A little over a year ago, it was announced that Steven Spielberg and EA were going to be teaming up to develop two new video games. One was to be a next-generation title with a focus on story and graphics and the other a game that would resemble Jenga, slated for a release on the Nintendo Wii, called Boom Blox. This Elebits-like title had a steady stream of positive buzz in the months leading up to its release, with some players saying that it was shaping up to be the best third-party game for the Wii in 2008. After some extensive play time with the title, I feel confident in saying that although BoomBlox is a lot of fun, those predictions were wrong.
I'm calling Boom Blox a puzzle game because there really isn't a better way to classify it. There are several game modes that involve destroying pieces of the world by throwing objects at stacks of blocks to create chain reactions, and most of the levels involve throwing the fewest number of times possible to complete an objective. Other modes add in different ways to manipulate the blocks but most of the game will be spent swinging your arm at the television in a somewhat nerve-wracking and screen-threatening fashion to hurl baseballs at badly stacked rectangles. While this is incredibly simplistic, it is also incredibly addictive.
With the Wii U coming out tomorrow the staff of VGutopia decided to take a look back at the top 10 Wii games that came out over the past six years.
On the eve of the Wii U, The National Post's Post Arcade team looks back at 10 Wii classics.
From fun times with everyone’s favourite plumber to stretchy, googly-eyed balls of goo [there's] no better way to bid your outgoing Wii a fond farewell than to scrounge around the bargain bins of used games stores and grab a few of these bona fide classics.
Monster Hunter Tri- and The Last Story (which I need to finish still) are some games that I certainly will not forget.
GamesBeat reached out to some key games industry figures (from Nintendo, 2D Boy, Gaijin Games, and more) to ask which Wii titles they think deserved a wider audience. Here are their thoughts.
There's so many great games on Wii that get overlooked, and then gamers complain about no new games... How about A Boy and His Blob, Sin and Punishment 2, Madworld, Lost in Shadow, Lit, Dead Space Extraction, Fragile Dreams, No More Heroes 1 and 2, the Res Evil Chronicles games, Sakura Wars, Lost Winds, Tatsunoko vs Capcom, Epic Mickey, de Blob, the Bit.Trip games... That's totally ignoring any first party titles, and I'm probably forgetting a bunch. With La Mulana and Retro City Rampage and Last Story coming out, the Wii has been a lot of fun!
Zack & Wiki takes my pick. Really hope Capcom would do a sequel. Wishful thinking at best.
I did play some of these games:Cave story,Boom blox(didn't really like it)Fire emblem,Wario Land shake(see boom blox),&Excite truck
