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Create your very own Ping Pal based on your own individual style by choosing from thousands of different options. Then, trade, play games, discover secret code words, and share your Ping Pal with your friends to earn Coins and unlock cool new items that make your Ping Pal really zing. Find and collect all the hottest gear for your Ping Pal. Only one Ping Pals game is needed to start playing and chatting. Play games and chat with up to 16 of your friends at the same time. Thousands of different items to customize your Ping Pal. Swap and trade gear with your friends to collect the coolest stuff for your Ping Pal. Play mini-games (like Hot Potato, Doodle, Top Ten, Pick a Number and Solo Chat), solo or with up to 16 of your friends, to earn valuable Coins that you can use to unlock new items. [THQ]
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more... 83
Nintendojo
The variety in creating your Ping Pal is immense and chatting with your friends hasn’t been this fun since AIM.
 56
Nintendo Power
The touch-screen keyboard is very small, almost ensuring that you'll make a few spelling mistakes as you peck for letters. [Feb 2005, p.115]
50
NintendoWorldReport
Chatting with Ping Pals is completely functional, but manually typing text gets annoying quickly, and the more intuitive and fun drawing feature is simply inferior to "PictoChat."
40
DS Central
It offers an interesting avatar and coin system, an average instant messaging program, but not much else.
39
Nintendo Insider
The biggest flaw here is conceptual -- Ping Pals has been rendered nearly useless with the superior PictoChat (as far as the messaging features go, anyway), and the shallow games do nothing to really boost the game.
35
IGN
Regardless of its "additional" content it offers over "PictoChat," Ping Pals is easily the most unnecessary product for the system.
33
GameSpot
In essence, Ping Pals is "PictoChat" with a lousy personality, and there's absolutely no reason why you should waste your time with it.
30
GameZone
Five mini-games aside, there’s no real gameplay value here.
30
Cheat Code Central
There is no reason in the world to own this product when "Pictochat" basically does everything at least, equally as well.
30
Thunderbolt
If only more time were spent developing a more stimulating AI, or adding a better selection of mini games, then things may have turned out differently. But for what Ping Pals offers, you can’t escape the feeling you’ve been cheated out of your money.
25
Console Gameworld
If you're older than 10, spend your money elsewhere.
20
PALGN
Ping Pals is like paying for a trial sample of chips, you get the same thing, but you paid for it.
20
GameSpy
Unless you absolutely must look at a cartoon character while you chat, there's no reason to buy Ping Pals. Otherwise, just stick with "PictoChat."
10
1UP
If it existed on its own, it would be mediocre, but as it stands it's completely without value. This is less a game to be played than buried in a landfill in the desert.
5
Electronic Gaming Monthly
An abysmal failure. [Jan 2005, p.143]
0
GMR Magazine
It may go down in history as the least necessary game of all time. [Feb 2005, p.113]
0
Gaming Age
All things considered, there's absolutely no reason to even contemplate the purchase of Ping Pals.
Ace :) gave it a0: Vicky gave it a4: Lea H. gave it a9: Clay gave it a2: Bob L. gave it a0: Damian S. gave it a0: Adam R. gave it a5: |
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