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Boom Blox for Nintendo Wii
Boom Blox for Nintendo Wii builds hundreds of puzzles from wooden, glass, rubber and explosive blocks. With the Wii Remote you throw balls at a tower, carefully pull a block from a stack or shoot objects away. Speed, direction, weight and the point of impact determine how the structure reacts. A hard throw is therefore not always the best solution: one precisely struck hinge or explosive block can start an entire chain reaction.
The solo sequence spreads assignments across colourful worlds with animals, cowboys, castles and ghosts. Sometimes you must make as many point blocks fall as possible; elsewhere you protect kittens, clear a path or prevent a tower from collapsing. Bronze, silver and gold results reward efficient solutions. New tools and block types change the approach without requiring long combinations or complicated buttons.
Party contains more than one hundred cooperative and competitive puzzles for up to four local players. Depending on the assignment, you play in turns or simultaneously and can save a structure together or take points from one another. Create lets you modify existing levels and make your own constructions with unlocked parts. The former sharing through WiiConnect24 is no longer available, but homemade levels can be saved and played locally.
Region and language
Our Nintendo Wii games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Boom Blox supports one to four local players with Wii Remotes. A Nunchuk or Wii MotionPlus is not required. The former sharing through WiiConnect24 has ended; solo puzzles, local multiplayer and the editor remain available offline.
Manual
Boom Blox for Nintendo Wii includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Boom Blox
EA Los Angeles developed Boom Blox with filmmaker Steven Spielberg. Electronic Arts released the Wii version in Europe on 9 May 2008. The project emerged from a collaboration on new game ideas and was designed around the motion capabilities of the Wii Remote from the beginning. Spielberg wanted to combine the immediate pleasure of building and knocking things down with puzzles that also reward careful planning.
A physics system calculates every collision, so the same puzzle can end differently depending on angle, force and material. Spielberg also encouraged the themed worlds and characters, including beavers, gorillas, dogs and skeletons. This kept it from being an abstract block experiment: short stories and objectives provide reasons to demolish, protect or deliberately alter structures.
At release, Boom Blox offered more than three hundred levels, an extensive local Party collection and a built-in editor. Through WiiConnect24, creations could then be sent to registered Wii friends. That network service has ended and is not presented as a current feature. The puzzles, local multiplayer and editor are on the disc. Boom Blox Bash Party followed in 2009 with new block types and a more extensive system for shared levels.
Similar games for Nintendo Wii
Bash Party retains throwing, grabbing and knocking down blocks, but adds new environments, block types and more than four hundred new assignments. The first Boom Blox introduces the physics foundation and original characters. Both contain an editor and local multiplayer, but their online sharing methods differed and are no longer guaranteed.
Eledees lets you pick up objects with the Wii pointer and search a house for small creatures. Boom Blox focuses on contained structures and calculates how every throw or pulling motion affects the stack. Both use physics as a puzzle tool, but Boom Blox places more emphasis on scores and local competition.
Mercury Meltdown Revolution asks you to tilt, split and reunite a blob of mercury through mazes. Boom Blox does not control a playfield but lets you strike or grab blocks directly. Both reward small, precise movements and experiment with material behaviour, while Boom Blox also uses destructive chain reactions.
Kororinpa tilts entire courses to guide a marble along narrow tracks. Boom Blox keeps the camera around a block structure and uses throws, projectiles and grabbing motions. Both make the Wii Remote part of the physics puzzle, but Kororinpa mainly tests balance whereas Boom Blox focuses on construction, timing and collapse.
Jenga World Tour revolves around carefully removing and stacking wooden blocks according to the familiar tabletop game. Boom Blox contains similar pulling puzzles but adds explosives, projectiles, different materials, story objectives and hundreds of other assignments. The same tension around a swaying tower therefore gains far more variety and competitive rules.
