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Way Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is just way to fun and addictive. Everyone in my family loves it. We have a 5 year old and a 15 year old and they love to compete against each other. I would definitely recomend it.

Even Mom can play

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Mom is seldom the one fighting to play the video games. Usually she is frowning and complaining that there are chores or homework or anything else more useful. But this is the first game Mom saw and thought "maybe this is ok". The games require some coordination in addition to logic and planning. The violence is equivalent to knocking down a house of cards or blocks, only more exciting. It's a winner

fun game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this for my son- 7 years old- and it is a lot of fun. It took him a while to get the concept, but once he did he has great fun. we still haven't figured out everything, but it's definitely worth buying.

Should have been a $20 game.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: May 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a simple game with some good play value but it will get old quick and be one of those rarely played ones that end up lost behind your Television.

An okay buy if you're looking for a simple game that a five year old can play but it will not hold much for a teenager or adult. Link's Crossbow Training would be a much better purchase.

Boom Blox disappoints

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: June 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

After all the hype I had high hopes for this game. The concept has a lot of potential, and the capability to create and share your own levels looks great on the box cover. However, the reality I found was that levels I created lack the one interaction that makes the built-in levels fun at all -- that the gem blox explode and disappear when you knock them over. I spent hours trying to figure out how to make this happen for my levels before giving up and accepting that it isn't supported. The built-in levels are fun, but there is way too much out-of-game experience (time spent in menus and scoreboards instead of knocking down blox). Also, I had hoped to play this game with my daughter (4yo), but the interaction with the Wii remote was too involved and frustrating for her even though it looks like its targeted for her demographic (and she is able to play most of the games in WiiSports). Last of all, the much hyped head-tracking easter egg was cut in the final product. This feature was the reason I originally heard about the game (on Johnny Chung Lee's blog), and was a major interest for me in purchasing it. I didn't discover until after I brought it home, and after playing the game for a few days that this easter egg was not included in the final product. Overall, very disappointing. Definitely not worth $60. Maybe worth $30 if the price comes down that far.

am I the only one with problems

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: May 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have a normal Wii (not modded) with the latest updated system code.
I tried 2 retail versions of Boom Blox with 4 different sets of wiimote and have trouble with the cursor.
This is what happens, go off the screen right or left and suddenly the cursor is totally out of sync you have to move the wiimote downwards to get it working correctly, but once you move left or right off the screen the cursor is hosed - I can't believe I'm the only one with this problem.
All other games I have, carnival, striker, brawl, Zelda, wii play, wii sports all play fine with my wiimotes.
So now I'm stuck with a $[...]useless game. The last thing to try is move to a 4:3 TV, maybe this games doesn't work well on WS TV.

Order it from newegg

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: May 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I ordered this game from amazon and they sat on my order, not even shipping it, for 5 days. I finally realized I could order it from newegg, pay $3 less, and the order I made 5 days later from newegg would even arrive almost a full week sooner than amazon.

The only catch was my order was "preparing to ship" for about 4 days so I could not even cancel it without customer service intervention. If it's preparing to ship, then ship it. What the hell do you need 4 days to ship a single box for?

Great game, but amazon is slipping. I ordered it from newegg and it shipped the same day for free. 3 days later it arrives. This is much better than waiting 2-3 weeks for amazon to get off of their duff.

I thought this was going to be lame...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 41
Date: May 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

...and I was right!

Okay, so it's not LAME - but it's not that fun, either. I played for a few hours tonight and it was okay. It wasn't good enough to make me want to buy it (I rented it - wanted to give it a test run before laying down my hot, soft cash). The truth is, even when the price goes down in a few months or years, I still won't buy it. An average game at best.

Boom Blox

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 21
Date: June 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this item as a gift for my grandson. I know nothing about it. I just wrapped it up and gave it to him for his birthday present.

Rental

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: August 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Don't buy this game. It's extremely disappointing. I was hoping for a sophisticated puzzle game (as it has consistently been advertised and reputed to be) with an interesting storyline (since a famous film director was involved in its production). Boasting a number of promising elements, the final product just fails to hang together in a satisfying way. The story is nearly non-existent (and what there is is infantile), and the puzzles are almost always either trivial or nearly impossible (or not puzzles at all). It is at best an addictive waste of time. And who in the world would want to create their own levels?

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