A few weeks ago, EA's Casual Entertainment Label offered GameDaily a chance to play Boggle, Connect Four, Yahtzee and Sorry Sliders as part of its Hasbro Family Game Night product (Battleship and Sorry! weren't available for play yet). After playing several previous Hasbro video games over the years, our expectations were arguably low. Yet, after playing the new versions of games for Wii and PlayStation 2, it appears that EA might actually bring Hasbro's list of games into the 21st century later this fall.

Connect Four, our first pick, presents a classic version of the game with the addition of a mode called Power Chips. While the goal of the game is still the same strategic version of getting four of your colored chips in a row, the Power Chips add a taste of modern gaming. The power chips aren't exactly a new concept but do offer an added level of strategy with names like: 2X chip doubles your score, Bomb chip annihilates seven surrounding chips, Weight chip crushes all the chips beneath it and the Newton Chip falls but takes out the chip at the bottom of the column (yours or an opponent's). While the game is only for two players on a single screen, Connect Four also offers a Tetris-style indication as to what your next Power Chip will be, which can help new players and really help seasoned players.

Boggle presents up to four wordsmiths a way to test their speed more than ever. Just like the classic Boggle, players are given a board with 16 letter labeled dice. Once the round starts, plays point their pointer over their first letter, which turns red. Then you select the second letter in the word and so on. Once you have a word, you submit it to your list. If it's a real word and another players hasn't discovered the word already, you gain a point for it. Over the course of several rounds, as in the real game, you'll discover who the true wordsmiths are. In our case, Kyle the demo guy schooled us.

Sorry Sliders is Hasbro's upcoming game where you're presented with a new version of the classic Sorry! Board but all your pawns actually have little balls under them, in order to make them slide. The gameplay concept is an interesting blend of marbles meets shuffleboard as you slide your pieces up to the center Sorry! Circle in the hopes of getting closest to the middle. Of course, with up to four players also trying to do the same thing, your pieces can get knocked out of the circle or even knocked over. With the Wii remote, Sorry Sliders is super fun and a welcome addition to the game series. Of course, Hasbro plans to release a board game that's similar but we can't imagine it being more fun than the Wii version.

Yahtzee, a classic game that's so good that many wonder if dice were created just for it, also was available to play. Presented by Mr. Potato Head, who serves as the host for all of the games, one to four players roll their dice and hope for a chance to yell out Yahtzee. The version we played was more of a direct translation of the real-world game, as you decide which dice to keep on hand and which ones go back in the dice cup for another spin. This version of the game still had a ways to go as some of the design elements (like the need for an on-screen button map so new players could see which buttons operated different functions and grayed out vs. black text for scores seemed confusing).

While we did get limited time with the games, EA promises that each game will offer new gameplay options, game modes, animated tables and other digital items that players can earn, they're holding off on announcing those specifics until a later date.

Our biggest issue with the Hasbro Family Game Night is its name. Sure, families will enjoy the four games we played. But after playing a heated match of Connect Four between two guys got ugly, it was fast and competitive and ran nice and smooth, many of the games should offer gamers without families a great deal of enjoyment too.