with chemical warfare and mines, he pulls a switch which floods the room in toxic chemicals but opens the door outside. In the next area, Conker encounters a tower with a large machine gun turret mounted on top of it. After rolling over Tediz carrying grenades, dropping steel bridges by dropping from the air as an anvil, and destroying the tower's bases (which destroys the entire tower) Conker is able to abandon the tank and enter a new area. Conker finds himself in a cavern-like area with a large base-like area in the middle and places to hide. Conker meets a little girl, who warns him about missile-carrying (possibly nuclear) submarines. After destroying them with a rocket launcher, Conker goes to save the Little Girl. Her head turns and reveals cat-like eyes, and the silo-like area below her opens as the Tediz "Experiment" is revealed: the giant upper-body of a Teddy with a spider-like body and the Little Girl as a puppet (who serves as the brain and the Teddy as the brawn). Rodent arrives in the tank, and Conker takes over the controls. He first destroys the "Experiment's" giant gatling guns, followed by laser cannons and missile launchers. He must also shoot the Little Girl puppet from the Teddy, which opens the back area of his lower body (possibly his butt). After pumping tank shells into it, the Tediz Experiment is killed and the Little Girl Puppet starts the countdown to bomb that destroys the base. (During this time, Private Rodent is also considered dead). With roughly 4:30, Conker must escape the base and meet with the surviving Squirrels. Prior to Conker's arrival, the Sergeant was preparing to leave but told the hovercraft-driver to wait until the last man (Conker) made it on safely. Conker then had time to sleep, and woke up to witness the destruction of the Tedizs' base as the Sergeant expressed his discontent with generals managing wars. After this, Private Rodent is also seen flying
After finding the windmill in Windy to be destroyed (by Rodent's landing), Conker makes his way to the previous inaccessible "Feral Reserve Bank". There, he meets Don Weaso who is at first irritated because Conker never left town after detonating the bomb, but nonetheless enlists Conker for another job: this time a bank job. Conker is finally reunited with Berri, who is also in on this job. During this time, Conker also only agrees to do the job under one condition: if he gets a "cool" black attire and sunglasses, similar to Berri's. After a Matrix parody, Conker and Berri find themselves in the vault. After gathering all the money, Conker is a millionaire, but shortly thereafter the Panther King appears and reveals that the bank job was merely a plot to bring Conker to him. In the confusion, Don Weaso shoots Berri, killing her. Before Panther King can use Conker as a table leg Ze Professor's xenomorph pops out of Panther King's chest, killing him, and the bank vault reveals to be a space ship and blasts into space. In there, Conker pulls a switch which opens the airlock, pulling the professor out as he has to wear a space suit (much similar to the Power Loader equipment used in Aliens) in order to battle the xenomorph that, he has to punch it several times, grab it by its tail (thus the Super Mario 64 parody with Bowser) and throwing out the Xenomorph out the window multiple times, is about to kill Conker when the game freezes. Conker then uses this opportunity to ask for weapons from the game programmers (he also uses this opportunity to return to the Panther King's Throne Room) and, selecting a sword, slashes off the xenomorph's head. Upon killing the xenomorph, Conker is crowned king of all the land. However, he does not want to be the king. He also realizes he forgot to ask the programmers to bring Berri back to life. However, the programmers are gone. Conker is forced to live with the power forced upon him. The game ends similar to how it began--Conker goes to the bar and, high as a kite, walks away saying "Doesn't look too good tonight"--the exact same line he said in the beginning of the game.
Conker's Bad Fur Day was originally going to be titled Conker's Quest and then Twelve Tails: Conker 64. Early screenshots suggested the game would be targeted at younger children, and feature cute characters and colorful settings. Rareware had a long history of making games of this sort, such as Banjo Kazooie and Diddy Kong Racing, and at first Conker did not appear to be any different. However, the original kid-targeted game was drastically overhauled when critical mockery of it became too much. When the announcment was made that Conker would be re-tooled into an "adult" game with lots of scatological humor many did not initially believe it, and assumed the press release was an April Fool's Day joke. However, as the months went on the change quickly was understood to be very real and permanent. Inspired by South Park, the game's producer Chris Seavor lobbied to revamp the graphics and attitude, and it transformed into the adult Bad Fur Day. Seavor would actually go on to voice Conker in this new version.
Even though this game did well in both the United Kingdom and United States, it fared worse than expected, in part because of its early 2001 release: a year later, the Nintendo 64 was discontinued after the release of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3. Another factor was Nintendo's fear that the game would shatter their family friendly image. Even though it was to be published by Rare themselves, Nintendo felt that parents might accidently buy the game because of the cartoon squirrel who had appeared in other, kid-friendly games, and not realize it was intended for the 17-and-up crowd. As the image of the game's box above illustrates, Nintendo demanded the box feature a larger-than-usual "M for Mature" rating graphic, as well as a disclaimer "warning this game is not for anyone under 17"- both highly unprecedented moves that signify the company's fears. Nintendo of America refused to even acknowledge the game in their Nintendo Power publication, and all advertising was limited to late-night cable television and ads in Playboy.
It's believed that Nintendo's poor promotion of such a critically lauded game was one of the defining factors in the friction between them and Rare (Rare left Nintendo for Microsoft in late 2002). Despite everything working against it, the game has enjoyed a cult following, actually growing in popularity despite it being for an older console.
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Conker's Bad Fur Day is a 2001 platform game that was developed and published by Rare and was distributed by Nintendo. It was released on March 5, 2001 in North America, April 6, 2001 in Europe and May 25, 2001 in Australasia. The game received mostly positive reviews and in 2005 there was a remake made on it for the Xbox called Conker: Live & Reloaded.
IGN ranked it a 9.9 out of 10.
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