Gamers can now design their dream home on the Nintendo Wii or DS. Majesco Entertainment Company has just announced that Our House: Party! for Wii and Our House for Nintendo DS are now available at retailers nationwide. In these creative games with a do-it-yourself approach, players strap on their tool belts and complete home improvement projects with one goal: to build a house that becomes the envy of the neighborhood.
The mini-game explosion has birthed many titles based on many different topics. You have games that are nothing more than compilations without a central theme. You also have mini-game compilations based on sports, cruise ships, carnivals, cooking, gardening, sleepovers and casinos, to name a few. Just about anything seems to be fair game for being turned into a mini-game compilation. Majesco's latest attempt at this genre is to combine a massive amount of mini-games all themed around home improvement. The result is Our House Party! and if you've played a few of these themed compilations before, you know what to expect from this one.
This is definitely a game geared towards kids, and while it will probably work with the younger set, anyone over the age of 10 or 11 will, most likely, be bored. There is a good variety of mini games for them to play, and other than the time limit, the tasks are not complicated.
Game Guys writes: "Corporately-sponsored games are nothing new. In fact, older gamers probably have fond (or not-so-fond) memories of the NES games Spot! and Yo Noid! of 7-up and Pizza Hut, respectivley. It's one thing when they come out and say it by doing something like putting the company's current mascot on the game box. It's another thing when it sneaks up and hits you with a brick, and that's what happens with Majesco's new game for the Nintendo Wii Our House Party. It is 100% Home Depot sponsored with the company's logo and products places all over the place. The brick in question, by the way, is in the garden section."
