Bomberman

Although it fails to visually inspire any sense of awe, Hudson’s creation astounds the player by taking Nintendo’s advice and creating something fresh with a formula that’s existed since the eighties. Well done!

The multiplayer mode is the star of the show. [Aug 2005, p.84]

This wasn’t a game created to win any design awards. It was created to give any DS owner the power to turn a roomful of friends into squealing, scheming, cursing, laughing Bombermen, and as such, it’s hard to imagine why anybody would want to be without it. [Aug 2005, p.96]

No long-term thrills unless you have lots of friends with the same consoles.

It just goes to show that a great party game can indeed survive on multiplayer gameplay alone.

On a console as truly different as the DS is from anything before it, a Bomberman game should feel much more new than this one does. We’ve been here, we’ve done that, and once the 8-player luster wears off -- if you can get that many DS systems in one place to begin with -- the empty steps to nowhere taken by Hudson become very, very clear.

Great multiplayer, boring single player. Needs wi-fi support to really fulfill its potential.

Bomberman’s raison d’etre, Battle mode, is once again its saving grace. [Aug 2005, p.110]