14 DAY TRIAL // To be honest, I have never considered drawing as the best party game in the world, but Sega wants to prove me (and everybody who agrees with me) wrong and it is planning to release Pictoimage, the game that will spice up all the parties you'll ever attend starting now. And, yes, as you can already imagine, it is a drawing game - both for those with skills and for those who have none.
Scheduled for a release in August 2008, Pictoimage will come exclusively to Nintendo DS consoles. Sega presents the title as a "pick up and play puzzle game", designed especially for multiplayer mode, where every person will draw an image of a word while the others race against the clock to find it. This doesn't sound like the most exciting thing ever, we know, but it might prove to come in handy if you have no other options or if your audience is too tired to play Twister. Or, who knows, maybe you only have artist friends.
Up to eight persons can play this party game and there are many gameplay modes available. For example, in the so-called Picture Pass, a subject will be passed from player to player in an image and the last one has to guess the subject based on the last drawing. Also, if you have something against parties, there is a single player mode available, but it would be definitely more fun to play it in multiplayer. At least, in the two-player mode, people have to guess an image from a library of over 300 drawings created by others (even though a fish is a fish - how hard can that be?).
In the end, it would probably be completely wrong to consider Pictoimage a game suitable for adult audiences, but kids will definitely love it. Now, everything you have to do is find eight kids, give them the game and see for yourself: is it great or not?