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“It’s feels like a Miyamoto game,” someone observes. “Yeah, it’s very first-party,” agrees another. Flying sheep-blocks and all, Boom Blox is destined to earn Spielberg some street cred (or whatever design of kudos it is that gamers bestow). Just what is Spielberg’s involvement? It’s his notion, EA insists.

An view so simple, it’s really only plausible for Wii. You just pitch a baseball at blocks — that’s it (well, sometimes it’s a bowling ball, bomb, or shotty blast … you get

the idea). But where so many senseless motion farts dissipate into the foul heap of Wii “mini-game” crap, Boom Blox stands tall, as a tangible actualization of what Wii games should, no, are supposed to be!

Continue reading Joystiq impressions: Boom Blox … a Steven Spielberg game

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