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Boom Blox | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $46.85
You Save: $3.14 (6%)
New (26) Used (4) from $40.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 23
Platform: Nintendo Wii
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 15547
UPC: 014633155471
EAN: 0014633155471
ASIN: B000YDIYFG
Release Date: May 6, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED !!!!!
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| 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. |
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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.
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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
Best Wii Game Yet May 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
No, the title isn't hyperbole. I do honestly believe this is the best Wii title I've purchased. Granted, I do not own No More Heroes, Metroid Prime 3, or Zelda: Twilight Princess - but I do have all the rest of the so-called "best" Wii games (Super Mario Galaxy, Zack and Wiki, Mario Kart Wii, Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Okami, etc.). Those other games aren't bad, not by a long shot - I've loved them all - they just don't have the downright pure fun factor that Boom Blox does.
Boom Blox is astounding in its simplistic design yet addictive nature. This is a game all ages can enjoy. It has decent colorful graphics, nice relaxing music, and tons of puzzles to solve. While some puzzles aren't as fun or enjoyable as others - it is still never a chore to finish any portion of this game. I have yet to even try the multiplayer or create-a-puzzle modes, but after having just played most of the single player I doubt my opinion of this game could get any higher.
Is it a technical marvel? No. Is it high action super polished AAA? No. Is it the most fun I've had playing the Wii? YES.
This game has made me believe my Wii purchase was not in vain and that there can be good inventive games that will tear me from my Xbox 360.
Great fun! May 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this the day after it came out and played it as soon as I got home, at first I thought it was going to be too easy when I waass playing hte "demo" Training mode, (You must do this to unlock the first set of games) but once you atrat playing each level gets more and more difficult, I was trying to get gold on each level and ran into one I had to repeat several time sbefore I even got a bronze.... this is so much fun and great for all ages (my 5 year old Grandson is going to love it as much as I do)
This game rocks....
 And overgrown shockwave game May 12, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'll start off by saying that I've only played this game on single player.
For some reason, this game reminds me a lot of various (better quality) Shockwave block based games games out there that you can play on the Internet. The graphics are only marginally better. It's extremely easy to learn. And it keeps you entertained despite the sub-par graphics.
That said, it's a Shockwave game on some major steroids. You can rotate around quite easily. The controls are obviously much more interactive.
One of the things I love most about this game is it's auto-save feature. After each level, it takes a fraction of a second and saves your progress. Unlike so many other games, you do not have to spend 25 minutes before you get to a point where you can save your progress. This means that you always have the option of putting the game down at any time without losing progress. That said, the challenges will keep you from wanting to put the game down. Last night for instance before heading to bed I wanted to play a video game, but did not want to devote a lot of time. So I played two levels, felt sleepy, and quit then.
The game saves memory by not having great graphics. It makes up for it though by instead having tons of content. There are tons and tons of levels, and I'm looking forward to trying out ones that other people have made. You unlock the next level by beating a level. You unlock more advanced levels by beating levels well. You also unlock things to use in create mode by beating levels well. You will be drawn in by a desire to not just beat a level, but to do so in fewer throws.
One thing I would like to address are the controls. First of all, you'll start wishing that the Wii controller was a bit more ergonomic. Your hand may ache after extended play from having to so finely control the motion of the controller (which does allow greater interaction though).
Another issue, which is the games largest annoyance for me is the limited area in which the cursor works. You have a cursor that you position, and then click a button to lock into place (and then use a throwing motion to fire at that place). There's only a fairly small area of movement for the Wii controller where the cursor will be on screen. I really wish that there were more options for you to define this area for yourself. To get an understanding of this annoyance, go to the Wii menu and move the cursor around. Now make a throwing motion with the controller. Now reposition the cursor, and repeat this a few dozen times.
My final issue with the game is that although you can (usually) rotate around the puzzle, you are limited to only rotating. You can't move around so that the center of the puzzle is not directly in the middle of the screen. You can not zoom in or out. Yet you can move around and zoom in and out in the create mode. It puzzles me and annoys me why this is not possible in the actual game.
New games are not cheap, and I was a bit wary of getting a game that I knew only had mediocre graphics. I was intrigued enough however by the innovative controls and use of the Wii to get the game. The game was worth the money. Despite it's shortcomings, it's a fun, challenging game that's simple to learn, and you can put in as much, or more importantly as little time into as you want.
Awesome!!!!!!! May 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the neatest game! I haven't really found anything like it before and it's highly addictive (the first time I played it, 5 hours flew right by)! The price is high, but worth every penny. I think I got my money's worth the last two days already. Some reviews have said that the graphics aren't the best...I disagree. The animal characters are cute and funny. I don't really think the graphics are supposed to be that high tech anyway...the blocks are the most important thing. I think this game is great for all ages. Some of the moves are tricky, but who wants a game that you can master in one day. The blocks actually fall like real blocks. During the two player game, one of the blocks got "stuck". It really got stuck and it took several tries to get it out. It was so life-like! If you love puzzles-this game is for you!
A fun puzzle blast May 11, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A game that has Steven Spielberg's name attached to it in some way, shape, or form deserves some sort of attention, and EA's Boom Blox for the Wii is that such game. A fun, slightly inventive puzzle blast; Boom Blox finds you disassembling, destroying, or just playing around with a series of Jenga-esque blocks. What really makes Boom Blox stand out from the pack though is that the game makes excellent use of the Wii-mote, and as a multiplayer party game, Boom Blox truly shines above all others. If there are any downsides to Boom Blox, it's that the game's story (or lack there of) is more of a distraction than anything else. Along with some moments of repetitiveness, the good outweighs the bad quite a bit: there are a heaping amount of inventive puzzles, and the game's level editor is simply spectacular. All in all, Boom Blox is an inventive, fun, and pretty addictive puzzle blast that doesn't disappoint; and for puzzle lovers and party-game lovers alike, the game is an essential addition to your Wii library.
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