Hobbies And Interests
Our House: Party!
Released in September 2009 by Majesco, Our House: Party! allows you to buy and renovate a house with money you earn playing mini-games. The game has a tie-in with Home Depot and has a shopping component heavy with product placement. You actually do the renovations, as well, with the Wii-mote acting as the hammer, saw, or various other tools. Up to four people compete to create the house with the best value at the end of the game.
SimCity Creator and City Builder
EA added SimCity Creator for the Wii to their long-running Sim series in September 2008. Previously limited to a personal computer title, the City Creator allows for free play, with unlimited resources and no restrictions, in addition to mission mode. In mission mode, you̵7;re set up as the mayor with a specific building task, budget and time constraints. Of course, once the city is built, you can also destroy it with natural disasters, robot attacks or massive explosions. Using the Wii-mote rather than a keyboard commands allows curvy roads for the first time in a City Creator title. City Builder, coming in February from Collision Studios, layers building, water pipes, roads, and power grids to create cities on the game̵7;s four continents.
Boom Blox Bash Party
The sequel to EA̵7;s Boom Blox, Bash Party isn̵7;t actually a building game, but there is a building component. The original game̵2;and the bulk of Bash Party̵2;is actually deconstructing towers of blocks, either by pulling blocks, Jenga-style, or throwing various weighted balls. In Bash Party, however, you are now able to design and build your own levels before pulling them down again.
World of Goo
Another game that is only loosely a building game, World of Goo, a title that you download directly to your Wii, takes real physics and engineering into account while building passages and bridges for little gobs of goo. The premise is odd, but the puzzles are challenging and reviews of the game are nearly all positive.