Blast Works Crazy Cheap at Best Buy

Filed in archive Deals on July 29, 2008

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So, what would any good Wii owner do when a recently released game that's got a metascore of 83 suddenly gets a drop in price? You'd get excited, run to the store, and buy that game.

That's what you all should do here with the innovative side scrolling shooter Blastworks. Now, I don't normally get too crazy over small discounts, like a $40 game being sold for $30. But this is serious: Best Buy is selling the game for just $10! Even on my paltry budget, that's impulse purchase territory, and I quickly arrived home from the box store with a copy of the game in my sweaty palms.

Keep in mind with Blast Works, though, is that you get so much more for your money. That's because the crux of this game is its very robust editor system, which approaches pro quality- you can literally make an entirely new shooter, complete with new bosses, enemies with shot and flight patterns you dictate, and more. The good news for the large precentage of you who probably don't want to invest hours and hours learning stuff is that you can already use the Blastworks website to "que up" custom content downloads, which are then downloaded directly to your Wii via WiiConnect24 (you don't have to download on an SD card and transfer it over, you can just do it directly in-game once you que up what you want on the Blastworks website).

The actual single player game is a fascinating Katamari Damacy like concept: detroyed ships attach to yours, increasing you abilities, but also making you an ungainly monster.

There was only two copies left at my local Best Buy, so I suggest you all hurry.