Boom Boom Rocket! Detonates Over Xbox Live
Bizarre Creations, creator of Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved, and EA bring Boom Boom Rocket to Xbox Live today. BBR has the honor of being the first music-rhythm game on Live Arcade and will set you back about 800 points. In BBR, you "trigger rockets to the beat of the music while traveling through a 3D cityscape." The better you do it, the more spectacular the fireworks are and all that jazz. Ian Livingstone, who recently did the score for Project Gotham Racing 2 and Batman Begins (the game), has ten tracks to which the fireworks have been choreographed.
Ten tracks seem like a very small number. Hopefully more tracks will become available as time goes on. We'll just have to see. In the meantime, here are some of the other features the game has to offer:
- Two single player gameplay modes – Normal and Speed
- Two single console multiplayer head-to-head modes – Battle and Endurance
- Practice Mode
- Freestyle mode – No target line or scoring, just mash buttons to create cool fireworks shows
- Earn up to 12 Achievements and 200 Gamerscore points
Boom Boom Rocket is now available in North America and will be coming soon to Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore Australia, and New Zealand. I'll be checking out the demo as soon as I get my 360 back...which, by the way, I'm shipping today! Anyways, I hope this won't be a Fantavision-ish clone...P U. So far, the rumblings 'round the internets have been good. If you want to see some screenshots with rainbow range of colors and more details about the game, make the jump! Ahhh, they remind me so much of when there is a holiday at GG Castle.
PREPARE TO LAUNCH – EA'S BOOM BOOM ROCKET EXPLODES ONTO XBOX LIVE ARCADE
Highly-Anticipated Music Rhythm Game Arrives on Xbox LIVE Arcade
Chertsey, UK – April 11, 2007 – Find your rhythm and get ready to set off the biggest round of fireworks, as Boom Boom Rocket™, the first Xbox LIVE® Arcade game from Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS), explodes onto Xbox LIVE Arcade today. The game is a hypnotic rhythm music game conceived by EA’s Pogo.com™ casual games design team and developed by Bizarre Creations, the developer who brought fan-favorite Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved to Xbox LIVE Arcade. Boom Boom Rocket will be available for 800 Microsoft Points, first launching in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and is rated 3+ by PEGI. The game also will be available in the near future in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand.
Players find their groove in Boom Boom Rocket, by triggering rockets to the beat of the music while traveling through a 3D cityscape. The fireworks are choreographed to 10 original tracks created by Ian Livingstone. Players can play in single player mode or go head-to-head against a friend on the same console, making it a perfect social game. Easy mode allows players to get comfortable with the controls while Endurance mode challenges the savviest of Boom Boom Rocket players with its intense speed and complexity of fireworks triggers. Loosen things up with the fun-for-all Freestyle Mode, or watch your favorite tunes light up the sky with the built-in Visualizer.
“The joint effort between the Pogo.com creative team and the talented team at Bizarre Creations evolved the idea into what the game plays like today. Seeing people’s response to the game itself has been such a great experience – it’s what making games is all about,” said Spencer Brooks, EA’s Boom Boom Rocket Producer. “We’re so excited to give Xbox LIVE Arcade fans this new game and have had so much fun playing it ourselves – you can’t help but have fun playing this game.”
The game features three modes of gameplay: Normal, Speed and multiplayer head-to-head. Each song is choreographed into three skill levels to ensure that everyone can join in the fun. Successfully chain fireworks to fill the bonus meter and activate the psychedelic bonus mode for extra points. Players can unlock new firework designs by mastering each music track. Players can utilise the connected online element and see how their scores compare with other players on the Boom Boom Rocket leaderboard.
Super Timsy
Posted to Video Games on 11 April 2007
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This game is probably a lot more fun with a dance pad. I tried the demo, and it just felt like I was playing Flash Flash Revolution, which, by contrast, is free.