Boom Blox Review

By Chris Hudak

When buildings collapse!

Here’s one that couldn’t sound worse ‘on paper’, as they say. “It’s, you know—like the old wooden blocks kids used to play with? Like, before television? And you start the game off with ‘em stacked up, and then you kind of throw things at them… and knock them down, you know…”

And for the most part, that is…

  • Simple, addictive, intuitive gameplay
  • Unique Block types
  • Great party game
  • Suitable for both kids and inebriated adults
  • Full-level editor
  • Tons of replay value
  • Occasional force-recognition hiccups
  • No obvious community-sharing
  • Less-than-precise editor-level placement
  • Clumsy, needless escort challenges

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Chris Hudak
Chris Hudak

Chris Hudak is a writer, former San Francisco Zoo penguin recorder, frequent-flyer junkie, self-proclaimed lucid dream expert, poolshark-in-minnow’s-clothing, “student” of all things Japanese, borderline alcoholic (see “writer”), video-gamer-with-a-life, and moonlighting, kinda-sorta actor in his copious spare time.  He writes weird fiction, and contributes articles to Playboy, Wired, The Toronto Star, and whoever else has money.  Chris is the protagonist of the Harlan Ellison short story “Keyboard”—no, really—and someday wants a house in Walt Disney World.

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