Maybe you have already succumbed... Maybe not, but it won't be long.
Draw Somethinghas become in recent daysa real phenomenon
across the Atlantic and the English speakers of other countries succumb like
dominos.Because we might as well say it right away: the only fault of
Draw Something is currently only available in English, which
won't stop the smart guys equipped with Google Translate.
But what is Draw Something? It's a Pictionary where we do
guess a word by a drawing, which is played online and against your equipped friends
an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, an email address or an account
Facebook. It may seem ordinary said like that: howeverthe
result is additive as possible. To confess everything, the author of these
lines has stopped playing any other games for a week and continues
daily games at any free time. A DRUG THAT YOU TELL YOU
:
First of all, you must create an account, via your Facebook account or your
email address. Rest assured, the application will only use one or the other to
activate your account and send you your password even if it is possible
that she posts on your Facebook wall if you wish (to check or uncheck
in the options menu). Then, you have to create a nickname that is not
still used: Draw Something uses its own game system in
online, Game Center and Open Feint not (yet) taken into account. And finally
you have to find friends. The “Free” version of the game is already rich in
possibilities, and therefore free, it is not very complicated to convince a
buddy to install it. And then it's gone!
You can then launch as many games with friends as you want.
wish.Each round takes place in three stages each time
:
1/ You see your friend discover (or not) the word that you drew during
the previous part.
2/ You must in turn discover a word that he draws for you.
3/ It's up to you to draw a word that he must discover.
The stroke of genius of the game is to have known how to play between the "delayed" and the "time
real". No, you do not play live against your friend: you each play
on your side and Draw Something sends a notification to the other when you
are finished. So it’s delayed. However, when a player begins his
part, he sees in real time how his friend found the word (his choices of
letters are displayed live, its errors and hesitations are therefore obvious).
Because when you draw, Draw Something memorizes each of your strokes, your
eraser strokes, your hesitations and your restarts, in order,
still cutting during the replay the moments when you have nothing
done for long seconds or minutes, still ensuring a certain
dynamism to this “live broadcast”.
The games follow each other without us realizing it and the ultimate goal
quickly becomes a chain of successes (because they are counted). Draw Something also brings
quite a few little subtleties: a bomb allows for example to eliminate
useless letters when you get stuck in front of a drawing. But these are
very rare (5 at the start) and are very expensive. Because each turn allows us to
choose from three only three words, the difficulty of which is increasing and
the proportional reward. Getting people to guess “Gorilla” isn’t very complicated.
and will only bring back one gold coin. Making people guess “Alone” is, on the other hand, more
complex and, if successful, will bring three coins to each of the two
players. A word with one coin, a second with two coins and a third with three
parts, are offered to us each time. And it will take a few hundred
coins to buy five new bombs… The game also allows you to buy
colors to vary the designs. And in-app purchases for cash
are also possible, of course.
Moreover, many fans of the game have embarked on the creation of
increasingly complex drawings, those of Firefly and Planet of the Apes
below being particularly bluffing:
In short, a real phenomenon is emerging around this game, the
number of followers growing every day at an exponential speed. We hope
obviously a French version soon, which should not
late in arriving since the company behind the game, OMGPOP, has just been
bought by the giant Zynga.
And you, did you give in?
- Find Draw Something in a free version here on the App
Store - The paid version (2000 additional words) is currently
on sale at €0.79 here on the App Store.
The application is of course universal and recently optimized for the New
iPad and its Retina screen.
The pluses:
– Without doubt the most addictive game since Angry Birds or Cut The Rope!
– The free version, already rich in words and possibilities.
– The paid version adds 2000 words. Yeah!
– iPad compatible and of course better suited to the tablet.
– Already optimized New iPad
Cons:
– When will the French version be released?
– No recognition from Game Center or Open Feint.
– We no longer want to play other games.
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By : Keleops AG
