After the obscenely big Christmas dinner, the pudding that follows, the wine and everything else, it's easy to just fall onto the sofa and watch the same Christmas movies that have been playing for years and of course, watching the Queen's Speech is required, as well. Then it's time for those horrible Christmas games, such as Trivial Pursuit and Pictionary. Fortunately, there's no need to be embarrassed by drunken drawings anymore as SEGA have brought out PictoImage which is very similar to Pictionary, but on the DS.
If you're thinking of getting buying PictoImage just for yourself, do yourself a favour and save your money. If on the other hand you have a few like-minded friends who all fancy giving it a go, there's enough variety in the multi-player modes to entertain you for a good while, and with its budget price it's good value. Even so, there are dozens of better multi-player DS games available, which makes it very hard to recommend PictoImage with any confidence.
This is most certainly a game geared towards children with the cutesy music and the 'how to' drawing parts. It beats Bakushow hands down in every department but the single player is extremely short and with little replay value aside from the multiplayer components you may find yourself trading it in not long after the purchase.
Eurogamer has posted their DS roundup which features 3 DS titles. The scores are as follows.
Prey the Stars - 9/10
Subbuteo - 4/10
PictoImage - 5/10
Bakushow - 2/10
Driving Theory Training - 3/10
