Little Britain: The Video Game Review

By James Lyon Published 16 February, 2007

A nation mourns.

Version tested: PlayStation 2

Absolutely appalling.

Oh, sorry. I went off a little too early there. That's not how it goes. I'm supposed to tease the reader with a non-sequitur paragraph or two, aren't I? Indulge in a bit of irrelevant banter, and then roll out the critical low-down. Instead I've swaggered up to the podium, brazen as you like, and blurted out that this abysmal collection of tenuous, far, far-below-average mini-games is quite frankly the worst thing to enter my PS2's drive since that raw-chicken and gin incident. Oh, well. Start as you mean to go on, as they say.

Actually, I'm a little unsure as to what side of the Little Britain - TV series that is - fence I should be flying my flag on. On the one hand, it seems to have inspired a nation, breaking into the mainstream with its larger than life anarchic tone. It's a show that succeeds in sending up the parochialism and deluded upkeep of values inherent in the UK's population via a collection of grotesquely humorous vignettes. On the other more likely hand, it's a series of tedious sketches abusing easy targets, constructed from the lowest common denominator, and endlessly repeating the same jokes ad nauseum. I can watch it. I can smile. But I feel like I'm experiencing a depressing sense of déjà vu with every episode I view. Is this really what the public like?

Yet, the very fact that it's built up such an inexplicable popularity makes it risky to criticise - mouth off that it isn't as good as people say it is and you'll be accused of being a humourless critic who'll take the first chance he gets to jump on the backlash bandwagon to satisfy their pretentious tastes.

'Little Britain: The Video Game' Screenshot 1

It's just like being there!

Well, I'm off to buy a first-class ticket. Who's with me?

But we can argue all we like about the TV show another time (in the comments, probably). What we're here for is the videogame, and by the decree of all that is just, there shall be no such fence-sitting on this particular issue. It is 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.

Arrested Development

How best to describe it, though? Clever conceptual word play fails me. I guess the only way to do it justice is to go through each mini-game in a perfunctory fashion as I can literally describe the whole brief, dire game in one go. Unnecessary reminder: each one is awful.

Here we go. First stage stars Vicky Pollard, the 'yeah but no but' teenage chav who straps her corpulent frame into a pink bikini and pair of rollerskates in order to collect CDs scattered around the park. That's actually an ill-disguised euphemism for travelling in a straight line along a narrow isometric path, struggling with awful, sluggish controls and repetitive design. All the while listening to the inane soundbites as you desperately try to score enough points to move on.

'Little Britain: The Video Game' Screenshot 2

I could spend my time thinking up a witty caption for this shot. Or I could repeat the last one. It's just like being there!

Next up are Lou and Andy, who take part in a diving game. You might recognise the sketch this mini-game is based on - it was once voted the nation's funniest of all time in a poll dreamt up by one of those vacuous, space-filling Channel 4 list shows. You might also, presumably, have also thumped your fist into a watermelon carved into the face of Jimmy Carr ever since learning that fact. Its apparently astounding brilliance has been translated into videogame form thus: while his carer Lou speaks to the pool attendant, get Andy out of his wheelchair and up to the diving board to perform as many dives as possible before time runs out. What this actually means is repetitively tapping X to run up the ladder, then mashing the buttons as you attempt to perform enough combos in the meagre amount of time available before hitting the water. Then repeat. All the while listening to the inane soundbites as you desperately try to score enough points to move on, of course.

Third, Marjorie Dawes, the leader of Fat Fighters, a woman armed with a caustic put-down for the overweight. She - tee hee! - is a hypocritical glutton herself, snaffling biscuits and cakes when others aren't around. Now imagine if she found herself in a maze of a supermarket and somebody had scattered biscuits all over the floor. Naturally she'd pick them up while avoiding other accusing slimmers. Or maybe she'd send them packing to the centre of the shop after eating a piece of cake. That's right, it's a Pac-Man clone. An awful, awful Pac-Man clone which you will play with dismay. All the while listening to... etc.

