My wife said she would be more apt to get into games with me if we had more games she might like, so when my brother visited this weekend I got him to bring Boom Blox with him. Good decision. This game is very addictive. The Steven Speilberg developed Boom Blox proves that sometimes simplistic gameplay can deliver a ton of fun.
The game comes with 300 stages (allegedly anyway as I wonder if some of them are not just repeats among single player and multiplayer) in which you perform a variety of tasks with the Wii remote, from pulling blocks out of a tower Jenga style, shoot blocks off of pedestals for points, throw balls to knock down an opponent's tower and other simple yet addictive tasks.
I recall when hearing that Speilberg was developing this game that a puzzle type game seemed a waste of his talent, but after playing Boom Blox I can see I was wrong. I shouldn't have doubted that because in reality it's hard to beat a good puzzle game. I'm sure many hardcore gamers would just shrug at that. Trust me, I loved Gears of War and I play Call of Duty 4 with friends way too much, but it's a game like Tetris that you can pick up two decades later and still enjoy as much as the first time you played it. I think Boom Blox could find itself in that league in, oh...about 2028.
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