The uDraw Game Tablet for the Wii pairs a large stylus pen and drawing tablet with a Wii Remote to create a versatile, entertaining and useful tool.
uDraw Game Tablet with uDraw Studio
For: Nintendo Wii
Price: $129.99
Rating: Everyone
The tablet itself is lightweight and easily handled, with a slot on one side for a Wii Remote to be inserted for standard Wii control functions.
The stylus features a button along one edge and a pressure-activated tip.
The tablet is packaged with "uDraw Studio", an impressively full-featured drawing and painting program. The free-form Paint mode lets artists choose a canvas texture - whiteboard, cardboard, chalkboard, concrete, newsprint and others - and a background setting, such as a park or footpath.
There is also a variety of colouring book templates, with permanent line drawings that can be coloured in as the artist likes.
The studio's toolkit interface offers a range of options - players can select their brush type and size, fill enclosed areas with paint, select and customise palettes of colours, browse and choose from a large selection of stamps, and apply various filters and other effects.
Finished works can be saved, transferred to an SD card and printed out or emailed from a computer.
uDraw Pictionary is one of the few other titles compatible with the tablet.
uDraw Pictionary
For: Nintendo Wii
Price: $59.99
Rating: Everyone
Similar to the recent DS release of Pictionary, this version benefits from the higher resolution and greater drawing area the Wii provides.
The game doesn't have the DS version's clue creation mode, which uses the DSi camera, or its Pictionary Quiz, but it does have three modes: a game of standard Pictionary; Pictionary Mania, which introduces special conditions, such as limited ink to draw with, or drawing blind; and a free-draw mode.
