Mike Anderiesz 

Surf’s Up

PS2, £19.99, cert 3+, Ubisoft, 3/5
  
  


From what feels like the umpteenth penguin movie this year, we get the inevitable multi-format spin off; and, like Happy Feet, it knows its limits. It's a surfing game, and a rudimentary one at that. Playing as some of the movie's 10 characters, your progress is largely on-rails with the controller used to avoid hazards, jump and pull off tricks. It looks pretty good too (albeit far better on PS3 or 360) with the split-screen version particularly impressive. But merely progressing from one level to the next of the same limited gameplay soon wears thin, and movie sound samples don't make it more than a "casual" game with a big studio licence.

 

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