After that, kitsch frog-lover Letty Bell, an old dear with an irrational hatred for real frogs bashes their heads in via the manner of a crude Whack-A-Mole game. You know the rest.

'Little Britain: The Video Game' Screenshot 3

It's just like being there!

Then Emily and Florence, the unconvincing transvestites, play football. Aim and kick the ball past defenders and through the goal to score points. Slow, turgid, humourless.

Oh, I can't be bothered anymore. Next is some kind of dire Columns / Puyo Puyo clone with that woman who copiously vomits when somebody upsets her narrow-minded sensibilities.

Finally (finally!), Dafydd's stage. The deluded 'only gay in the village' cycles along the street, avoiding obstacles like a hellish version of Paperboy, collecting copies of the Gay Times while running over rival homosexuals. It's almost exactly the same as the first game, unremittingly bad, and the exact point where you realise you've wasted four hours of your precious life you'll never get back.

That's seven games as described in the manual. The back of the box says eight, the last of which I never even found. I have no intention of looking for it even if it does exist. Judging by the quality already on display, it most probably doesn't.

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.

1 / 10

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  • Yossarian #1 5 years ago

    amazing

  • Subquest #2 5 years ago

    That Little Britain ever became so popular is a crime. Utter rubbish!

  • Totoriko #3 5 years ago

    yeah but no but 1/10?

  • Yossarian #4 5 years ago

    is the 'Arrested Development' subheading partly a nod to the show of same title, which is approximately 7000x as good as Little Britain?

  • Yossarian #5 5 years ago

    no.

    no it really isn't.

  • linkster #6 5 years ago

    second in the UK all format charts.

    reviews, eh?

  • Kay #7 5 years ago

    Little Britain is probably the most overrated TV show... ever.

    K

  • jellyhead #8 5 years ago

    So the cash-cow, lazy dev game is as bad as the TV show then, there's a surprise!
    Oh, wait i'm lying it's no surprise at all. :)

  • alimokrane #9 5 years ago

    How about a 0/10 because i think in this case it fits!

  • richardiox #10 5 years ago

    Are you havin' a laugh? Lowest common denominator tripe. All the women I work with think Little Britain is the funniest thing ever which pretty much seals it's fate for me.

  • repairmanjack #11 5 years ago

    Shit collection of mini-games?

    Probably would have scored 7/10 as a wii release then.

  • Triggerhappytel #12 5 years ago

    A friend of mine over on the UK Playstation forums bought this and was trying to justify his purchase.

    He just couldn't understand why everyone was ribbing him for it...

  • lambtron #13 5 years ago

    Games like this make baby Jesus cry.

  • Goban #14 5 years ago

    My condolances for having to review that, you must have really drawn the short straw. Poor bastard!

  • Kiigan #15 5 years ago

    Why not give it zero?

  • PlugMonkey #16 5 years ago

    "Little Britain the TV show is good. "

    I thought the first season was excellent. The punch lines were nowhere near as repetitive as people like to make out now.

    The third season was pretty tired. It ended up as a sort of gross-out parody of itself.

    I think it's more a case of no comedy being able to live up to the level of hype the media heaps upon anything remotely successful these days. The Office went the same way. I thought it was hilarious the first time I saw it, but by the time I'd been forced to sit through the sketch where he does the bad dance about 900 times, it got a bit stale.

  • PlugMonkey #17 5 years ago

    "My condolances for having to review that, you must have really drawn the short straw. Poor bastard!"

    Never mind that, won't somebody think of the testers! Somewhere, some poor bastard has been playing this non-stop for 3 months!

  • Rusta #18 5 years ago

    1/10! wow

    sad fact is non review reading lemmings will buy it, suckers

  • morriss #19 5 years ago

    Hope it gets ported to the 360.

  • HiddenAway #20 5 years ago

    Sooooo...

