Boom Blox
- Genres
- Adventure,
- Puzzle
- Released on
- Wii
- 5/2008
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- Pub
- EA GAMES
In this high-energy game, players make their way through almost four hundred levels of strategic destruction! Kids and families will destroy their way through brain-twisting challenges with single player, co-op, and versus multiplayer options with no clean up required. Joined by a cast of more than thirty wacky characters with distinct personalities and behaviors, players will be entertained by Marion “Fluffy” McCluck, the bomb blox-laying chicken and Boots Beaverton, who likes to make the bomb blox explode. These fun characters bring personality to the Tiki, Medieval, Frontier, and Haunted themed worlds.
- Review
Name: Boom Blox
Genre: Puzzle
Platform: Nintendo Wii
A little over a year ago it was announced that Steven Spielberg and EA were going to be teaming up to develop two video games. One was to be a next-generation title, with a focus on story and graphics, and the other was going to be a game that would resemble Jenga, slated for a release on the Nintendo Wii, called Boom Blox. The Elebits-like title had a steady stream of positive buzz in the months leading up to its release, with some players saying that it was shaping up to be the best third-party game for the Wii in 2008. After some extensive playtime with the title, I feel confident in saying that although Boom Blox is a lot of fun, those predictions were wrong.
I’m calling Boom Blox a puzzle game because there really isn’t a better way to classify it. There are several game modes that involve destroying pieces of the world by throwing objects at stacks of blocks to create chain reactions, and most of the levels involve throwing the fewest number of times possible to complete an objective. Other modes add-in different ways to manipulate the blocks, but most of the game will be spent swinging your arm at the television in a somewhat nerve-wracking and screen-threatening fashion to hurl baseballs at badly stacked rectangles. While this is incredibly simplistic, it is also incredibly addictive.
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