By Cheezy

By Ian Daemon

By Apocalypse

By Hyper Metal Sonic

By tails100

Also, I hate when you're playing by yourself and the computers/yourself manages to kill you really early on. The battle seems to drag on forever.

By Big=Sexy

By WiiloveitOnline

By morphballer

Why on earth would anyone rank games out of 30? Weirdo.

By Junichi

When it comes to multiplayer games, Bomberman has always been a favourite. Whether playing with seven friends on DS Download Play, or connecting that dusty GameCube controller up to play five-player Bomberman '93 on the Virtual Console. When it comes to single player modes however, the game isn't so hot, so it will come as good news to many, that this WiiWare version is stripped of the usually dull single player mode (which was only included in the Japanese retail version this time) and focuses instead on the battle features.

In this new edition, as well as new levels, there are also several unique modes readily available as well, with missions including dodging bombs as they fall from the sky and obtaining a crown that makes you the king until you get blown up. These offer variety to the gameplay, and are still great fun, despite being different to the standard game.

One of the main new features has to be the updated multiplayer. With up to eight players on one console or online (with up to three local friends able to join you in battle), the game is most fun when you're against other people. This is all made even more addictive by the online leaderboard, in which you earn or lose points during online play to decide your final position (think Dr Mario), and the fact that you can always continue the fun when you are dead by throwing bombs from the side of the arena. If one of these bombs manages to kill anybody (despite their short throwing distance), you swap over and take their place in the game.

In addition to all this, you can play across the ten stages (with two being unlocked very early in the game) as your Mii (which is unlockable after playing all of the stages once), which adds a little more of your own personality to the game. All of the extra features and classic gameplay adds up to a truly memorable WiiWare experience, with our only niggle being that the action can sometimes get too frantic when there are eight players playing at once. The DS version managed to do it, but that was because the arenas were split over two screens. With just the one screen, you can often lose track of what's going on, and then find out you're at the other end of the stage to where you thought you were, trapped between three walls and a bomb. Oops.

Overall, if you're looking for a top multiplayer and online experience, this is the place to look. Don't expect too much from playing it solo, or you will be dissappointed.

Rating: 27/30 - Excellent

By WiiloveitOnline

Any friends codes posted on this page will be removed. Please keep your comments about the game :-p

By Dazza

By Jayenkai

By Mr.chippy

Not sure how it plays online, though, because there's nobody there!
Awwww :(

Still, Bomberman! Online!

Complaints.
1. The bombs seem to take about twice as long to explode as they used to. This either means A) Lots of Sudden Death lead death, or B) You'll be putting the timer up a wee bit. Something I've rarely done in a bomberman game.

2. The game doesn't initially lead you to "User Information".. But you need to go there first for "User Setup".. sigh Otherwise you just get a baffling menu that really seems rather odd!

3. I can only assume that a complete moron coded the keyboard.
A) We've a pointer, let us use it, rather than good-old-fashioned dpad stumbling.
B) Shift inexplicably does not capitalise the letters!!!! It only does the number/symbol shift, instead! You have to use Caps to capitalise the letters..!

4. And, did we really need 270+ blocks for bomberman? Really? Bomberman 93 was only 34 blocks. 3D models aren't exactly small on space, but when all your 3d models are the size of your thumb, you can lay off the polygons a bit! I can only assume the music is a batch of high-quality mp3/oggs instead of good-old mods, midis and other space saving formats. Come on Wii-ware folk. Get compressing those games! At least a little bit!!!
I now have only 10 Wii channels.. 10!! And 100 blocks of data remaining.
I had about 30 channels pre-WiiWare.
This isn't Nintendo's fault.. Smaller games = Happier people!

By Jayenkai

By cr00mz

Hey guys, so there is confirmation you can use a GC controller?
According to the new post comment it does and you can even have 8 on one system (i'd wait for a second confirmation of this though). Also I would imagine such info to be in the manual.

By Starwolf_UK

By Pocketim

By Mr.chippy

By Abodi

By Kenji510