    Should we:

    a) Get every single copy of the game then burn them?

    b) Get every single copy of the game and throw them at the people who actually bought it?

  • Artemis_Matsas #21 5 years ago

    Well, no matter how bad this game is, it is currently selling well. It will probably sell far better than Ico or Shadow of the Collosus.

  • The_Inquisitor #22 5 years ago

    Little Britain is a gay comedy made for gay people. I doubt the game is any different.

  • Steroyd #23 5 years ago

    I'm sorry this made it number 2 in the UK charts?

    Above Okami?

    /weeps

  • lambtron #24 5 years ago

    "I think it's more a case of no comedy being able to live up to the level of hype the media heaps upon anything remotely successful these days. The Office went the same way. I thought it was hilarious the first time I saw it, but by the time I'd been forced to sit through the sketch where he does the bad dance about 900 times, it got a bit stale."

    Yeah but the bit where he tells whathisface to fook off is still class :).

  • korky #25 5 years ago

    What are the odds on it selling 3 or 4 times as many copies as Okami ? :(

    "'ere corw'ney kum an' look at this - it's ****in' brillyan' - vickey ***ing pol'ard ska'in inna pink burkini - thas ***in' class that is"

  • Artemis_Matsas #26 5 years ago

    Hey, can somebody change the picture for the review link? I'm going to punch the monitor, i swear it!!!

  • SBfistfun #27 5 years ago

    Somewhere, some poor bastard has been playing this non-stop for 3 months!

    And the rest...

  • Dirtbox #28 5 years ago

    A review by Dirtbox:

    Dogshit.

  • in5ane #29 5 years ago

    "I'm supposed to tease the reader with a non-sequitur paragraph or two, aren't I?"

    Nope, with a game this bad, the first two words were good enough for me :)

    As for the show, it was pretty good to begin with, but now its a terrible mess of in-jokes and gross-outs for people with an IQ lower than their house number.

  • f00b_inc #30 5 years ago

    @korky - I was in GAME the other day and did, in fact, overhear a conversation similar to your dramatisation :(

  • d0bbo #31 5 years ago

    Reviews of dire games are always the most interesting to read.

    Should of actually left a paragraph of space for the silence at the end though :)

  • Agent_Llama #32 5 years ago

    The radio show (which the first tv series was based on, and repeated many of the sketches) was amusing. But it all soon went downhill. If I ever (sadly) happen to catch Little Britain on tv it doesn't even raise a flicker of a smile.

    A tired, over-used brand - they no doubt realised they could milk a bit more out of it by releasing an utterly dismal game before the 'phenomenon' is over.

    And the most criminal thing? This game was released the same day as Okami. And which sold more?

    Fucking MORONS.

  • andromeda #33 5 years ago

    woohoo knock em dead!

  • Carpathian #34 5 years ago

    PlugMonkey = PlugMonkey + 1

    LEVEL UP !

  • Carlo #35 5 years ago

    Saw two girls in a shop toying with the idea of buying this. They were VERY excited at taking it home and playing it.

    Doesn't matter how shit 'gamers' think it is, it's going to sell shit-loads.

  • trevd72 #36 5 years ago

    the reason for pirate games!!!! rip stupid people off and they will rip you off in return.

    the developers should be named and shamed.

  • asphaltcowboy #37 5 years ago

    Season 1 was great, season 2 was still good - I HATED season 3.
    That this game exists... well, it's a travesty... :/

  • James_Lyon #38 5 years ago

    "Should of actually left a paragraph of space for the silence at the end though :) "

    That's how I originally put it! Tell you what, I'll insert it back in here for your satisfaction. Damn those sub-editors!






    There. I actually asked to review this. I'd had enough of games that were just alright. I wanted to give something a right kicking. I had no delusions that this would be the game to do so yet it exceeded all expectations. The fact, though, that it's actually selling - and selling well - that's what sickens me.

