Steven Spielberg’s Boom Blox Released
Steven Spielberg and Electronic Arts have worked together to create three new franchise properties. The first of them – Boom Blox – was released last week as a casual game that takes players through 400 levels of what has been called ‘strategic destruction’.
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.
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.