RRP £19.99 Lowest New Price £8.52

To Be Announced Activision Release date: Friday 21st of November 2008

RRP: £19.99
May be of interest to 3 or 4 year olds.
Review date: 2008-11-25 Rating: 4 out of 10

The graphics on this game are not up to the standard of 'Shrek the Third' or 'Shrek Smash and Crash Racing' (both very good games). Actually these are the worst graphics I've seen on any PS2 game. Imagine grainy and then viewed behnd a net curtain. Quite awful really. The voices of the characters are terrible too, especially Prince Charming. No where near as authentic and funny as the other PS2 Shrek games. In the video action the characters don't look 'right' either.

The games are twists on fairground stalls but are very basic eg press X to let go of your flying frog to throw in the bucket or press L1 and R1 repeatedly for the donkey race.

Some of the stalls are fun. Mudsliding, pumpkin throwing, gingy running on a conveyor belt and childs trike racing are good ideas but poorly done. Nothing is what I would call good as it is badly let down by the graphics. Running around a windmill is horrendous as you lose sight of your runner.

I was hoping these games would be up to the standard of the excellent mini games on the end of 'Shrek The Third' but they are not half as much fun and visually dreadful to look at.

There are 5 different locations (just menu screens): Gingyland, 3 Blind Mice Midway, Fiona's Funhouse, The Poison Apple and Pinocchio Park.
You can chose to play these games as a quick game randomly or enter story mode which is just playing one game after another with some horrendous graphics in between. There is also tournament mode where 5 mini games are picked at random for you to compete in.

You can unlock more games (there are 28 in total) and bonus items like videos and concepts.

My 4 year old will play this for 5 minutes or so before getting bored. He can easily compete in the games and it does teach basic button pressing. He can win most of the games immediately which shows its very basic level (he only turned 4 this month).

Overall I am tempted to give this 1 star but for a 3/4 year old it probably scrapes a 2 star.

Buy 'Shrek the Third' as it is much superior to this if you want a good Shrek Game with Mini Games. Buy 'Smash and Crash' racing if you want a game with a great tournament 2 player option.

Not recommended at all. I wish I bought something else.