  • X201 #39 5 years ago

    Same as Ali G, the people who loved Viki Pollard were too thick to realise they were the subject of the joke.

  • President_Weasel #40 5 years ago

    Saddening but unsurprising that this cash-in dross should figure so high in the charts.

  • RE*AC*TOR #41 5 years ago

    How far British comedy has fallen in recent times. This hardly merits a review.

  • Tiny_Tim #42 5 years ago

    I know, has anyone else noticed that since all the TV channels decided they wanted to commission lots of "pedigree" comedy to shout about, they actually commissioned any old bollocks that came through their front door.

  • BradlayLaw #43 5 years ago

    "Okay, Lindsay, are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over — an analyst and a therapist. The world’s first analrapist."

  • yupyup #44 5 years ago

    "Okay, Lindsay, are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over — an analyst and a therapist. The world’s first analrapist."

    So many, many poorly chosen words :)

  • Killerbee #45 5 years ago

    I still can't quite come to terms with how well this is selling...

    Personally I'm not a fan of the TV show, but at least it's not Catherine Tate.

  • jglover4 #46 5 years ago

    "I'm sorry this made it number 2 in the UK charts?

    Above Okami?"

    Don't panic, it probably won't sell as many as the genius gaming fun that is Happy Feet...

    The general public scare me.

  • Killerbee #47 5 years ago

    Actually, the more important question for people who might actually enjoy crap mini-games is should one get Little Britain or Mario Party Advance?

  • Subquest #48 5 years ago

    The sad assed truth of all this is that the majority of our country is rather dimwitted and, when in groups, very fond of abysmal catchphrases. And when garbage sells better than gold, guess what - we get fed more and more garbage.

  • Skeletor #49 5 years ago

    Wow! This sounds so bad that it caught my attention...and I'm from Germany, never heard of the TV Series:-)

  • Laserbream #50 5 years ago

    I'm almost ashamed to own series 1 and 2. Luckily series 2 was a dead giveaway to where the show was heading so I've avoided the whole circus like a plague since then.

  • disussedgenius #51 5 years ago

    Personally I'm not a fan of the TV show, but at least it's not Catherine Tate.

    So so true.

    /waits for CT game

    /cries
    Edited by 2 at 16/02/07 @ 13:28

  • peterfll #52 5 years ago

    "Little Britain is a gay comedy made for gay people. I doubt the game is any different."

    You're so right, I used to sit on a butt plug when watching the show; tonight I'll be playing the game whilst painting my nails.
    Edited by 1 at 16/02/07 @ 13:32

  • JackyB #53 5 years ago

    dont worry bout it... Let the genaral public carry on buying shit games.

  • DaisyD #54 5 years ago

    I cannot think of anything worse quite frankly!

  • Dark_Stranger #55 5 years ago

    @ HiddenAway - "b) Get every single copy of the game and throw them at the people who actually bought it?"

    Paradox me thinks, how can you throw a copy of the game at each person that brought the game if you buy every single copy? :oD

  • aine #56 5 years ago

    Little Britain is a gay comedy made for gay people. I doubt the game is any different.

    ...wait, what? i can't tell if you're being sarcastic, or if you're just an arsehole.

  • MoGamer2006 #57 5 years ago

    Throw them at yourself?

  • aine #58 5 years ago

    dont worry bout it... Let the genaral public carry on buying shit games.

    the problem here is, video games cost quite a bit to make, and most publishers are notoriously risk-averse. if they can spend about a tenner getting some shithouse developer to knock this up in an afternoon, and it can get to no.2 in the charts, why bother funding and publishing actual decent games? it's most definitely something to worry about.

  • DaM #59 5 years ago

    I heard the ex-Clover guys are actually working on the Catherine Tate game.

  • peterfll #60 5 years ago

    @aine

    Perhaps The_Inquisitor is obssessed with the arse himself? Now wouldn't that be ironic?

