*Must Play*
On the surface,
Sketchbox 360 appears to be a sort of digital Etch-a-Sketch with a groan-inducing name. And in a way, this is exactly what it is. But it’s functional, lets you save your drawings (the full version does, anyway) and even offers three sketch-based mini games.
One such game, “Bumpers,” is actually quite entertaining. You have to bounce your little smiley face through a series of increasingly complex levels, quickly drawing surfaces for it to bounce off of in order to avoid certain doom. This one little single-player mini game by itself would be worth 80 points, easy, but you also get games made for two (Trace Race) and four (Sketchet Ball) players in the same package.
The package itself is even impressive; sporting sleek menus, a “built-in” MP3 player (i.e. jukebox) and a very believable 360/Etch-a-Sketch hybrid to draw on. There a shocking amount of content to be found in
SketchBox 360, and it would be in your best interest not to pass it over simply because it looks like “one of those not-a-game games.”