We hate to be mean, but we have to wonder how closely the world's best-known film director was involved with the concept for Blocks. It doesn't exactly take the most creative person in the world to come up with "throw a ball at some blocks." We suspect that this one wasn't just phoned in, but phoned in by proxy by an assistant who was also on vacation. Either that or Spielberg has been cultivating this idea since he was 2 years old.
Yes, the hyped PQRS project is Blocks, a puzzle game about knocking over structures of blocks by hucking stuff at them. Some of the blocks explode, some cause chemical reactions, and most just tumble. It looks like it would be pretty fun for a Flash game. The most interesting part of Blocks is the in-game level editor, which allows you to go all Incredible Machine on some block structures.
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7-13-2007 @ 5:57PM
Patrick said...
Well yes this game is pretty simple for something that is told to us came from the mind of Stephen Spielberg. But the game actually looks quite entertaining. Really I think the set up levels would get boring fast, but being to create and share levels with people online will be awesome.
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7-13-2007 @ 6:09PM
Steve said...
Physics + level editor = Rube Goldberg machines
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7-13-2007 @ 6:10PM
hvnlysoldr said...
See little LEGO blocks. They look like nothing. But you got some dedicated people and they can replicate the real world monuments.
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7-13-2007 @ 7:08PM
Damian said...
these kind of games makes people say the wii is for kids
looks stupid to me
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7-13-2007 @ 7:57PM
tiamat1990 said...
The freaking hosts "Ohhhh..."'s are fucking annoying.
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7-13-2007 @ 9:02PM
Jonathan Tran said...
lol this game looks dumb but here's the kicker:
They could add jenga gameplay as a side game, and completely PWN the jenga game coming out
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7-13-2007 @ 9:22PM
Rich said...
How disappointing! Blocks? After all that excitement about Spielberg developing games for Wii and for it to turn into this? Of course, I can't really judge until I play it myself, but wow, Blocks? Really?
This game should be a Wii Ware game at most.
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7-13-2007 @ 9:23PM
zourskittles said...
@5 haha i couldnt agree more, around half way in the video with the level that says 'huh' with some other blocks he pracically has an orgy. "OOOHH AAHH OOO AAAHH!!"
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7-13-2007 @ 10:06PM
Chris Putnam said...
Did he just splatter those anthropomorphic cows?
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7-13-2007 @ 10:20PM
Lee said...
This IS coming on the WiiWare channel for a few quid right?
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7-13-2007 @ 11:24PM
Ghen said...
He calls it a toy, and I agree. Blocks isn't a game.
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7-14-2007 @ 1:32AM
Charles said...
this would be awesome had it been on the wii channel, but i dont know about paying $50 for a bricks game, though the physics seem impeccable...
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7-14-2007 @ 2:48AM
BPM said...
Ya know, it didn't seem that cool from readin the description...
But watching that video? Awesome. Sorry, Jenga, your days are up, even before they began!
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7-14-2007 @ 8:53AM
Alan said...
How completely and utterly unimpressive. Sure, it might be fun for a simple puzzle game, but they don't really expect more than a few bucks for this do they?
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7-14-2007 @ 2:59PM
zwarrior said...
Disappointing
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7-14-2007 @ 3:08PM
zwarrior said...
I take that back, after watching the vid, it seems interesting. But, I'm still disappointed that the 360 and PS3 are getting this Epic like game and Wii're stuck with yet another puzzle generic party game.
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7-15-2007 @ 3:07AM
Rich said...
The only real fun seems to be in building the puzzles, but it takes a ton of patience for that. This game will land in bargain bins pretty quickly alongside Trioncube.
I was blown away by the PS3 game EchoChrome that was announced. That game looks cool and challenging; completely fresh and original. I wish this game was that.
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7-16-2007 @ 12:48PM
Rosella said...
Their company was founded on a question that's already been answered!
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/1902/advertisement2019882080re0.jpg
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7-30-2007 @ 9:16AM
croperz said...
Seems familiar.
http://www.bontago.com/
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