Despite not having massive sales Bloom Blox was a pretty fun game and ended up making my essential Christmas buys list.  Not put off by these low sales Steven Spielberg and crew are hard at work on its sequel; Bloom Blox Bash Party.

Hoping to increase awareness (and hopefully the fun factor) EA are vastly increasing the amount of features compared to its predecessor. Firstly there’s a whopping 400 new levels, including settings such as water and zero gravity. To go with that are new characters, new tools, blox types - such as virus and conveyor blox - and blox shapes.  Not happy with that? Well, there’s always the ‘extreme’ factor;

“In BOOM BLOX Bash Party we are taking the game elements to the extreme,” said Amir Rahimi, Senior Producer. “In the original BOOM BLOX, we really focused on perfecting the game’s physics so now we can push the boundaries of physics, offering exciting new challenges and completely new ways to play.” - Kotaku

Unfortunately there’s not a challenge of how many times you can fit ‘physics’ and ‘new’ into a sentence.

Obviously Steven himself is excited;

“Boom Blox Bash Party is a wild social gaming experience. We know families and friends really enjoyed playing the original Boom Blox together, so we designed more explosive multiplayer experiences with Boom Blox Bash Party.” - Reuters

Finally the game is jumping on the bandwagon by offering user generated DLC. This allows players to create and share their own levels over the internet, and also download and rate levels from EA and other players.

You can pick up the original Bloom Blox  for as low as £14.99. It’s one of the few decent Wii games out there anyway.