A Gaming Diary
Boom Blox (Wii)
It’s not really a mini-games compilation, it’s too well-themed for that. But they do get an awful lot of play styles from the basic premise of blocks falling around. There’s Jenga, which is probably the best bit of the package so far. There’s, um, bowling or something, where you have to use balls to topple blocks or to destroy baddies that are coming to break down your castle. There are shooting range levels where you simply have to point at moving blocks and shoot them. There are quite possibly other styles of play, too.
Last night I did the training and a few simple single player puzzles, but I spent most of my time playing the co-op levels with my wife. It’s all very, very good fun. We had a devil of a time where you work simultaneously to remove blocks from a see-saw, but we didn’t get grumpy and it was a sweet, sweet feeling when we won. The Wii controls feel exactly the way they should and the physics engine seems very sensible. I’m not surprised it’s been getting such good reviews.
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