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Boom Blox | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $42.99
You Save: $7.00 (14%)
New (27) Used (3) from $41.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 60
Platform: Nintendo Wii
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: 15547
UPC: 014633155471
EAN: 0014633155471
ASIN: B000YDIYFG
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand new, factory sealed, never opened or used. US version NOT an IMPORT!!!
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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 20 more reviews...
 great for parties and spouses July 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you love video games but your wife/husband won't touch them -- this is the game for you. This is the kind of game that both you and your spouse will enjoy playing together. It's also the best party game for the Wii available to date.
The "most helpful" review nails it. Boom Blox is extremely intuitive so is very approachable to even those who've never played a video game before. It's very cute, very fun, and makes excellent use of the unique Wii controllers.
The concept is so simple, it's amazing no one has done it before. (The concept works better with Wii controllers so maybe it couldn't have been done well prior to the Wii.) In a nutshell, it's like playing with children's blocks. Make a tower of blocks then take turns throwing marbles at it to knock it down. Or play Jenga -- see how many blocks you can remove before the structure crumbles. Or shoot it with a water hose. Or blow it up with a bomb. Or swing some blocks like a wrecking ball to try to knock down the big towers. Or build a castle fort and try to destroy your opponent's forts. There are dozens of different styles of games all around the theme of structures made up of differently shaped blocks. There are also a handful of shooting gallery games thrown in for good measure.
The game has solo modes including an "adventure", multiplayer competitive modes, and multiplayer cooperative modes. Some modes are great, some are only good, but they're all interesting and fun. Though some modes or levels are initially locked, the majority are unlocked out of the box. (This made for a great party gaming experience, as we were able to try out dozens of 2-4 player modes right away.) The tutorial mode is also very well done and teaches you the basics inside of 2 minutes, but you don't even need it; even non-gamers will understand how to play this game intuitively.
Why only 4 stars? While hard-core gamers can definitely enjoy this game, it doesn't have a lot of depth or breadth and is a bit too simple to be one of my favorites. Boom Blox was a bigger hit as a party game than Mario Party 8, but the latter has a wider variety of mini games so might last longer.
 Impatient when it's not MY turn!! June 30, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This game is highly addictive- my whole family enjoys playing. We need to get more controllers, in fact, so we can have four people compete!!! I get very impatient when it's not my turn, or when my dad is hogging it!! I love the challenge of getting a gold medal and will play the level again and again until I can knock everything down with 1 ball!
The only downside is that my pre-existing shoulder injury acts up if I throw too hard. It's not necessary to throw as hard as my dad, tho!! :)
I usually don't leave comments but I had to for this one. June 29, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have enjoyed Mario Kart Wii, Wii Fit, Endless Ocean, and Wii Sports. I don't know about this one. I just bought it today an I play a good 3 hours. I have mixed feelings about this one. I like games that make you think but this is a strange game. I was very excited by all the good reviews but I didn't have as much fun playing this Bloom Box as I have with other I named above.
Although I would play this game again some other day I don't look forward to play it as much as Mario Kart. It is a slower game that takes time. It gives me the feeling like I am playing Solitare. Listen, if you are thinking about getting this game I suggest you spend the 5 bucks and rent it before buying. I agree with the other guy/gal that said that this game should have been priced at 20 bucks.
I am giving it 4 stars because I do think that this game is very original. It is will made! Also, I believe it has potential as a 2 player game.
best muti-generational game for gamers and non-gamers ever. June 25, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
With the exception of the shooting mode, this is a perfect game.
Much of the game is turned-based, so for many games you can share a single controler for 4 people. The turned based portion of the game enables very young and very old players to compete with even hard-core gamers and still have fun(and hard core gamers can enjoy the game also).
It is great to have a game that I can play with my 78y/o father and my 5y/o son.
It works because anyone can smash blocks, and everyone thinks they can do it well, but those with better skills can take the game to a higher level.
Boom Blox is fun for the whole family! June 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm not going to go into too many details, other than Spielberg has nailed how fun it is to stack and destroy piles of blocks, and you never have to clean up the mess! The throwing mechanics are perfect, and the game does a fantastic job of utilizing the Havok physics engine, so everything you see feels genuine.
On top of the ability to topple blocks or optionally pulling them down with a hand, the game also throws in a few twists that you wouldn't be able to do in the real world. Some blocks, when struck, will disappear entirely, others will explode on contact with a sublimely satisfying chaotic response to follow. Oh yeah, many of us lack the ability to throw a sixteen pound bowling ball overhand with any sense of force, too, so this game can kind of make you feel like Superman in that regard.
There are tons of play modes and pre-set puzzles, but the fun never really ends when you tap into the level creator. It is here you can alter any pre-set puzzle as you see fit (throw in some explosives- they're always a good solution to a frustrating puzzle!) OR you can create your own twisted puzzles from scratch. You can even share them online with your friends.
Oh, and did I mention it becomes even more fun when you've got three additional people to share it with? The multiplayer aspect of the game is where it truly shines. Once you've shown them the simple mechanics of the game, the hours following will whiz right on by! It would still be a game worth recommending if multiplayer was the only way it could be played!
Did I mention this game was fun? Pick up Boom Blox; its a fantastic game with enough intuitive play that anybody from 3 to 103 can play, and it has enough of a challenge (going for all gold medals in the single player modes will keep you busy for weeks, if not months) that the hardcore gamers out there will find plenty to enjoy!
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