Jenga World Tour

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Title: Jenga World Tour
Format: Wii
Price: RRP £24.99
Wi-Fi: No
Players: 4

Graphics
The graphics in Jenga world tour are not stunning by today’s standards; however they are more than expectable for a low priced game. In the foreground you have your jenga tower, the tower is made from blocks, and these can vary from wood, ice, lava or many more things. The background is your living room, jungle, castle it really depends where in the world tour you are. The graphics for this game do exactly what they need to do. its not getting a full 10/10 because some of the effects are rather poor.

Graphics: 7/10

Audio
The music in this game is awful, its unfortunate, the almost arcade soundtrack has a life span of about 3 jenga matches, you can turn the music off in the options. The sound effects are really good in this game, as you remove a block you hear the tower creek as you see it rocking, depending on the background you get various sounds coming from the action, it could be the sound of dinosaurs to a water fall. A rather low score here, Once you remove the music there isn’t much left.
Audio: 4/10

Gameplay
The game play is where this game starts to shine. Its jenga, nothing new, except you don’t have to clean up when it falls down. There are lots of modes including single player, quick jenga and world tour; at a glance it’s hard to tell the difference between the modes. The difference really is what you get too choose.

You can set up standard jenga matches in quick jenga to jenga matches where the blocks freeze together. In World tour you have to play your way round the word, here you can not choose anything, your aim is to beat the computer, in this mode the world throws things at you, on the volcano you can only touch blocks for a short period of time, on the castle people fire projectiles at you and in the jungle the dinosaurs walking about makes the tower jump.

A high score on gameplay, as they threw in lots of modes and options.
Gameplay: 8/10

Controls
At first it feels a but complicated, i advise playing the tutorial, it will teach you everything you need to know.
This is a remote and nunchuck game, you have a finger pointer on screen, which you move by pointing the remote. As your pointer passes over blocks, you will see a green (easy) or red (hard) outline around the block, select the block by pressing A then the remote really becomes the block, as you remove it from the tower by moving the remote towards you.
Placing the block it done buy moving the remote to guide the block down, you can use shadows and the green outside to guide you to a safe landing. Thrusting the remote isn’t a option in this game as this is a steady hand game. Another high score, the controls make this game
Controls: 9/10

Innovation
Brilliant use of the wii and its technology, Its an original video game version of the classic family game, with a few twists thrown in to make it exciting.
Innovation: 7/10

SUMMARY

Its surprisingly good, im not sure my whole family would get it though, im not sure if its going to be played much in my house by anyone but me, which is a shame, I think maybe it should of had other board games thrown into the Disc, 10 classic board games or something. Worth £24.99? Real jenga is £10, this does things real jenga can’t not do but you can make dominos out of real jenga. I think this will be one to rent before you buy.

GRAPHICS: 7
AUDIO: 4
GAMEPLAY: 8
CONTROLS: 9
INNOVATION: 7

OVERALL RATING: 70%