Tag: Hasbro Family Game Night: Boggle
Hasbro Family Game Night: Boggle Review
by admin on Feb.02, 2010, under Review
May 29, 2009 –
Electronic Arts has teamed up with toy and game maker Hasbro to bring some of your favorite childhood board games to the Xbox Live Arcade. Dubbed Family Game Night, this collection of kid-friendly classics can be downloaded to your Xbox 360 hard drive and played on your TV screen rather than your nicked-up kitchen table.
To get Family Game Night up and running, just grab the free download (236.6MB) from the Marketplace and then open it up in XBLA. Once it’s installed, you can download the individual games for 800 Microsoft Points (USD $10) each from within the Family Game Night front-end. As with all XBLA games, trial versions are also available for each title.
For our all-encompassing review of the entire interface and its collected games, head over to our overall Family Game Night review. This review focuses solely on one of the classic Hasbro board games available for download: Boggle.
Boggle is a word-find game. You mix up 16 dice that have a letter on each facet instead of a number, then try to create words by connecting dice that are adjacent or diagonal to one another. A die can only be used once for a single entry but you can snake around the playing field to create long words. Lengthy words are worth more points and players simultaneously scour the dice for possible combinations. Boggle can be played with up to four players, both locally and online.
It has been reported that Beastie Boys’ Ad Rock is the king of Boggle and there is none higher