Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PSP, Buena Vista Games, £30 (tested on a PSP)

Despite a critical savaging, the new Pirates Of The Caribbean movie is still packing them in, not least to witness Johnny Depp's priceless Keith Richards impression, which, non-coincidentally, is the only thing the videogame of Dead Man's Chest gets even remotely right.

Wandering between pitilessly dull skill-free sword fights, broken up by intelligence-affronting "puzzles", play proceeds through a series of dimly lit and visually tedious levels.

Depp provides his voice, and Jack Sparrow flounces around the screen like the foppish drunken pirate he is, but a combination of clumsy controls and a near- religious devotion to avoiding creativity and innovation in any guise make this a work of stultifying mediocrity and one to avoid no matter how dearly you love the films or the Rolling Stones.

source: The Guardian
published on: August 19, 2006
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