Customer Reviews

Block Party - 20 Games

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

Do NOT buy this game, don't even rent it.
Menu is basic, single & multi & music & sound levels. The music is actually nice, kinda Broadway musical feel. Too bad ITS ONLY IN THE MENU. There is NO music during gameplay. There are no sounds other then requisite 1-2 sounds of whatever your doing & a lot of giggling & "whoa" for no reason. The colors are bright & cheerful, but there is no texture, no nothing. It feels half done & halfheartedly at that.
There are a lot of bugs, in one that you are a human sling shot, you sail in the air, my character landed sideways & flat. In one balancing on the ball, one of the AI was a blond boy, when the game ended, it was a redheaded girl.
There are 4 sections to cycle through, each with 5 games, 2 of which are locked. You have no idea which game unlocks those & you must get 20,000 points.
The game styles are inane. Shoot SCARY looking 3D bugs that fly AT YOU complete with blood red eyes before they eat your cake, STUN the dog who ate your friend so you can pry your friend by their feet out of the St. Bernard's mouth. Follow the trace lines like a Rayman Raving Rabbid game w/o the personality, MANY shooting games: shoot clay targets, shoot your characters balloons, shoot the BOY riding in the free falling tire, etc. MANY hit the buttons displayed games one in which you are hanging on a metal chain over a evil plant in a pot who is trying to eat you, waggle & hit buttons to do tricks in the air like Mario & Sonic Olympics trampoline game w/o the personality & the flips aren't even programmed fully. Drink soda, fart into the air & try to hit the gingerbread cookie targets in the air on the way down, etc.
The text/drawing instructions make sense & work most times when it only involves buttons, though once the instructions were wrong by saying to shoot the OPPONENTS balloons to win, but the goal was to land which means shooting your own. Though the games has trouble recognize the movements correctly & sometimes doesn't respond AT ALL & even the IR for shooting feels sluggish & off. Anytime in the "rhythm" games w/o the music, if it asks you to swipe to left/right or up/down, it rarely works. Even pushing forward to launch yourself in Sling shot doens't respond the first 3x. Some games are even insanely difficult for anyone, much less a child.
Balance ball - using nunchuck stick to balance left & right (constantly moving) & on the wii mote hit A or B as they quickly for 1-2 seconds scroll under your character.
Chariots of Fruit - no, you pull a baby wagon of fruit & run like M&S Olympics. But no matter what you're still last & the score doens't even make sense.
High Wire hangup - balance the wii mote to walk across. But if the ball in the rectangle telling you where the balance is, the ball & rectangle falls lower on the left, you don't bring the right side down which would make gravity sense, no, you drop the left side LOWER. Same for the right side.
Crazy Clothesline - ok, if the above wasn't hard enough, you do that PLUS you move the nunchuck's stick in a circular fashion because now you're on a short unicycle.

this game was poorly done, from controls, to gameplay ideas to looks. this is PURE shovelware, this is NOTHING good in it. DO NOT FEED lazy & cheap programmers by buying this or EVEN renting it. Your wallet controls how much time/effort companies put into games, don't let them even think this will make them money.

I don't usually review items but thought this was worthy of review. based on description and front cover view, this is not what i thought I was purchasing. Expected it to be along the same lines of Game Party and it is not. I wanted lawn darts and lawn bowling and ended up with crack pot games like Trash Tossin, Garage Juggle and Crazy Clothesline. Even though the product description clearly mentions lawn bowling and the picture represents lawn darts and horseshoes, this game contains neither. VERY MISLEADING!!! Greatly disappointed.

I made the mistake of purchasing this game BEFORE reading reviews. I'm hoping you don't do the same thing. Even after reading the bad reviews, I figured there was bound to be at least one game that's decent...after all, there are 20 games on the disc. The game is relatively inexpensive, so how can I expect every game to be a star? Right? Well, there isn't a single good game on this disc. Block Party is worse than terrible. Games include balancing on a ball (using the Wii Nunchuk joystick) while juggling (pressing A and B) and tracing a squiggly line with the Wiimote. We couldn't even get multiplayer to work. I'm taking mine to UPS tomorrow to send it back. Ugh, what a horrible waste of money. Save yours!

My boyfriend got this for me for Christmas to go with my new WII. After trying it, he stated that "It isn't worth the disc it's written on."

He was definitely correct. The games inside are NOT what's on the cover. So, be aware of that advertising fraud.

Also, the controls are horrible.

Do NOT buy this for your children as it will not help hand-eye coordination if your child points and clicks, and the game says they are wrong when they are right. That would be like playing a Trivia game where the system didn't even know the right answers.

Don't waste your money on this garbage!

From the picture you would expect, bowling, bocce, frizbee, lawn darts, horseshoes, etc.....Not a single one of those games is in this game. The only games you have are some bizarre collection of lameness. Trash toss???? Shooting flies before they eat your cake??? Dragging a cart filled with stuff across a yard!! My wife and I are pissed! Unfortunately you can't take it back once it's opened. I think I will save this one for my 5 year old Grandson to play as it would probably be fun for him. Like another reviewer said the bizarre giggling toddlers (it's like they took the sound track from Teletubbies or did a recording at a preschool during recess) who mumble while you are playing, "mmmm...okay...mmm okay" it gets quite disturbing after awhile. I'm actually very disappointed in Activision....they used to make great games....I'd rank this one as better than ET for the 2600 but that's about it. DO NOT SPEND YOUR MONEY ON THIS!!! Listen to me and the others....don't waste your hard earned cash.

I rented this game. (I am making it a point to rent before I buy especially so for the wii games). This game is an insult to all the wii owners out there. Even the free flash games have better graphics than this game (and no it has nothing to do with the graphics power of the wii). Gameplay is dull, all the so called mini-games end even before they begin. Please don't buy this one. I wonder why it still sells for this high.
Someone should have blocked this Block Party from being released on the wii.

This game is misadvertised in my option. the pick on front cover is not which actual games are in the game. you also have to win the games before you can move on. it is not worth your 20.00, thanks

Bought this game thinking my 8 year old daughter and I would have fun playing it. The description looked great, and the actual game is not. The sounds the little characters make are annoying, the games are not good quality, and some are even impossible to do. Even my 8 year old never wants to play it. From now on, I am checking reviews when I buy a new Wii game. This one was the biggest waste of money.

This game is not a very fun one, hard to understand and a lot of the items are locked.

the games are decent but not the most fun or easiest to play

my 4 and 6 year olds often got frustrated