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- Reviewed on: 12/04/2006
- Released on: 11/19/2006
- Originally published on GameSpot: Big Bumpin' (Xbox) Review
Big Bumpin' is one of three games being sold at Burger King as part of a limited-time promotion. Each game is available for around $4, provided you buy some food to go with it. And all three of these games are pretty bad but weirdly compelling nonetheless. Rather than the despicable acts usually associated with product placement--the Burger King's appearance in Fight Night Round 3 immediately comes to mind--these games are top-to-bottom advertisements. But because you know that going in, it doesn't feel particularly dirty. All three games have been developed by Blitz Games, the company responsible for the Xbox minigame collection Fuzion Frenzy. And it shows, because most of these games have the depth of a minigame. Big Bumpin' is the most minigame-like of the three, giving you several different styles to play while putting you behind the wheel of a bumper car. The problem is that none of those styles are fun for more than one or two matches.
The action is the same across all of the different games. You control a bumper car with the left stick and boost by pressing the A button. You can take on the different games in a tournament format by themselves or in multiplayer or Xbox Live modes. Then you can choose a character from a list containing the King himself, the Subservient Chicken, a few generic Burger King window workers, and the King's on-again, off-again girlfriend, model-turned-bad-TV-hostess Brooke Burke. With her role in EA's 2004 racing game, Need for Speed Underground 2, Burke is certainly no stranger to the fast-paced world of illegal video game racing, so she's obviously a perfect choice for Big Bumpin'.
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