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83
The variety in creating your Ping Pal is immense and chatting with your friends hasn’t been this fun since AIM.
56
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
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
It offers an interesting avatar and coin system, an average instant messaging program, but not much else.
39
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
Regardless of its "additional" content it offers over "PictoChat," Ping Pals is easily the most unnecessary product for the system.
33
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
There is no reason in the world to own this product when "Pictochat" basically does everything at least, equally as well.
30
Five mini-games aside, there’s no real gameplay value here.
30
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.
