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Majesco Goes Wii
Product: Majesco's Wii Games
Company: Majesco
Date: 07/18/2007
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Majesco is releasing two Wii titles by the end of the year, Blast Works: Build, Fuse & Destroy and Furu Furu Park.

Blast Works: Build, Fuse & Destroy is based off of the online game Tumiki Fighters. Both games help to show that graphics aren't everything. In Blast Works, you fly a simple looking space ship (comprised of basic geometric shapes) across a side-scrolling battlefield and shoot everything that moves. As you destroy your enemies, they break up into simple geometric shapes (or groups of these shapes). This wreckage can then attach to your ship and make you bigger, or if it is a gun that gets stuck to you, increase your firepower.

As you progress through the game, you collect more pieces. These pieces can be used outside of the game itself to build your ship. You can customize your ship in many ways, not just by its look, but also its weapon style. Blast Works feels like an odd mix between Katamari and Magic Pengel since you spend half of your time building up a big ball of parts, and the other half designing your ship. Blast Works: Build, Fuse & Destroy will come out in October.

But your ship isn't the only thing you can alter in the game. With the built in level-editor, you can create your own worlds and enemies. This is bound to be one of those quirky games that will be on everybody's shelves.

Majesco's other Wii title, Furu Furu Park is an odd mix of classic games, but with new twists that make them more suitable for the Wii's controller. You will get to play variants of classic games like Arkanoid and Bubble Bobble as well as other games like Super Karate, Sonic Blastman 20XX and Safe Cracker. With 30 mini-games designed after these and other classics, your goal is to try to win the most squarse on a board by winning matches. Furu Furu Park is slated for release this Holiday season.

J.R. Nip aka Chris Meyer

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