The aim is to avoid being captured by a farmer and still manage to carry the cow back to the UFO. As you run around the level trying to find a cow, there are farmers.

Odd premise aside, itвЂ™s a pretty enjoyable game. You then need to capture cows and bring them back to your ship. In Alien Havoc, you play a little 2D alien, who has crash-landed on earth. Brainpipe is difficult to grasp and will almost certainly not appeal to everyone, but it is completely and utterly original and unbelievable addictive. There is no tutorial or instructions, just complete bewilderment. As your progress through a level, the speed at which you travel increases, but you can use the x button to slow it down a bit. You move the nub (or d-pad) in order to collect objects that come your way, or avoid ones that you donвЂ™t want. You control what seems to be the inside of an eye (looking outwards) down some sort of wormhole which is coloured in all sorts of trippy shades. Practically impossible to describe, the only thing I can think of that bears any similarity is when you boot up a game by UbiSoft and you travel through the purple UbiSoft logo, like a time-warp вЂ“ or even better, the opening credits of Dr. Well, I hope not, but I imagine what goes through his brain while being the Mayor of London must be pretty similar. 7/10 Д®ssentially, Brainpipe is like being inside Boris JohnsonвЂ™s mind. Extremely addictive it may be, but it doesnвЂ™t move the game on in terms of originality or push the limits of what can be achieved with PSP Minis, instead, Tetris just plays safe. Neatly, you can watch replays of expert Tetris players which really show the depth of such a seemingly simple game and makes you wonder if they actually do anything else with their lives. Being a вЂњnewвЂќ version though means bright colours and a remixed soundtrack (one thatвЂ™s not as good as the original) and you canвЂ™t help the feeling that some things have been tinkered with for no reason other than itвЂ™s now 2009 and not the 1980s. I think most people have a place in their heart for Tetris (it was my first ever computer game) and know how it plays. Well, what can be said about this? It everyoneвЂ™s favourite block-busting game, Tetris, on the PSP. Glitches like this seriously hinder a game that could have been a mini GoW or Onimusha. I had to restart the whole level (not even from the last checkpoint), which was bad enough, but then, second time through, an enemy I needed to kill in order to progress managed to get stuck himeself and I couldnвЂ™t kill it. The sound is awful, the fighting is incredibly repetitive (no combos, just mash square and triangle) and worst of all, itвЂ™s very glitchy: on one occasion I got near the end of a level, only to actually get stuck in the graphics. So far, so expected, and it sounds like a good Mini, right? Well, no. Square and triangle are your main attacks and for bigger beasts there are quick time events just like KratosвЂ™.

In Hero of Sparta you play a rather angry leftover from the film 300, hacking and slashing your way through mythical creatures. Sounds like a great title for a TSA Challenge, then: 8/10 ДЄ God of War-a-like title for ВЈ3.49 doesnвЂ™t sound too bad, and considering its price, you do get 8 levels and about 4 вЂ“ 5 hours of gameplay. ThereвЂ™s loads of levels, but I have some kind of self destructive urge to not only get the Brick score for everything before moving on, but also beating it by as big a margin as possible. Getting gold is easy, вЂBrickвЂ™ scores are for the hardcore.Д«last Off, then, plays on your desire to better yourself. The simpler levels play out the best, with the best score (the game offers a challenging set of score levels for every mission) usually achieved with pixel perfect aim and launch build-up вЂ“ if you can collect all the spacemen and land on the pad without using extra fuel or turning too much your score will be much higher than if you had to correct yourself and re-aim mid-flight. Of course, other planets and various hazards soon make their way into the levels, causing gravity issues amongst others.

Controls, too, are childвЂ™s play: hold down X to build up launch pressure, aim with the d-pad, release X and then make adjustments to your flight path with the same buttons. The idea, like all great games, is deceptively simple: you must blast off from your launch planet, pick up a few stragglers floating in space, and fly through the landing platform in order to beat each level.

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