As for the ?online? component, I?m sure the network modes in Paintbrawl would be very exciting if the programmers had actually remembered to make them work. You can host a game over an IPX network, but the dialog box won?t let you actually connect to someone else?s game. This means that you can play over a network, just not with each other.
I found this exceedingly hilarious. How can you release a game like this? Didn't anyone ever try to play an online game? Did they test the game at all?