It's hard not to appreciate Globe Clicker, but the scoring and clues could use some tweaking.

User Rating: 7 | Globe Clicker X360
Globe Clicker, released Dec 2 2009 by Maximinus, is currently one the most popular and the highest rated puzzle & trivia game on XBIG. It's hard not to appreciate a game that's focus is geography (I mean, I can't be the only one who finds it frustrating that Americans easily confuse Country and Continent!).

The gameplay is simple. Each round focuses on a different series of geographical markers, for instance world cities, countries, capitals, etc. For each turn in a round, as soon as the turn starts a timer begins as you turn the globe to place your pin as close to the location that you can. Points are then awarded for speed and placement accuracy. As such, the game is fun, informative, educational, and something that XBIG (and the larger gaming world) could use more of.

With that said, I feel that its a tad too easy to skew the score based on speed. Since is, albeit, 25% of the score (300 of 1300 points), but if you don't really know a location in, say, Africa, you can just very quickly pin a point in central Africa, get high speed marks and somewhat low location marks, and do just fine. If you had, instead, spent the time you needed to think about what part of Africa Dakar is in (the tip of west Africa in Senegal) you'd score less points due to lower speed, at least half the time. With that in mind, its easy to gloss the questions you don't really know the answers too, especially because the clue gives lots of info (City name, country, continent) so you can just guess. It'd be better if there was less given information i think. That's nice as a teaching tool i suppose, but less nice as a competitive gameplay element. Sure, getting the answer spot on does produce a bonus score, but it doesn't feel like it makes up for the difference.
Also, and this is more nit-picky, some questions are just alot easier because of a given country's size. Guessing a location in China or Brazil is far harder than in Haiti or Japan. Since location score is pure distance, it feels a little off when you pin rather close in a big country but don't score as much as a pure guess in a small country. Like i said, it's nit-picky but the point is, scoring should be better thought out.

Other than that, great game, good questions, good ol geography fun!

Rating 7/10