It's not been a great year for film tie-ins. Actually, has it ever been a good year for film tie-ins? As a sub-genre, they're legendarily lazy, linear adventures, nailed together from bits of old games and cut scenes, and frequently designed to part unaware parents from their hard-earned in the run-up to Christmas.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, the game of the zoo-animals-in-the-wild animated sequel, doesn't quite fall into the cynical cash-in category: despite lacking the original voice cast, it's colourful and frequently funny, with varied games and great kid appeal. It's a shame then that the result is less cohesive whole and more disjointed collection of mini-games. Some of these – zebra v lemur football, a stealth mode with the sinister penguins – are genuinely good but, frustratingly, you have to suffer a lot of highly repetitive, simplistic action (and some awful camerawork) to find them. Anyone over 10 need not apply.