Boom Blox

List Price: $39.99 Discount Price: $34.00

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.

Customer Reviews:

Very good regardless of some flaws [Posted on 2008-09-16]
Boom Blox has a ton of play in it as you work diverse and sometimes very difficult. Most of the puzzles are fun and provide great replay value as you try to attain gold medals at some pretty tricky puzzles. I really like the diverse nature of the puzzles but some of the mindless shoot em up levels can be tedious and frustrating, relying on luck over skill. The timed levels can also be nearly impossible to pass. Regardless , with 400 levels, cooperative and head-to-head play you can find weeks of fun in this one, even if you can't complete the entire game. If they have a sequel that addresses the shortcomings, I'll be a buyer. Meanwhile I'll try to improve on my current 55% completion. Almost great

Boom Blox is great for families! [Posted on 2008-09-18]
When I first got this game, I was somewhat disappointed because it wasn't that fun. As I gave it more time, I discovered that there are many more facets of the game that are missed at first glance.

For me, I am particular towards the multiplayer aspects of Boom Blox. That is, I wanted to play this game with my friends/family - and preferred everyone participating together than sitting around taking turns. Thus, although Boom Blox supports a handful of 4 player games, I was disappointed when many of them only worked while taking turns. Furthermore, the shooting games where everyone could play simultaneously were even more disappointing because the game frame lags a lot with all the blocks bursting into [unnecessary] effects. However, as I found later, you can "edit" any level (or create your own) which allows you to speed up the game while taking turns (by reducing the timer to, for example, 5 seconds a turn) and change the weapons used to switch up the gameplay. This helped fix the earlier disappointment in which I found people got antsy as people really took their time (read: 40 seconds) planning their moves.

Although the 4 player mode was somewhat lackluster, the 2 player mode was really great. Granted, it makes for less of a party game when only two people can participate - but many of the games are simultaneous and makes for exciting gameplay. There is both a cooperative and competitive route for the 2 player mode - both which are exciting in their own way. The cooperative games require, surprise, cooperation - but often, the task is rather challenging and thus, requires the players to really work together or face the "Try Again" screen. The competitive games were simply games in which you and your buddy fought against each other, usually to destroy a building or score the most points. Either way, the two player modes are really worth the multiplayer aspect of the game.

Lastly, the single player mode will really test your skills. There are many tasks that you are expected to complete - often using only a single baseball or while protecting several innocent kittens from a Halloween army (your arm will tire). I found that revisiting a game after a week or two allowed you to overcome the challenge of getting gold on every task - an extra that grants you very powerful weapons. Again, you can edit any level just to play around with different weapons, blocks, decoration, characters, etc.

To cut this short, Boom Blox is really worth the purchase. Younger kids can delight in the "boom" of everything falling off, while older players can aim to score higher points and complete the challenges that may be too hard for the young (there are many). I hope that you enjoy the game as much as I will continue to - and have a great day!

Fun for everyone [Posted on 2008-09-23]
This bar-none is the best multi-player game on the Wii. I play it whenever I have a little time to spare. There are so many options and challenges to keep you playing for hours on end. It is also good for all ages. My 5 year old Nephew loves to play this game with me whenever he comes over. I like the challenge and he likes making all of the blox fall over.

GREAT GAME for 7-12 and parents too! [Posted on 2008-09-30]
My son age 11 and I love playing this game and it is great for boys that like to destroy and throw things! Who doesn't love to do that? I love the animals in it and the many different puzzles and the fact that you can change camera angles to pick out your block. I wouldn't recommend for younger than 7 because I think it would be too difficult to do much besides throw a few blocks, but I am no expert! I love everything about this game!

Tied for best game... [Posted on 2008-10-07]
...with Mario Kart. These are the two games that I can play with my 8 year-old girls with a great time being had by all.

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