
… Which was always how multiplayer gaming with strangers online always used to make me feel!īut as well as all of the traditional bomb-kicking, bomb-punching mayhem of the classic Bomberman game, the PS3 version boasts a brand new feature: Now with 7-person local and 8-person online multiplayer, Bomberman ULTRA will encourage every player who picks up the controller to blow stuff up! Hudson Entertainment, the game’s publisher, make the quite worrying claim: So now PS3 players can play with other players anywhere in the world… while drinking! Does it still count as drinking alone if you do it while connected to other people via internet magic?

In “Ultra”, as with the other download games, you can play with up to eight people, online. The fun in Bomberman games is always in playing with other people or, well, trying to blow other people up, preferably while drinking. XBox 360 and Wii owners have been able to download their own Bomberman games, “Live” and “Blast”, since 20, and “Ultra” is the third in the online, download trilogy.

Now, PS3 owners get to work out the answer to that question for the ages with the first game in the franchise to reach their console of choice, “Bomberman Ultra”. Bomberman – super-deformed ultra-frenetic table-top terrorist, or high-speed pioneer of the party game for over 20 years?
