Boom Blox

Boom Blox
From Electronic Arts

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Product Description

Fun for kids and the entire family, BOOM BLOX offers action-packed interactive activities that takes Wii play to a new level of creativity and fun with single player, co-op, and versus gameplay. Players can explore the visceral gameplay that keeps them destroying their way through brain-twisting challenges.

They can interact with entertaining characters such as the Blox-laying chickens or the baseball-throwing monkeys, who bring personality to the Tiki, Medieval, Frontier, and Haunted themed environments.

Additionally, players can remix any level of the game in Create Mode using props, blocks, or characters that have been unlocked during the game. Players can also virtually build anything they can dream up. Plus, their designs can then be shared with friends or used to challenge others to solve their newly created puzzle via WiiConnect24.

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #97 in Video Games
* Brand: Electronic Arts
* Released on: 2008-05-06
* ESRB Rating: Everyone
* Platform: Nintendo Wii
* Dimensions: 2.00 pounds

Features

* Use fun action gestures and crazy virtual tools (like bowling balls, baseballs and fire hoses) to destroy your way through over 300 brain-twisting challenges.
* Fun for kids and the entire family, BOOM BLOX offers action-packed interactive activities that takes Wii play to a new level of creativity and fun with single player, co-op, and versus gameplay.
* Tackle the action and interact with entertaining characters such as the Blox-laying chickens or the baseball throwing monkeys, who bring personality to the Tiki, Medieval, Frontier, and Haunted themed environments.
* Unlock characters, worlds, blox, and props throughout the game and use to build whatever you can imagine in Create Mode. You can virtually build anything you can dream up. Remix any level and share what you create with friends via WiiConnect24.
* Over 30 Wacky Characters set in 5 Unique Worlds, and up to 4 players at once.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
BOOM BLOX, is the first game developed in collaboration between two giants of multimedia entertainment, Electronic Arts and director/producer, Steven Spielberg. Spielberg is obviously a master storyteller and so knows a thing or two about blockbusters,

but he also no stranger to the gaming world. A long-time gamer himself, he conceived the original idea behind Lucas Art’s PC/Mac title The Dig, but busting these BLOX is an entirely new concept.

Levels and Levels of Fun
A Puzzle/Action game inspired by Spielberg's own search for a game that he would enjoy playing with his own kids, BOOM BLOX is designed specifically with the strengths and versatility of the Wii in mind.

In it players can look forward to a fast-paced gameplay blending the simplicity of the wildly popular block game Jenga and the crazy complexity of a Rube Goldberg machine--devices that although performing very simple tasks are designed to do it by the most complicated means possible.

BOOM BLOX features over three hundred levels, a variety of activities, a cast of over thirty wacky characters, and an easy-to-use in-game editor that allows players to express their creativity. It’s visceral gameplay is perfectly suited for the Wii’s interactivity.

The action gets going fast and the fun never ends as you throw baseballs, blast lasers, save wacky animal characters, explore cool worlds and more!... making it the ultimate Wii blox-buster for 2008.

Features:

* Throw, grab, and blast your way through 300+ levels - Use fun action gestures and crazy virtual tools (like bowling balls, baseballs and fire hoses) to destroy your way through over 300 brain-twisting challenges.
* Fast-paced Multiplayer Action - Fun for kids and the entire family, BOOM BLOX offers action-packed interactive activities that takes Wii play to a new level of creativity and fun with single player, co-op, and versus gameplay. Up to 4 players at once.
* Over 30 Wacky Characters set in 5 Unique Worlds - Tackle the action and interact with entertaining characters such as the Blox-laying chickens or the baseball throwing monkeys, who bring personality to the Tiki, Medieval, Frontier, and Haunted themed environments.
* Make It Your Own/Share – Unlock characters, worlds, blox, and props throughout the game and use to build whatever you can imagine in Create Mode. You can virtually build anything you can dream up. Remix any level and share what you create with friends via WiiConnect24TM.

Endless Play and Replay Combinations
Built upon a full real-time physics model, each player's BOOM BLOX experience can be as easy or difficult as you want it to be. Additionally, players can remix any level of the game in Create Mode using props, blocks, or characters that have been unlocked during the game.

Players can also virtually build anything they can dream up. This makes for nearly endless play and replay options in what promises to be the latest must-have Wii title for the entire family.

Customer Reviews

Excellent game for Kids or Adults
We picked up a Wii last year for the Fit balance board. Since then we have been looking for fun games for adults to play on the fit. Well this is one of them. My wife and I have played for hours and hours and keep coming back for more. It keeps coming up with things to make us think and giggle...

Very satisfied.

Great Family/Party Game
This was my first game outside of Wii Sports for the Wii and so far I have been very impressed. While I have not yet played the single player mode, my entire family, including my mother who has not played a video game since Tetris for the original Gameboy, played the multi-player mode for hours.

Our favorite mode is competition mode GRAB, which is like a virtual version of Jenga, but with dozens of different tower configurations, it makes for a very exciting game. Other game modes allow you to throw baseballs or shoot at blox to knock them over. Each game mode has multiple mini-games inside, and we have yet to try more than half of them.

While this game won't win any awards for an in-depth story game, it makes a great party game, even moreso than games like Mario Kart, Mario Party or Super Smash Brothers. It really makes great use of the "Wiimote" sensing abilities and allows for up to 4 players in most games. Now I'm just anxious for my family to give it up for a few hours so I can try the single player mode.

Edit: After exploring the game for a few more days, I will have to say that the "Party" multi-player mode is a lot more fun than single player mode. The competition aspect of the multi-player portion of the game is great, but playing alone, single player mode seems a little too simple.

While it would probably entertain those 12 and under, adults will most likely find themselves bored with the mini-games in single player mode after an hour or two. It will stay on my shelf as a great party game, but I probably won't be playing by myself very often.

Lots of Fun
This game is a 110% winner. I am not a video game person but I do enjoy the challenge and the fun of this game. Grandkids from 5 yrs to adults have really enjoyed the game....and adults have changed their minds about a video game system due to boom blox. If you want to spend money on a game, you will be satisfied with this one. Worth the money! Awesome!!!!

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