- Challeng your friends in the 5 player battle mode!.
Product description
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Kaboom! That's the sound you'll hear when Bomberman World
explodes onto your Playstation this year courtesy of Atlus and
Hudson. While making his appearance on various platforms it was
just a matter of time before Bomberman would make his debut for
the Playstation.
From the Manufacturer
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Kaboom! That's the sound you'll hear when Bomberman World
explodes onto your Playstation this year courtesy of Atlus and
Hudson. While making his appearance on various platforms it was
just a matter of time before Bomberman would make his debut for
the Playstation.
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Review
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Although Bomberman World joins the last few Bomberman games in
its jump into the third dimension, it's actually quite unlike its
contemporaries. While both of the preceding titles broke away
from traditional Bomberman play in their own way, Bomberman World
returns to convention. It just does so in a way that's a little
more 3D than before.
The first-person scenario within Bomberman World is very
familiar. In fact, it can easily be seen as a polygonal version
of Saturn Bomberman - one viewed from a slightly more skewed
isometric perspective. As in SB, you fight your way through four
different elemental worlds (in this case, gathering crystals to
jail your foes with), each with its own distinct boss. And once
this is accomplished, you travel to a final area where the last
boss resides. As in nearly every Bomberman title, the basic
gameplay sees you in mazelike, block-filled environments, which
must be blasted through in order to reveal helpful power-ups and
clear enough room to properly destroy enemy creatures. There's
some slight graphical fandango in BW, but basically, the
structure remains the same. And the sound is noteworthy insofar
as that the voice-overs are even worse than Sega's translation of
Saturn Bomberman.
But if the Bomberman games have been about anything, they've been
about getting several of your friends in the same room and
blowing them to smithereens, along with a couple computer
nents. The multiplayer matches in BW are played on flat,
isometrically viewed boards, where you clear paths to each other
and through each other. Some new twists have been added to the
arenas, such as exits allowing you to go out one side of the
screen and come back in the other (by way of a mining cart, for
example, on an intertwining track), revolving doors, and
platforms that hover above the main playing field onto which you
can hop back and forth, to and fro. Also, new power-ups allowing
you to pick up and throw enemies or pass through walls, as well
as increased setup options, such as choosing which and how many
power-ups appear over a round, are features in BW. The variety is
nice, but there's something definitely missing from the mix this
time around, even if it's not easily identifiable exactly what
that is.
In comparing the single and multiplayer modes, in individual
play, while much the same as in earlier titles, the characters in
Bomberman World seem to move very slowly - a holdup that can
understandably cause much frustration since it counts for a lot
in a game where timing is everything. The multiplayer mode
appears to run a little faster, though the 3D nature of the title
is to blame for taking away from the fun in this case. Items are
often partially hidden behind objects in the foreground, enough
so that it's hard to identify what these items are. And the fact
that areas of the arenas can appear offscreen at times makes it
difficult for you to keep track of your nents. Overall, it
leaves you wondering if the series really needed to go the 3D
route. Perhaps 2D was the best bet for Bomberman after all.
While Bomberman World isn't a particularly bad game, per se, it's
clearly not the best representative of what the series has to
offer. It's a shame that the two best Bomberman games in recent
memory, Saturn Bomberman and Saturn Bomberman Fight!! (the latter
of which is import only), have been for the least popular system
here in the States. It's unfortunate that the first Bomberman
title for the Sony PlayStation really won't be wowing the new
players it's bound to attract. Here's to hoping that the next
titles find some better way of bringing back the game everyone
seems to have grown dangerously attached to. --Joe Fielder
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