Blast Works is a very interesting game, and it's nice to have it as a Wii exclusive--even though it makes no use of the Wiiremote's motion sensing controls and only uses the pointer for menu selection. This is a side scrolling shooter that offers tons of variety if you're willing to put the time in to customize levels, ships, etc.
The "campaign," which is just a series of different levels without any plot (not that that's surprising), is decent. It's not great, but it serves its purpose of offering an enjoyable set of missions to pick up and play. It also pretty challenging, and it says that you can play it with two players (I assume simultaneously rather than alternating, but I'm not completely sure). You can unlock some extras (one of which is the Japanese game that Blast Works is based off of), but I haven't unlocked many so far.
What's really cool is that as you kill enemies, you can fly into them before they fall off the screen which attaches them to you. Through this method you can have a massive amalgamation of enemy parts and ships that shoot along with you for added destructiveness. They can be destroyed off of you, but if you keep it up you can virtually fill up the screen!
The big appeal of this game comes from the customization possibilities. Although it takes some time to understand how it all works, once you figure it out you will be making stuff that you couldn't have imagined! You can create enemies, ships for yourself, levels, bosses, etc. There are tons of different types of parts you can use, you can make your blaster shoot in an insanely large variety of ways, and you can even decide how much defense your enemies have. You can create ultra complicated bosses that consist of multiple parts, that fire 10 different kinds of blasts, and are virtually impossible to defeat. Make them big or small, mobile or static, gun crazy or not. Whatever you want to make, you can make it.
The only real problems with this game are rather minor overall. One is that even though you can customize so much, you still have to customize within the bounds of the visual style of the game. Your creations won't be able to look like stream-lined jets or anything. However, you can still create some pretty cool stuff.
The music is definitely sub-par. It's pretty mellow and boring, but not a game-breaker.
The other problem is that it seems to freeze relatively often when loading between screens. It doesn't happen all the time, but it's more often than all of my other games.
Neither of these issues are a particularly big deal, IMO. Although the freezing problem made me knock my review down to a four rather than a five, it doesn't make me regret purchasing this game. For the price, it's really a stellar game. If you like this type of shooter and you enjoy customizing, this is the game for you.Buy Blast Works: Build, Trade, Destroy!
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