Electronic Arts and Steven Spielberg join forces to launch a casual game, Boom Blox on the Nintendo Wii on Tuesday
By: Captain Maverick
Published: May 7, 2008
Updated: Feb 9, 2010
Electronic Arts Inc. and Steven Spielberg have joined forces in a multi-year collaboration that is to bring about three new original franchise properties. One of which launched on Tuesday, Boom Blox, is a casual game that will be available on Thursday in Europe, May 13th on Asia and in Japan on the 22nd. Built for the Nintendo Wii, Boom Blox takes players through about 400 levels of "strategic destruction".
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{slot15}On top of the 400 levels that come with the game comes a level creator allowing players to create their own levels. Basically Boom Blox is a strategy game where players solve single and multiplayer puzzles where the players can interact with more than 30 different characters such as block-laying chickens, or baseball-throwing monkeys in four themed environments - Tiki, Medieval, Frontier, and Haunted.
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According to EA Games, Boom Blox is a perfect game for the Nintendo console as it leverages the Wii's Remote features. But this also gives EA a chance to see what kind of value Mr. Spielberg brings to the table when marketing a new game. Spielberg has been the man behind games before but this is the first time he has partnered with a company behind an all new title without being preceded by a series of blockbuster films.
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