Boom Blox | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $33.75
You Save: $6.24 (16%)
New (27) Used (5) from $33.74
Rating:  63 reviews
Sales Rank: 101
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: Action Games
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): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 15547
UPC: 014633155471
EAN: 0014633155471
ASIN: B000YDIYFG
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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:
 This is really fun!!! November 19, 2008
Kathy P.
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This turns out to be a very challenging game. It can get very competitive when playing others, which makes it even more fun to play. This is fun for all ages. I am 62 and have a great time with it, and my grandson requested it for Christmas this year which made buying a gift for him very easy.
A lot of fun for adults and kids November 17, 2008
David A. Froning
Great game. My sons (4 and 6) and I love it. There are many different modes and you can create your own levels. There are competitive and cooperative multiplayer levels, so you have a lot of options.
Fantastic game for the Wii November 10, 2008
Geocache Dad (Green Bay, WI)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We have had this game for a few weeks now and it is nothing short of amazing. The fact that the blox and the characters all have different characteristics makes the game fun and challenging. We haven't unlocked all of the levels yet, so there is still more to look forward to. An added bonus is the fact that you can create your own levels using the same blox and characters. My kids have been very creative in creating their own levels. I would highly recommend this game for the Wii.
 Although the Wii is not hardcore friendly.. October 25, 2008
Jared A. Jaramillo
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
it excels beyond any other console in the puzzle genre. Being a multi-console owner, I hardly turn to my Wii for extensive gaming, but it is very easy to get lost in the addicting game play of Boom Blox. The title conists of a small amount of mechanics, but the puzzles and goals are built to be very challenging. You will find yourself starting a puzzle to pass a small amount of time, and end up playing for a matter hours. The game has a small adventure mode that consist of several different stories with different objectives. There's also a section that consist of straight forward puzzles, and the multiplayer componet is also fun. The only gripe I have is the lack of online multiplayer or co-operative story mode, this game would definetly be the best Wii game I've played if I could face off with other players head-to-head online, and if my wife could join me in the adventure mode. Boom Blox takes full advantage of the Wii's controls and technology and allows the player to decide their method of control, I prefer using a single remote by itself but I could see why someone would want to include the nunchuck to operate the camera easier. The bottom line, if you're looking for a grade A puzzle game or just something to make you actually want to power on your Wii then do not hesitate to pick up Boom Blox today!
Good Time Waste October 21, 2008
Frostfox (Chicago)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
To describe this game I would say it's a cross between Jenga, Duck Hunt, and the baseball knock down carnival games. It's pretty fun to play with friends and family. Just so you know your arm will get sore after about 20 minutes of play because of all the throwing, shooting and pulling you do in this game.
It's cool that you can make and play levels you create, but the Wii is limited in how much can be on the screen at one time. Even if you don't reach that limit and play the level, the processing power of the Wii is lacking and you will experience slowdown. While this doesn't hurt the overall fun-ness of the game, it can be annoying.
At the price it is now, it's worth to pick up since you can either play this game for hours or 5 minutes. These kind of games are perfect for those with only a short time to spare.
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