365//365: Day 330 – Uno (360) [PP]

"One decked out multiplayer experience." 

If you don’t know the card game Uno by now, then you haven’t lived! The card game required more than one person playing, with the premise being the person who gets rid of all their cards (without forgetting to say “Uno!” on their last card), wins. Remove the cards, add an Xbox 360 controller and invite three other friends, and you have one of the most enjoyable multiplayer games ever. Visually, the simplicity helps keep things focused upon the cards and the game, as your avatars are the most sophisticated characters on screen. Gameplay is mostly dependent on the luck of the draw as well as the color on the playing field in relation to the colors in your hand. There’s just one major deficiency to the video game incarnation of Uno — the dirtbag AI and its seemingly cheating ways. It seems as if any version of electronic Uno (MSN, 360) or any video game based card game (Magic: The Gathering, Culdcept Saga), has the AI programmed to constantly pick the most perfect deflection to anything you do. You get an Uno? The CPU will magically pull out skips and draw 4′s. It is the most maddeningly absurd AI routine you can find, and it renders the single player UNO completely frustrating, and all but useless. But hey, why would you play Uno….uno? Grab a few friends, get some snacks, lay back and enjoy the good times with a multiplayer session of Uno. One of the most infinitely replayable video games ever.

One of the most enjoyable and simplistic multiplayer games you'll ever come across....just don't bother playing it solo. The cheating CPU will mead to broken controllers.

Rating: 9.2