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Holiday Gift Guide- Boom Blox Bash Party for Wii

November 13, 2009 By

BoomBloxBashI know that the original Boom Blox game was a big hit for Nintendo when the Wii first came out, but I had never played it. Now that I’ve played the follow-up game, Boom Blox Bash Party, I can see why it was so popular!  This game is TOTALLY ADDICTIVE!  It seems like such a simple concept, use the WiiMote to “throw” a ball at stacked blocks and try to knock them all down in the fewest number of throws, but it’s not that easy!  In this game, there are more than FOUR HUNDRED single and multiplayer levels, and you have to use all your powers of deduction to figure out how to successfully clear each level.

And, the towers of blocks aren’t just ordinary blocks, either. There are Virus Blox that cause a chain reaction and “infect” all the blocks in their path, Chemical Blox that explode when they touch each other, and purple Vanish Blox that just disappear when hit, causing the blocks on top to fall down.  With the ability to move the camera angle almost all the way around, you just figure out a strategy and let the WiiMote fly, hoping you are aiming at the right spot!

Boom Blox Bash Party is an affordable option as far as Wii games go, at only $27.99 on Amazon. It’s a great holiday gift idea!

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Blue Dragon Plus for Nintendo DS

April 9, 2009 By

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Blue Dragon Plus is the sequel to the Xbox 360 Blue Dragon title, featuring the main character Shu and his army of humans and robots. The game play involves building this army and using the touch screen to move them around. You tell your army where to go and who to fight, and control their healing, with the ultimate goal of defeating a three headed blue dragon enemy.

Description:

The excitement of the hit Cartoon Network series comes to life with Blue Dragon Plus. Leap into battle, commanding up to 16 humans and Mecha Robos to fight against a horde of enemies, and revel in the edge-of-your-seat action of the game’s explosive real-time battles and shadow fights. Complete a thrilling single-player campaign that spans more than 30 hours of gameplay and incorporates engaging RPG elements like item collection and character progression. High-quality dual-screen FMVs showcase more than an hour of gripping story events, immersing you fully in the Blue Dragon world.

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Review:

I gave the game to my 10 year old son to play. He was enthusiastic about it at first, but got frustrated with the game very quickly.  Either he skipped over the tutorials at the beginning or there weren’t enough of them, because he couldn’t figure out what to do and where to go. There’s a companion Strategy guide available separately, but we didn’t get that and couldn’t find any online walkthroughs either.  He finally gave up because he couldn’t progress through the game.  My guess is that this game is for older players and especially ones who played the original Xbox 360 game and know basically what to do. More information about the game is available through this widget.

Buy It:
 Blue Dragon Plus for Nintendo DS is available on Amazon.com for $27.99.

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Friday night Pizza and Halo Night

December 7, 2008 By

For this weekend’s Parent Blogger’s Network Blog Blast, we’re supposed to talk about our family holiday game traditions, what games we play when we get together for Thanksgiving or Christmas. But my extended family doesn’t play games when we get together. We eat and talk, we clear the dishes, then we set back down with plates of pie and cups of coffee and talk some more. And that’s exactly what we like about getting together!

Instead, my family’s game tradition is Friday night Pizza and Halo Night. For the last three years, almost every Friday night, we order pizza, and then while I poke around online, Chris and the boys play Halo. They meet up with their friends on Xbox Live and form parties, take on other teams, talk trash into the headsets. It’s a weekly tradition that we all look forward to. In fact, any suggestion to have pizza any night besides Friday is always met with incredulous looks and protests that we would be disrupting the flow of space and time if we ate pizza on, say, a Tuesday.

Parent Bloggers Network wants to know what games you play during holiday gatherings. Email your post to parentbloggers@gmail.com by midnight tonight and you could win the Grand Prize:

Boogie SuperStar
Boom Blox
Brain Quest
Hasbro Family Game Night
Littlest Pet Shop
Monopoly
Nerf N-Strike
Travel Games for Dummies

plus 3 runners-up will get to choose one game from the above list! So hurry and write up your post and send it in for your chance to win!  You can read more stories about family game nights here, and check out more awesome games from Electronic Arts here.

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