S'up, y'all. Just another friendly reminder that I'm not dead, but instead am crushed by the sheer audacity that is college. Granted, I'm doing my best to churn out some animations, but the process is incredibly slowed down.

I can, however, promise that I will be a participant for the Metal Gear Collab. All I can say about the animation itself is that the humor will be based directly on actual dialogue or elements in the game (in this case, Metal Gear Solid 3), so if you haven't played the game... well, you probably won't get the humor.

At any rate, let me get to the original point:

Steven Spielberg's BOOM BLOX for the Wii

Seriously... just look at this. Pure awesomeness in a nutshell. What totally sold me on this was the Editor mode (be sure to catch it at 1:10 in the video; the physics in this game is incredible).

Now, in order to combat what I hope isn't the expected 'kiddy' shit responses that we seem to get these days, understand that the art style is a perfect lend for this kind of game; it's all about taking a huge tower of blocks and finding the best way to knock it down, i.e. blowing it up. Before I forget to mention, you can kill critters, too.

And in order to combat the gameplay complaints, AKA 'not a shooter/slasher/etc.' that seems to be the only genres fitting for 'hardcore' games (seriously, it takes every ounce of my strength to use that freakin' word), I should point out that you can find videos of Crysis all over YouTube whereas modders exploit the game engine in order to just create giant towers of barrels and find the most unique ways to knock them down.

In a nutshell: physics are fun. Not the class; but the game engine. The only criticism I can think of thus far for this game is the price tag, as it'll be worth $50 at retail, but I see it as a day one purchase for me because of how long it will last:

-400 levels
-Single player story
-Single player challenge
-Co-op
-Competition
-Editor
-Online sharing

If I had to add anything else... I think Boom Blox can be the Wii's unofficial answer to the PS3's LittleBigPlanet.

*EDIT*

The Creation of Boom Blox