Today EA announced Boom Blox Bash Party for the Wii, a sequel to last year’s popular Boom Blox. EA will again be collaborating with Steven Spielberg for the new game, which promises richer multiplayer action and over 400 new levels with puzzles underwater and in space.

Boom Blox Bash Party will not only include twice as many multiplayer challenges as the original but team-based challenges too. The game will also include new blox types (including virus and conveyor blox), new blox shapes (for example, cylinders and wedges), and new tools.

In addition to throwing and grabbing, players will be able to sling, launch and blow the competition away with new cannon, paint ball and slingshot tools. You can also look forward to new blox characters. No longer content to watch from the sidelines, these blox characters are now blox themselves which players can throw, stack or launch.

Boom Blox Bash Party will also enable gamers to download new levels from EA as well as levels created by other blox fanatics using the game’s Create Mode. In fact this time you can create levels using the same tool set the EA development team used to create each level in the game. Pretty cool.

Developed by the EA Casual Studios, Boom Blox Bash Party is scheduled to arrive in North America and Europe in Spring.

“BOOM BLOX Bash Party is a wild social gaming experience,” said Steven Spielberg. “We know families and friends really enjoyed playing the original BOOM BLOX together, so we designed more explosive multiplayer experiences with BOOM BLOX Bash Party.”