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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
Buy New: £13.20
You Save: £26.79 (67%)
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 230
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: puzzle-games
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.7
MPN: NWOEADELE06098
EAN: 5030930060985
ASIN: B00111SFBS
Release Date: May 9, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
Boom, and sometimes bust July 22, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Are we to assume from this game that when Stephen Spielberg wants to relax after a hard day's shooting, he likes to go back to his Hollywood palace and indulge himself in his purpose-built Jenga / Coconut Shy suite? 'Cos that's what this game is all about, and it's pretty good too.
The games are all about breaking down towers of blocks, some of which resemble Jenga towers, while others are made of different-shaped blocks which tumble down in a mousetrap-style manner when you set off the chain reaction: the smashed block releases the teeter-totter which throws the bomb in the air, which you smash to blow up the block above, which releases the gems... that sort of thing.
The best bits of the game involve aiming your crosshair using the remote as a pointer, then lobbing a virtual ball by flinging the remote towards the screen. No, DON'T let go of it, silly! This is a good example of gesture controls on the Wii remote, since the force of fling determines very accurately whether you gently lob the ball, or fast-bowl it like a particularly destructive cricketer. Watching the blocks tumble down is very satisfying and impressive, and the simplicity of the graphics is adequately compensated-for by the accuracy of the physics.
Sadly, not all levels involve throwing the ball. There are Jenga-like sections where you have to remove blocks by 'grabbing' them (click-and-drag with the remote). This is less satisfying since there is no option to 'flick' the blocks, as you would in a real Jenga game, to determine how much weight is on them, so what might look like a non-supporting block might turn out to be the keystone. There is not always enough visual detail of how deep the block goes into the stack to figure out, by sight, which block you should pull. Consequently, these parts of the game can feel frustratingly hit-and-miss. Also, while the blocks have a weighty feel to them in the ball-chucking levels, they bounce and swing around like cubes of polystyrene soufle on the block-grab levels, so it's hard to be delicate. Other levels have you shooting the blocks with lasers or squirting water at them. These levels are, to say the very least, uninspiring. In the case of the laser gun, the controls feel broken since the sight freezes while you're shooting. It might be intentional, to make sure you think about what you're zapping and not just holding in the A button and strafing across the screen, but it doesn't feel right.
Boom Blox is a true original and another one of those games that could only work on the Wii. It comes close to Wii Sports in its clever use of gesture controls. Sadly, it's also a bit inconsistent. I reckon they'll have it cracked by the time they do the sequel, though.
boom blox July 31, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am 9 years old. my nan bought me this game.
This game is full of bombs bowling balls and balls and you can create your own levels and play and pause your levels and send them to your friends this is one of my favourite games it is hard though but very good
Good for children August 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I brought this product a couple of weeks ago, a friend of 27 recommended it for me however I'm 19 and felt it was a bit childish, so i lent it to my friends children who are 5 and 10 and they loved it, the one of 5 found it a little challenging and frustrating but it kept them quite for ages. would definitely recommend it for child
Tis a Keeper. May 31, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Love this game, the levels are varied & their is lots to do & great to play multi player as even a compleate novice can easily get the hang of it espesialy on the Jenga games which need luck just as much as skill.
One gripe I have however is that on the 2nd to last haunted house level (using the baseball defending the 5 cats) I'm finding it impossible to compleate, just as the action gets most hectic the cross hair on the screen freezes & by time it stops crashing I'm dead !
Other than this gripe and the repetative strain injury this game is great & a keeper.
TOPPLE TASTIC FUN. June 15, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Only got this this morning so have not completed it by far it is however great fun and not too stressful. In two player competition mode it is a good laugh as you try to capitalise from you opponents mistakes different modes of play such as throwing - pulling - shooting etc make this a really fun game to play - watching the towers gently sway as you chip away at their foundations until they finally come crashing down in great detail. Different modes of play to adventure - co-op - all add to the fun especially when the blame game starts on the co-op. ALL in all impressed, it is fun, not too stressful and good to watch too. Only gripe is the character set up seem s a little fussy can`t seem to get the profiles up probably not read instructions properly lol too busy playing!!
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