  • muters #61 5 years ago

    Once upon a time, I read a review of the SNES's Last Action Hero in my freshly bought edition of Total! magazine. It made me want to pick it up 'for a laugh' to see if it really was the Worst. Game. Ever.

    Little Britain just makes me want to burn things.

  • Tomo #62 5 years ago

    Well, I like the show.

    Altho series 3 managed to bore me a fair bit.

  • Rambaldi #63 5 years ago

    Fact: over 90% of the population have an IQ below 100
    Evidence: shit like this reaching No.2

    P.S. Little Britain is the serialised equivalent of getting all the decent jokes from a film in it's trailer. Being forced to watch more than one episode is torture.
    Edited by 1 at 16/02/07 @ 14:28

  • Kami #64 5 years ago

    I have never been a fan of Little Britain, I really hated it from the beginning. Half an episode was enough to convince me to turn over to UKTV Gold and watch repeats of The Vicar of Dibley, which is a comedy in a completely different class to the gross and rather disturbing humour of Little Britain.

    It is a sad day to see this game selling more than the frankly genius goodness of Okami. Unfortunately, I suppose we should have seen that one coming but there is still no justice in the world when tripe like this sells even one copy...

  • Ares #65 5 years ago

    "Shit collection of mini-games?

    Probably would have scored 7/10 as a wii release then." - repairmanjack

    LOL...

    ...I hate you.

    Contemplating the fact that this has reached #2 in the UK charts (if that's even true) is prompting some fairly Hitleresque thoughts in me. But I suppose actually playing the game is punishment enough for those who bought it.

    Go on... say it out loud: "Hitleresque!"

  • Cyberblade #66 5 years ago

    You lot really have missed the point...

    For a start the Little Britain fan base is a lot younger than you probably think... it's the number 2 brand behind the Simpsons amoungst 6-10 year olds... how many of those do you think are actually hardcore gamers??????? how many of them do you think play Gears of War, or Supreme Commander?????

    The game is what it is... it's about £15 quid at retail, not £49.99. It's a bit of light hearted fun... not a $10million dollar all singing all dancing next gen title... the fact that it is selling very well only reinforces the general publics interest in the show!!

    I bought it and my kids love it... like I said it's a bit of fun! Don't let your dislike for the show cloud your judgement about what is popular amougnst the British public.

    Better let you guys get back to your World of Warcraft lives and spend your weekend couped up in your bedroom talking to eachother online about how many points your golden axe is worth whilst picking your nose and eating it!

    Peace out... Cyberblade!!

  • Weezer #67 5 years ago

    Yeah, but what does he REALLY think...?

  • deepspacefox #68 5 years ago

    As everyone who's ever worked in retail will know, a large majority of the general public are thick as pigshit.
    So faced with the choice between a truly original game starring 'some sort of cartoon dog' which they would probably describe as 'gay' or a game based on a TV show which they believe, for some unknown reason, is the best thing to happen to comedy since Tommy Cooper died on stage, which will they go for?
    The games industry is truly headed for chav-ville if travesties like this continue to be developed.
    Thank god we have people like Rockstar, Hideo Kojima, David Jaffe and Miyomoto to desperately try and steer us in the right direction.

    And regarding the Little Britain TV show itself, I'm going to take the Bill Hicks approach: SHIT

    /walks away

  • Lionheart #69 5 years ago

    Wait wait wait!!? Better than Gears?

  • groovychainsaw #70 5 years ago

    Ach! But...Okami...Okami...Won't someone think of the Wolf-Gods?!....
    /Gets out AK-47
    /Considers stalking people who buy Little Britain
    /Realises being a gamer and killing people would get too much interest from the daily mail
    /Puts gun away
    /Makes cup of tea
    /Plays okami
    ahhhh.... flowers.... feeding rabbits....

  • jglover4 #71 5 years ago

    "I bought it and my kids love it... "

    I can't help but feel that by reporting this to the NSPCC I'd be doing them a favour...

