Boom Boom Rocket is an amazing, quick game that allows for hours upon hours of fun gameplay, alone or with your friend.

User Rating: 8.7 | Boom Boom Rocket X360
By Icicle2004 | Review Date:
I played the demo for maybe 5 minutes before I realized I had to buy this game. It's got a really great soundtrack of techno remixed classical pieces including but not limited to: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, Moonlight Sonata (my favorite), and 1812 Overture. The gameplay is easy to pick up upon if you're familiar with Guitar Hero and Dance Dance Revolution, but even if you haven't played either of those games it's really easy to learn.

As colored rockets launch upwards you can either have them be the usual arrows from DDR, letters to match your controller's buttons, or just colors with no visual help at all. Each rocket explodes into a beautiful firework as you press the corresponding button, A B X Y, or direction on the D Pad.

The music is varied from Jazzy techno (Carmen) to fast Paul Oakenfold-like techno (William Tell Overture) to even slow and pretty piano with techno beats in the background (Moonlight Sonata). I'm a huge fan of techno/trance music so as soon as I realized that the game was techno in its entirety I was hooked.

It does lack online multiplayer, but makes up for it via different gametypes. I haven't missed online at all while playing it. It has the regular singleplayer to master at Easy, Medium, and Hard (and Hard difficulty is very difficult to master on some songs), it also has an endurance mode. My friend and I play endurance quite a bit even on easy difficulty because it increases in Speed (Beats Per Minute, BPM, is shown at the bottom of the screen) and loops 3 times, 5 times, or forever. Endurance is available in both single and mutlplayer modes of the game.

For singleplayer it also includes a simple press-the-button-and-a-firework-explodes (Freestyle), for little kids who don't want to go with the rhythm or find it too hard, a practice mode so that you can hit the Left Bumper to slow the song down to master the fast sequences of a song (and trust me they're far from few), and a visualizer that launches rockets in sync with your music, like Windows Media Player but with fireworks. The visualizer is really cool and it does a very nice job of staying in tune with your music. I put on a hard rock piece and the blue fireworks were going off with the bass, it was pretty sweet.

If you're not willing to plunk down quite a bit of cash for Guitar Hero II or DDR on the 360, this is a really great, cheap alternative that provides great fun.

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