![]() ![]() Throw these at the right blocks to spread the virus to nearby wooden blocks, thereby making them disappear. Plus, using the slingshot makes you feel like you're in the Bash Street Kids. ![]() This means there are yet more variables to consider and a vast number of different ways to complete levels. You decide the starting point, the angle and the amount of force with which the elastic pings back. The slingshot is great fun to use, not least because it's so versatile. When you let go the elastic will ping back, sending the block bashing into whatever lies in its path. To use this you just grab a block and pull backwards, stretching the elastic in the direction of your choice. Old favourites such as the bowling ball and grabber tool are back, but now there are items like the slingshot to play with. So what's different about Boom Blox: Bash Party? There are new toys, for starters. So here it is, Merry Christmas, everybody's throwing bowling balls at angry tigers. ![]() Especially when stuff then falls over and blows up. But most of all, Boom Blox works because it's based around one simple, primal principle: throwing stuff at other stuff is fun. It helps that there's a great deal of variety between levels, and huge scope for creativity when it comes to solving puzzles and racking up points. Objects soar, smash, explode, wobble, topple and tumble just like you'd expect. One reason it works is that the physics system is excellent. Or knocking chemical blocks into each other to cause huge explosions, saving rectangular sheep from falling off a skyscraper, playing golf in space and so on. Or attempting to remove a beam from the bottom of a tower without tipping it over, Jenga-style. You might find yourself toppling towers of blocks with a bowling ball, or trying to knock point blocks into multipliers with a baseball. ![]() The gameplay is physics-based put simply, you use the Wii remote, the A button and a throwing gesture to chuck projectiles at inanimate objects. Once again, you're presented with hundreds of puzzles to solve and challenges to complete - over 400, in fact, which is a good deal more than the previous game. It's a game developed by looking at the Wii's control system and building a game around it, instead of tacking on a bit of shaking.īoom Blox: Bash Party is also all of those things. It's the most fun you can have with friends and family without engendering a complex series of emotional conundrums and children with three arms. It's inventive, accessible and addictive. It scored an impressive 9/10 on Eurogamer, even though I wrote the review. Or remake it with a proper plot, decent special effects and an ending that doesn't make you want to slice your own face off.īut instead he's been busying himself with the sequel to last year's Boom Blox. Like issue a public apology for Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, for example. You'd think Steven Spielberg had better things to do than help EA make videogames. ![]()
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