Monsters Vs Aliens

Modern kids get bored easily. Activision clearly know this and so in Monsters vs Aliens, players take control of a different member of the monster squad for each mission and assign them their own gaming genre; Play as Susan, aka Ginormica, and you'll you duck and dodge on skates made from cars (racing), while The Missing Link is all about fighting (beat 'em up) and B.O.B the blob solves puzzles (strategy).

Give them each their own Wii motion controls and you have a kid's game with nary a dull moment. Well...except for the frequent loading screens.

Stars Reese Witherspoon, Rainn Wilson, Will Arnett and Seth Rogen have all lent their voices to the Activision video game of the Dreamworks movie, so overall this makes for an above-average movie tie-in experience. (No, sadly it's not in 3D like the film).

Skipping straight to the chase, the story here begins when all five 'monsters' have been imprisoned by General W.R Monger (noticeably not voiced by Keifer Sutherland) when Susan unwittingly starts a jail break with her spoon. Your first assignment as Ginormica ("My name is Susan!") is to roller-derby your way out of the huge underground facility whilst hopping over and ducking under lasers, rugby-charging robots and grinding on rails.

Apart from the repetitive opening of the same steel door by shaking your remote like a spaz, Ginormica's race n' dodge missions are simple but fun. Best bit? The action slips into slow-motion as she does a how-low-can-you-go under some laserbeams.

Ginormica, The Missing Link and B.O.B, despite roaming in separate parts of the facility, all need to collect DNA molecules for points that will be used in the Monster Lab. The more DNA chains you unlock in this lab, the more become available, so if you don't buy any concept art or mini-games then you can't access stuff further on in the chain.