The Building Blocks of Human Civilization

When humans first ran, they wanted to see who could run fastest. When humans first threw, they wanted to see who could throw farthest.  I remember a time on the beaches of Santorini when some friends and I had a rock-throwing contest as our muscles gleamed in the Mediterranean sun like the bronze gods we were.  More relevantly however, since people started building, they wanted to know who could build biggest.  The Pyramids, the Great Wall, the Patroness Towers... need I say more?  And what Danish toy manufacturer capitalizes on this very primal urge?  LEGO.

The name of the game is LEGO Builder Bots.  That's right, now you can satisfy your unrelenting, animalistic desire to put blocks together in order to create pixilated renditions of pigs, flowers, and court-jesters simply by moving your mouse!

You control a LEGO catching machine which snatches appropriately colored blocks (which are of course, falling from the sky) and turns them into little robots.  These robots then build a structure for you.  When the structure is done, you win the level for big points.  Other stuff falls from the sky too, like funnels (makes your LEGO catcher bigger), feathers (makes everything fall slower), magnets (attracts blocks to you), and other bric-a-brac.  These are fun, but the good times are really about little robot guys building some ridiculously huge LEGO thingamajig while techno and quaint sound effects fill the air.  If you are patient (like, 5 seconds) you can build bigger bots.  They cost more blocks but they build the structure faster, give you more points, and last longer without breaking down.  In the "arcade" version the computer decrees what bot you build, but in the "advanced" version you choose what bot to build at time.  Trust me, it's way more fun to choose.  Finally you can play on easy, normal, or hard.  The difference mainly is that the blocks fall faster in hard mode.  Frankly, I find it makes the game easier cause of the higher BPS (blocks per second).

All in all, this game is a fun waste of good time.  There is only an iota of thinking and strategy, but that isn't the point is it?  The point is I want to know what the heck my robots are building!  If that means spending a few minutes rolling the old trackball then so be it.  On a more philosophical note, I like the whole meta-building experience... building robots, which are themselves builders.  Of course in the end all you are really building are chains of 1s and 0s, so my recommendation is to use the $19.99 you would spend on the game, and buy some actual LEGOs (or Playmobile if that's your thing).  Build something with your own two hands!  Your primal urges are calling!  Build like you have never built before!  Oh and did I mention that the first structure you build in the game is a pyramid?

Barmus Nerndy

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