Rating: E - Everyone
The tablet is approximately 7x9 inches with a drawing area 4x6, comes with a fat octagonal pen and a space for a Wiimote controller that you have to supply. The six pageuDraw Studio manual that comes with the software barely does justice to the powerful capabilities of the product.
By now we have all experienced drawing and coloring in games, if not in computer art programs but this will give you the whole nine yards blown up on a giant TV screen. The Main menu accesses Paint - the free-drawing program where you can select your painting/drawing surface from canvas, news print, blackboard and many more and then choose your "environment": street, lake, park. The Toolkit screen is where you find all the media - palettes, color selection brushes, crayons, pens, chalk markers, sprays, transparencies and stamps. Custom sizing is easy to do. For those who face blank canvas shock there are numerous coloring books on many different subjects and all easy to fill with color. So many options - you have to experience them for yourself.
Fun Factor: Excellent drawing and paining program
Player Friendly: Easy to handle
Reviewed by: Editor - Apr/11
udraw Pictionary
Because there is now a drawing tablet, as the night follows the day,
there must be games to play on the tablet.
One of the first and obvious choices is Pictionary,
a guessing word game that was first published in 1985 (Wikipedia)
The board game format gets a lot of colorful improvements and sound effects that remind one of a game show excitement.
One person on a team draws an object, person, place or action and the other members of the team have to guess what it is.
A correct answer advances the team on the board by the number rolled on a die.
Different squares have different penalties - as you draw the ink runs out,
the screen rotates as you try to draw, you can only draw with straight lines and other amusing challenges.
The game requires at least two teams to play, but the more the merrier.
Drawing controls contain an adequate sub-set of the tablet's drawing
toolbox - drawing implements, fill, shapes, color picker, thickness.
More than you can use if you are playing within a time limit.
Reviewed by: Editor - Apr/11
SpongeBob Squigglepants - uDraw
If you want to experience Spongebob in his Squiggle mode instead of
his Square mode -you will have to do it on the Wii and the uDrawGame Tablet.
The back of the box advertises, "over 100 Nanogames for hours of frenzied play".
What they don't tell you is that the Nanogames are five seconds long.
You do the math. It's not a long game. But it is frantic and the tempo speeds up as the game progresses.
The tablet device functions both as a controller and a touch pad that allows you to do drawings.
The Nanogames make use of all these functions - drawing, tilting, flicking and other stylus moves to solve the puzzles.
The drawing styles "taken from the vault" are interesting and were probably done by artists trying out a new personality for the Bob.
The setting has the Nanogames concealed behind red drapes against a wall - an unimaginative set if there ever was one.
All this is not helped by the painful acting of Patchy the Pirate who acts as the MC.
Beware of poor games developed just to make use of theses new peripherals - and I include the 3DS.
Reviewed by: Editor - Apr/11
Rating: E - Everyone
Fun Factor: A revitalized Pictionary
Player Friendly: Easy to handle
Rating: E - Everyone
Fun Factor: Must like five second games
Player Friendly: Confusing - could use some explanation