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Spielberg's Wii game "Boom Blox"
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http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/36524/Steven-Spielbergs-Boom-Blox-Announced
The 360 and PS3 are getting a more expensively developed game instead of this.
Hopefully Boom Blox will be good enough for me to ignore the X in the title.
EA has announced that BOOM BLOX, the first game developed in collaboration between EA and director and producer Steven Spielberg, is set for a May 2008 release for Nintendo Wii. This high-energy game features more than 300 levels, a cast of more than thirty wacky characters, and an easy-to-use in-game editor that allows players to express their creativity.
“I am a gamer myself, and I really wanted to create a video game that I could play with my kids,” said Steven Spielberg. “BOOM BLOX features an enormous amount of fun challenges and cool scenarios for your kids to solve or for you to master together.”
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 experience the visceral gameplay - perfectly suited for the Wii’s interactive motion-sensitive controls - through brain-twisting challenges. They can interact with entertaining characters such as the block-laying chickens or baseball-throwing monkeys across four themed environments - Tiki, Medieval, Frontier, and Haunted. 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.
"We developed BOOM BLOX with endless combinations of gameplay in mind,” explains Louis Castle, executive producer. “With over three hundred levels, built upon a full real-time physics model, your experience can be as easy or difficult as you want it to be - there really is something for everyone to enjoy.”
“My inspiration for this game came while I was playing the Wii for the first time,” added Spielberg. “From the initial concept to what the game is today, it’s always been built around the innovations the Wii brings to playing games. BOOM BLOX plays on the enjoyment of building and knocking down blocks, something that can appeal innately to kids and adults of all ages.”
BOOM BLOX is also in production for mobile phones and will be widely available this Spring. The mobile version puts innovative BOOM BLOX gameplay on phones everywhere -- delivering engaging, fun, and groundbreaking action. For the first time in a mobile game, players will be able to create custom levels and share them with their friends directly from the phone, enjoying a rich, interactive community experience.
Developed at EA Los Angeles, BOOM BLOX has not yet been rated by the ESRB and PEGI.
other, currently untitled, is far more ambitious - as indicated by the sole screenshot shown to the audience gathered for EA's games presentation.
According to the presenter, the goal of the game is to truly generate an emotional response in the player and even "make them cry."
The shot showed a figure in a dark grey hood, back turned away, with his outstretched hand holding a brown sparrow lying dead on its back. To the figure's right was a thick green fern frond, and a simple building and courtyard take up most of the background. It had attitude, but very little else.
Hopefully Boom Blox will be good enough for me to ignore the X in the title.
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It may turn out to be one of the best mini-game compilations out there, but I absolutely fail to understand the Speilberg connection. Where's Paul Newman, I've got questions.
edit: It's Jenga. Steven Speilberg is making Jenga.
The thing is, I'm a DigiPen student and I'm sitting not 3 yards away from a Toblo kiosk. For those of you who don't know, Toblo is a game some of my upperclassmen made and won some awards at the PNW game conference in 2006.
Now EA might have picked up the rights of the game and hired on the students like Valve did with Portal and "Narbacular Drop", but really now...
They're just making it seem like EA and Spielberg shat out this wonderful thing...
I digress...
Your thoughts?
It's still Jenga.
It seems like it could be fun though if they gussy up the graphics and make the controls nice.
I'm sorry, I know the Wii can put out nicer looking stuff than those screen shots. They're blocks for gods sake. It's not like there's too much magic to them.
It looks more like you build towers and then blow them up in order to topple other towers. That isn't that much like Jenga other than the blocks.
I can't decide whether to cry or to drink a Mountain Dew...
Steven Speilberg presents Camp Lazlo's Seahorse Adventure Sudoku
His name is connected to some pretty bad games -
Jaws, Back to the Future, Men in Black, Hook, The Land Before Time and worst of all E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
I expect as much of him as I do the Wii version of Star Wars Unleashed. Hopefully I will be pleasantly surprised on both counts.
http://www.ea.com/boomblox/
Edit: Here is the trailer from last year's E3:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/21816.html
It talks about the 360/PS3 game first.
Yeah.
Shit, I remember when they [Toblo] were forced to pull out of IGF by us because, if I remember correctly, they tried to disassociate themselves with us. That or they tried to sell it.
Boom Blox was shown at the last E3 too, so there's little chance that it has anything to do with the Toblo team.
Hmmmm.
Overwhelmed I'm not.
No, it is "the first game developed in collaboration between EA and director and producer Steven Spielberg".
Spielberg's first foray into gaming was the classic LucasArts adventure game The Dig.
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Does the other game even have a name yet? I wonder if it will be Assassins Creed 2.
that game was awesome
anyway, this game looks pretty chill
This game keeps on getting more interesting for me.
Here is an explanation on what headtracking is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw&feature=related
The create-a-stage segment 3/4ths of the way through this sold the game for me. A built castle being "seiged" by knights and blasting it with a "cannon".
There's no way I'm paying more than 20 bucks for this, though.
Watch this, damn it:
http://uk.wii.ign.com/dor/objects/892269/boom-blox/videos/boomblox-leveledit-4.html
What a weird onomatopoeia.
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Definitely on my list of games to get though.