As far as the tablet's functionality goes, I give it a solid B. Using the stylus is pretty instinctive, but it slides across the tablet surface with so little resistance that at times, the control feels slippery, especially given that the tip of the stylus is in fact a button that you push by applying a little extra pressure to the drawing surface — the equivalent of a mouse-click.
Packaged with the tablet is the uDraw Studio. Even if you haven't drawn anything on a computer since the days of MacPaint, you'll find this program familiar territory. The navigation isn't the most intuitive, but it doesn't take long to get the hang of drawing and using old friends like the paint bucket and the straight-line tool, along with their descendants on the "Post FX" menu and the rubber stamp tool, for when you just don't have time to, you know, draw.
I've never had the patience to get good at computer art creation-type stuff, so for me, this one's pretty much "uDoodle-for-a-minute-and-then-get-bored. For what it's worth, the tools are there for quality work, as evidenced by the creation of this uDraw portrait by Brooklyn artist and iPad finger-painter David Jon Kassan.
And while uDraw Studio does let you save your pictures in a gallery and offers the option of saving JPG or PNG versions on an SD card if you want to transfer them to your computer, I think it's a bit of a fail that importing images from that SD card isn't an option.
I'd love to be able to scan photos and put them into the Studio for some goofy family-time fun, in much the same way that the Wii's photo channel lets you mess with imported pictures. The former is an obvious choice, and my family took to this incarnation of the sketch-and-guess game from the start. In standard Pictionary mode, the game plays much the same as its pencil-and-paper counterpart, albeit with a game show-style announcer offering prompts and the occasional commentary, while the team's marker pieces and the game board take detailed animated form in a three-dimensional arena.
And the pixelated edition does boast an edge for sketchers in the form of shortcuts like straight-line drawing, instant shape creation, the "minus" button for a quick all-erase, and paint buckets for quick coloring. One drawback is that there's no head-to-head sketching because the game only accommodates one tablet — the "All Play" squares simply mean both teams guess at the same drawing.
This also means you'll have to come up with a house rule on ties, since, should both teams holler out the solution simultaneously, you're stuck having to either pick one as the correct guesser, or choose "no correct guess," which is as good as a win for the non-drawing side. The second play option, Pictionary Mania, takes the game into new places.
Instead of the board's colored squares representing clue categories like "object" or "action," they assign twists to the play itself. Land on an orange square, for instance, and you're stuck drawing your clue using only the straight line tool; blue means you can't lift the stylus from the tablet and must create your sketch in a single stroke; red means you're drawing with whichever hand you don't usually use.
By far the toughest is the pink square, which means you're drawing with your eyes closed. But where Pictionary and the uDraw tablet fit together like crayons and construction paper, Dood's Big Adventure struggles to make that connection. A console title based on the popular party game which utilises THQ's uDraw tablet.
Blowhole returns again in this Kinect-focused cartoon game from THQ. Named after the movie but not based on it, Kung Fu Panda 2 sees unorthodox kung-fu master Po battling sinister reptiles who seek to destroy his home village. A launch title for uDraw Game Tablet. Players use the Game Tablet and game to paint and draw on a blank canvas. Creations can be saved on SD cards and printed out on compatible devices. A video game adaptation of the drawing-based board game of the same name.
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