    (just kidding, etc, etc).

  • Load_2.0 #72 5 years ago

    Cyberblade wrote:
    For a start the Little Britain fan base is a lot younger than you probably think... it's the number 2 brand behind the Simpsons amoungst 6-10 year olds... how many of those do you think are actually hardcore gamers??????? how many of them do you think play Gears of War, or Supreme Commander?????


    Sorry mate, I can't say that the target audience for Little Britain is 6-10 year olds given the content of the show. The DVD's carry a 15+ rating for a reason. The fact it's a shit game does'nt make it automatically suitable for kids. there are a plethora of quality titles for that age group rather than the shit that gets plastered over the TV.

    Maybe you should think about the content of what your kids are absorbing.

  • peterfll #73 5 years ago

    Yes, the fact that Little Britain is so popular with anyone under the age of 13 it makes you wonder why the BBC insist on showing it after the watershed. If it was on CBBeebies it's audience would clearly explode.

    Anyway, nice game to gets kids hooked on, start 'em on this, move 'em on to GTA next....

    \is joking!

  • kangarootoo #74 5 years ago

    The TV show used to be, but after the first series it really lost momentum.

    As for the game, its was never going to be good really was it.

  • PlugMonkey #75 5 years ago

    "Fact: over 90% of the population have an IQ below 100"

    Erm, no. No they don't. The average IQ of the population is, by definition, 100.

  • thegouldfish #76 5 years ago

    Just that picture on the box cover is enough to make me want to burn it, God it's revolting.

  • Tereeblay #77 5 years ago

    @ Lionheart

    The review said 1/10, gears was 8

    What review was you reading? -.o

  • guerillabob #78 5 years ago

    Some bitter comments here on the Little Britain game and show. If you don't like the show, why play the game? Fools!

    But I would like to ask James Lyon a question.
    Have you ever heard of humor? Go on give yourself a tickle. This is light hearted fun.
    If you are a fan of the show, and still draining the remaining fun you can from a PS2, then I am sure this game would amuse you. But you aren’t, are you James. No!
    You also mentioned "unconvincing transvestites"? Well, it is meant to be amusing and not give you a 'Pan Handle.'

    I bet you drink in the pubs alone.

  • Cyberblade #79 5 years ago

    No one ever said that Little Britain the TV show was aimed at a younger audience... it's just the way things have worked out. The fact that DVD's are a 15+ and the game is a BBFC 12 doesn't mean that no-one below that age has access to it.

    Do you think that no-one under the age of 18 has ever played GTA or Manhunt or GOW???? exactly... My kids are aged 10 & 13 and as such I feel they are old enough to be exposed to this game and the show.

    Anyway I'm already bored of debating this... I mearely wanted to make the point that this game is not aimed at hardcoe gamers like most of the people on this forum... there are others who just enjoy video games as a quick laugh and a bit of fun and don't have to be immersed in a world of hi res graphics and surround sound to do so.

    p.s. Never said it was better than Gears... Gears ROCKS!! :)

  • Artemis_Matsas #80 5 years ago

    "Better let you guys get back to your World of Warcraft lives and spend your weekend couped up in your bedroom talking to eachother online about how many points your golden axe is worth whilst picking your nose and eating it! "

    First of all you bought your kids a game that is rated 15+, so you're wrong from the get go.
    Everybody is entitled to their opinion, but your last remark about all of us that replied to this thread is insulting at the least.
    The game you bought to your kids is a big pile of smelly shit. Defending it makes you look stupid.
    That's all.

  • peterfll #81 5 years ago

    @guerillabob

    Humour is totally subjective. It's not an objective science. Clearly it's not James' cup of tea or many others. Clearly it's yours - like many others.

    C'est La Vie.

  • nickthegun #82 5 years ago

    Its no Viz - The game, thats for certain.

