Eurogamer Rips Little Britain A New One
After seeing the initial screens for the video game adaptation of the British sketch comedy show Little Britain, I was a little skeptical about the game. At first I was excited about the inclusion of several obvious drag characters, a first in the industry. We have had characters don drag in games before, but these characters in Little Britain were solely conceived as drag characters, so it is a little different.
Unfortunately the game has been released in Europe with a great big thud. Eurogamer begins their review with two words "Absolutely appalling." Yeah, not so good. Even though the game is bad, I do love a solid scathing review. It is on par with Roger Ebert's review of North, which makes me laugh every time I read it.
James Lyon wrote the review of Little Britain and seriously gives it the treatment, not sparing the game from an endless tirade of complaints, which all sound pretty grounded. He calls the game
Irredeemably awful. It's an affront to licensed videogames. It's a title that needs to be placed in a trebuchet and slung directly into the heart of the Daily Mail in order to teach them a thing or two on what kind of vile game they should really be campaigning against.
The game as a whole is a collection of minigames. So Lyon goes through each one to describe how "irredeemably awful" the game really is. He says the only redeeming quality in the game comes when you finish each minigame to unlock scenes from the show, and that is the only reason he gave the game a singular point.
Scoring enough points in each game rewards you with clips of actual sketches. That's the reason for the one point awarded in this review. The game's badly animated, graphically poor, and should shame all who made it and all who buy it. Pray for an end to cash-in greed and weep for the death of quality. There shall now be a paragraph's silence. Score 1/10
Little Britain: The Video Game [Eurogamer]
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Video Games on 22 February 2007
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