Those in despair at Fifa's apparent contempt and antipathy towards the country that (arguably) invented the sport it administrates can at least take solace in other sports this Christmas. England's cricket team may be looking good in Australia, but there is surely no Christmas sporting staple bigger than the PDC World Championship, darts's equivalent of the World Cup. Darts is a sport that the Brits still own and, in the form of Phil "The Power" Taylor, it has a superstar who dominates his sport in a much more colossus-like fashion than, say, Tiger Woods, Lionel Messi or Michael Jordan. Not bad for a chubby chap from Stoke.

Any mere mortal who has struggled to locate the treble-20 with regularity will know just how astonishing Taylor and his growing band of challengers are – but that's where video games can help. PDC World Championship: Pro Tour performs a classic function of video games: allowing us to gloss over our innate lack of talent and compete in virtual versions of the finest sporting competitions.

The latest version of O-Games' licensed darts offering completely nails the ambience of the PDC World Championship, with decent likenesses of the main protagonists, Sid Waddell's overexcited tones straddling the line between genius and nutcase, and even Russ Bray, the man who sounds like he gargles razor blades, calling the scores. Many of the season's other big events, including the Grand Slam, World Matchplay and UK Open, are also included, and the Las Vegas Desert Classic is already available as downloadable content.

Gameplay-wise, PDC World Championship: Pro Tour sensibly aims to recreate the darts-playing experience as closely as possible. This year, support for Sony's Move has been added, and it operates much like the Wii Remote in previous versions of the game: point to select your aim-point, then move the controller as if you were throwing a dart, keeping a button pressed and elongating your throw according to the dictates of a power-meter. You can choose between maximum and minimum assistance, although the former makes proceedings a bit too easy – you soon find yourself emulating The Power's feat earlier this year of hitting two nine-darters in a single match. Which is thrilling, but soon fails to satisfy.

Using a conventional joypad, the game is still thoroughly playable. Darts fanatics will love it, as it really does give them the chance to emulate their heroes in meticulously recreated, and deliciously unglamorous, locations such as the Reebok Stadium.

Basically, it's just like playing real darts, but with things such as your dodgy aim and inability to throw with the correct weight factored out of the equation. Which does somewhat beg the question why you would want to play virtual darts when you could just go out and buy a dartboard. If the idea of playing darts on a console does appeal, though, this is as good as it gets.