Moving blocks is an extremely hit-or-miss process. That all sounds like a good scheme, except that it doesn't actually work very well. The Wii controls let you pull at the blocks by holding A and moving the Wii Remote, tap them using the B button to push them out ever so slightly and get a better grip on them, and even pin down a couple of other nearby blocks to keep them from jostling around. On paper, Jenga World Tour seems as if it should have the goods to deliver a solid interpretation of the game. The players take turns until one sends the whole thing toppling over with an ill-conceived block removal, at which point the game ends. Putting Jenga underwater does not make it worth twice the cost of regular Jenga.Īs you would with the real game, you play Jenga World Tour by picking out one of the rectangular blocks that sit in the stack, do your best to pull it out without knocking over the entire structure, and set the removed block on the top of the stack. Couple all of this with the fact that World Tour costs twice as much as the real game of Jenga, and this stacks up as a pretty terrible deal. The game's physics are wonky as all get out, the artificial-intelligence opponents are either overpowered or brain-dead depending on the situation, and many of the goofily themed stages the developers tossed in to give the game a bit of a wacky flavor are so reliant on random chance that they cease to be fun instantly. That all sounds good in theory, except that Jenga World Tour also happens to be functionally broken. No cumbersome blocks to stack here all you have to do is slide out and stack virtual blocks using the Wii Remote. Jenga World Tour attempts to remedy that admittedly small annoyance by bringing the game of Jenga to the Wii. The actual act of playing this game of block removal and stacking is pretty fun, but goodness knows it's a pain to stack those things up again after the tower comes tumbling down.

The real game of Jenga is a love/hate kind of thing.

Jenga with shots