I've played Uno in real life, and after trying this electronic adaptation, I have to say I prefer the original. The onscreen colors are bright, to be sure, but there's little if anything in the way of a tutorial, so those who have some catching up to do are going to be left in the dust rather quickly. The card figures with which you have to play are too small, and play against the computer proceeds at a very fast clip, leaving the intermediate player to wonder what's going on. The rendering here doesn't quite resemble the tabletop game from which it was taken: there's little space between the team members' spots, the ability to move between different elements on screen is sludgy for you but rapid for everyone else, and the whole thing felt like one of those unproductive races to the finish line you might expect from some routine alien battle game. Come on. For a participation game, they should have tried harder to make it easy to participate.
Most of us have heard of the card game 'Uno', it was invented back in 1971 by Merle Robbins. Now, 35 years later, the game arrives to the Xbox 360 as an Xbox Live Arcade game. The game is rather simple, and is reall... Read Full Review
By DeathHeart95 | Review Date: Aug 11, 2008 | X360
We have all played Uno, which is a great card game with friends and family, but on your 360, it's only better. You have single-player, which is against three computers, and multiplayer, which is on Xbox Live and you can... Read Full Review
