Eidos/PC, PS2 (£29.99)
Coupling the average game developer’s love of puerile swearing with the 1992 film that features the “f” word 252 times should be a marriage made in heaven. It doesn’t quite come off, but it’s not for want of trying.
The game does its best to live up to its “18” certificate from the off, as the colour- themed characters from the film take you through tutorials in shooting, creeping around and the fine arts of hostage- taking and murder. Once the game proper kicks in, you will need all of these to escape from banks and scuttle down alleyways in a series of imagined scenarios that don’t appear in the movie.
It’s rollicking good fun all the way, let down by the short, repetitive nature of individual levels and the fact that only Michael Madsen of the original cast appears in the game.
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NIGEL KENDALL