Hasbro Family Game Night for Wii…seriously? |
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| BY Luke Walker May. 16th, 2008 | More on: |
As April sales show, Wii is dominating in hardware sales; but, as almost any gaming forum will show you, it’s still being hounded about a lack of great third party titles. Example: EA’s Casual Entertainment Label has just announced Hasbro Family Game Night which will help us all enjoy Battleship, Yahtzee, Boggle, Connect Four, and Sorry! “from the comfort of your own living room.”
Really, doesn’t at least half the world have these games already? I know I do. Mine are crammed in the closet behind my Jr. Karate trophy and my old SNES collecting dust. As a family man, I do see the appeal to casual games and games that bring the family together, but we could just dust these relics off sometime, right?
Ok, I admit that I am being a little harsh. Likely this game (also coming to the PlayStation 2) will be very cheap and these are classic games. Plus, EA has tried to add more to the party — the game is hosted by Mr. Potato Head! They also threw in some new game modes like Connect Four Power Chips, Boggle Portal Cubes, Reverse Yahtzee and Battleship Barrage as well as new mini-games like Match the Pattern, Shake for Words and Bomb Run. Players can even decorate their own digital game room with trophies and furniture.
Hasbro Family Game Night is being developed as part of a licensing agreement between EA and Hasbro that lets them make games and toys of each others products. Hasbro Family Game Night is just one of the first official games. We can expect to see more titles like Nerf, Tonka and Monopoly.
If you’re really into classic board games, Hasbro Family Fun Night will be there for your needs this fall. For the rest of us, be thankful Wii has much more to offer — MADWORLD anyone?
May 16th, 2008
at 10:38 pm
How could you be angry at anything that brings together Connect 4 and Mr. Potato head? I bet he cheats at Connect Four. I don’t trust thos eyes of his.
May 17th, 2008
at 6:57 pm
“From the comfort of your own living room” - isn’t that what the original board games do already? Oh well, I’m sure hordes of mindless parents will buy their little children this game.
August 20th, 2008
at 8:48 am
At least you don’t have to waste valuable storage space housing the actual board games - dumbasses.
November 29th, 2008
at 4:19 pm
With a 2 year old in the house, you can’t get board games out. He clears the board pieces off as you play or gets into them and loses the pieces. So this will allow us to still play games with our daughter without worrying about losing pieces or disruption of the game! :)