Boom Blaster actually looks pretty decent. An army of robots have gone rogue and decided to stage an uprising against the Confederacy. You’reBoom Blaster actually looks pretty decent. An army of robots have gone rogue and decided to stage an uprising against the Confederacy. You’re a prisoner of the Confederacy that has been sent to stop them to be forgiven for your sins. To do that, you’ll have to overcome a horde of robotic enemies as well as your usual spike traps, pits and lava pools.
Sounds cool right? Well, Boom Blaster really doesn’t live up to its story. Within a few minutes of starting the game I had to restart from a random freeze. I started up realizing my game didn’t save and I had to really restart. So I did, with my feathers a bit ruffled I carried on only for the same freeze to happen again and again the game kept freezing even after system full reboot. This wasn’t even the only glitch I found. There are issues with the achievement system too. On my first play, I didn’t earn any when I should have unlocked a handful. My first reset seemed to fix the issue for a while, until they stopped unlocking again for some reason. This isn’t a big issue for those that aren’t achievement hunters, but it’s completely the type of game achievement gamers would buy. Unfortunately, it doesn’t get any better from there. Because when it does work, it quickly becomes clear that Boom Blaster is full of questionable design that only serve to frustrate you as the complete lack of a save function is perhaps the most annoying, because it places you at the mercy of the game when it inevitably freezes up. You might get lucky, and end up losing progress, or end up having to play through the same level multiple times. Then there’s the strange choice of control scheme. Boom Blaster has you use the LB to jump, and the RB to shoot. This makes the game feel awkward and hard to control. Using the trigger buttons would have been a much better option, especially because you’ll be using both sticks to move and aim. There are many more poor design choices within the game but instead of going on and on, I’ll say this. Ultimately, Boom Blaster was a bad experience for my review time with it. The only blasting I wanted to do by the end was deleting it off my Xbox. I don’t recommend it to anyone because I feel the game is too flawed to recommend to you. I’m sorry to be blunt but pick up one of ChilliDog’s other published games like Restless Night or Karma Incarnation 1 from the Xbox digital games store.… Expand
