Bomberman Land

There was a tech demo on the new Wii version:
LOS ANGELES–Hudson’s loveably explosive mascot is coming to the Wii in Bomberman Land, and we were able to get our first hands-on time with the game in Nintendo’s booth at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2006. Though the game stars the upbeat demolitionist made popular with a long-running series of manic, multiplayer-focused puzzle action games, what we played of Bomberman Land was a far cry from the gameplay that people might associate with the name.

The demo on display consisted of three simple minigames, each of which made use of the Wii controller in a unique way, though all of them only used the remote, and not the nunchaku controller that we’ve regularly seen attached in other Wii demos. We started off with Mountain, which was a stationary shooter where we had to use the remote to shoot down flying balls of hot magma that appeared to be spewing out of a gigantic volcano in the distance. Though there have been other Wii games where using the remote as a pointer seemed a bit twitchy, in here the targeting reticule seemed to move rather fluidly across the screen. Things started off easy enough, though we were rather quickly bombarded with a number of flaming balls that came from all over. Though there didn’t seem to be any limit on ammo, the game definitely encouraged accuracy by giving you point combos for each consecutive ball that you shoot without missing. Just when we thought that we weren’t going to be able to keep up any longer, we hit the maximum point limit for the game, thus ending that part of the demo. Hurray for Bomberman!

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