  • Cyberblade #83 5 years ago

    "First of all you bought your kids a game that is rated 15+, so you're wrong from the get go.
    Everybody is entitled to their opinion, but your last remark about all of us that replied to this thread is insulting at the least.
    The game you bought to your kids is a big pile of smelly shit. Defending it makes you look stupid."

    1.) The game is rated a BBFC 12 - get your facts straight.
    2.) Looks like I hit a nerve eh? - Chill winston...
    3.) It smells alright to me - I hardly think I look stupid on here compared to most.

    Goodbye.

  • Rambaldi #84 5 years ago

    @Cyberblade

    "I bought it"

    /Prints, frames, hangs on wall of shame

  • floppylobster #85 5 years ago

    I guess Cyberblade was the one who was testing it. Like one of those Hollywood execs who jump on IMdb and try to talk up their shit movies.

  • JackyB #86 5 years ago

    aine........... but there are still more than enough great games out there to enjoy. I for one dont have the time or money to enjoy all the games i'd like. Besides, if people dont buy great games... it just means i can get them cheaper. yay!

  • floppylobster #87 5 years ago

    Any other contenders for Worst. Game. Ever?

    I never got to play ET on Atari but I did get to play 'Dragonheart' on PlayStation.

  • floppylobster #88 5 years ago

    Oh, and War Gods on N64, wasn't the worst I've ever played. But it's right up there.

  • deepspacefox #89 5 years ago

    "I guess Cyberblade was the one who was testing it. Like one of those Hollywood execs who jump on IMdb and try to talk up their shit movies."

    Does that mean Cyberblade IS Uwe Boll?

  • peanuthead #90 5 years ago

    Little Britain the video game clearly wasn't meant for the likes of readers of this site and most people who have commented in this forum, it's plainly targeted at a completely different audience and a much younger demographic.

    What I don't understand is why bother reviewing games on a site that so obviously won’t be interested in a game like this…they might as well review a nice game of Hop Scotch out in the car park as it has about as much relevance to the style of hardcore gaming that members of this forum would prefer to read about.

    Don't despair, the UK's general public aren't all morons they just want different things to what you think is the dog's dangly's. Little Britain is cheap harmless fun and as it's been pointed out before, it was never going to be an all encompassing deeply invovled masterpiece of gameplay...lighten up, it's a laugh and try not to get in a flap about what people spend their money on. The chart position suggests lots of people enjoy it, it was never meant for you, go back to your big boys toys and let people enjoy a bit of harmless fun.

  • Psi #91 5 years ago

    yup saw this and thought ' viz the game '

    can anyone name a tv cashin worse than this? 'monty pythons flying circus the game' ?

  • Cyberblade #92 5 years ago

    "I guess Cyberblade was the one who was testing it. Like one of those Hollywood execs who jump on IMdb and try to talk up their shit movies."

    I'm not trying to big it up, just making a point that it has it's place in the market...

    If you will compare it to S Club 7 vs U2 or Oasis... you could argue that S Club 7 is a load of crap compared, but try telling that to their loyal fan base at the time... and the ones who nought their records in the millions!

    Horses for courses people...


    Edited by 1 at 16/02/07 @ 15:57

  • krudster #93 5 years ago

    As the commissioning editor, the basic reason it got reviewed here was in response to its unprecedented popularity. The fact that it's No.2 in the charts in the UK means that we have to warn anyone else from buying what is clearly an absolute abomination of a game. As much as anything else, Eurogamer is a buying guide for anyone that wants access to it - and certainly doesn't have an exclusive membership club of hardcore gamers.

  • floppylobster #94 5 years ago

    Yeah it's nice to teach your kids to 'settle' in life. They should learn all about not demanding better and be taught to just be satisfied with 'average'. That way we can all be lazy and make no effort in everything we do and nobody will give us shit about it. Just sit back and relax. Chill. It's just a game. A harmless, half-arsed, game. Stop demanding more out of life and start demanding less. This game is a beacon of shining light showing us the way.

