Business Week has a full preview on Steven Spielberg's upcoming game Boom Blox for Wii.
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Hollywood writer/director/producer Steven Spielberg was driven to create a game around the universal, "compulsion to build something up and knock something down," an EA producer tells us. "[Spielberg] would talk about when he got a train set as a boy; he'd spend hours building it up just to cross the tracks and watch the trains explode."
One look at Boom Blox and it's easy to see that inspiration under the hood. The game's training, single-player, multiplayer and create-a-level modes all center around using the Blox by knocking them down with projectiles, triggering nearby explosives or grabbing and manipulating the Blox themselves (as in the Jenga-like game where you pull single Blox from a stack, careful to not topple the entire tower).
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