  • peanuthead #95 5 years ago

    Krudster, I don't think any of your Eurogamer readers were ever in any danger of accidentally getting 'fooled' into buying Little Britain...do you?

    But thanks for the public service announcement ;o)

  • krudster #96 5 years ago

    None of the regulars, no, but with over a million people dipping into EG every month there are plenty of casual readers out there....

  • AcidSnake #97 5 years ago

    @plugmonkey:

    About the IQ thingy...
    I know that by definition it's 100...But that doesn't mean that 90% of the population can't have an IQ lower than 100...

    example:
    Take 9 people with an IQ of 95 and 1 with an IQ of 145...
    The avarage is 100....but 90% has an IQ lower than 100...

    Which in itself is kind of creepy, considering the amount of people getting this game...Which judging by reactions in this thread are 'not intelligent' people...
    That means that there are somewhere among us 'Extremely Mega Intelligent' people...

    Could they have special superpowers is my question?
    And if so, will they use it to combat evil?

    Ah yes the astounding philosofical aspects of Little Brittain are only now emerging...

  • Lukus #98 5 years ago

    The opening line and subsequent paragraph of this review provided greater wit and more laughs than Little Britain has displayed in its six thousand episodes.

    I don't think I'm overstating anything here.

  • nickthegun #99 5 years ago

    2 things are clear from this review and its comments:

    1) People will always buy well marketed shit rather than poorly marketed greatness.

    2) People take this 'hardcore gamer' stuff too seriously.

    Yes, its a crap game, we got that from the review. The people who bought it arent mentally retarded. They just saw an advert on telly saying 'Your favourite show + PS2 =Greatness!'.

    Beleive it or not, of the people who own the 100 million PS2s, not everyone knows 'OMG OKAMI IS TEH SHIT!!!'.
    Edited by 1 at 16/02/07 @ 16:33

  • bumgut #100 5 years ago

    "example:
    Take 9 people with an IQ of 95 and 1 with an IQ of 145...
    The avarage is 100....but 90% has an IQ lower than 100... "

    Yes but remember the 9 others with an IQ of 105 and the 1 other with an IQ of 55..."
    Still works out to just under 50% >100 and just under 50%
    Edited by 2 at 16/02/07 @ 16:41

  • AcidSnake #101 5 years ago

    @bumgut:
    Well, obviously...
    But I just wanted to prove that 90% is possible...not probable...
    Which was the original posters point I believe...

  • jglover4 #102 5 years ago

    "aine........... but there are still more than enough great games out there to enjoy. I for one dont have the time or money to enjoy all the games i'd like. Besides, if people dont buy great games... it just means i can get them cheaper. yay!"

    Which is exactly why in a few years time publishers may well end up refusing to release anything but easy-selling, cheap-to-make dross. And, to be fair, their reasoning will be sound, why bother spending big money on something that receives plaudits but gives them very little profit?

    'Besides, if people dont buy great games... they will no longer get made' would be more accurate.

  • PlugMonkey #103 5 years ago

    ;D@acidsnake

    WRT the IQ thingy...

    That it is mathematically possible for 90% of a population to have an IQ below 100 does not add any truth to the statement that 90% of the population does, as Rambaldi audaciously claims to be "Fact".

    50% of the population (of Britain, as with anywhere) has an IQ of below 100, 50% has an IQ of above 100. That's just the way it works.

    Your mathematical model - while theoretically sound - is incredibly improbable even for a sample size of 10 people. As the sample size increase towards the 50 million strong population of Britain, that improbablility increases by many orders of magnitude.

    What Rambaldi should have said is "Fact: 50% of the population have an IQ of below 100, which is actually pretty stupid owing to IQ being a relative measure of intelligence across a population", but a suppose that isn't as catchy. "Fact: over 90% of the population are stupid" would have sufficed.

  • JSD124 #104 5 years ago

    Yes, the hidden message in the review is right.



    Arrested Development is better than Little Britain.

  • t8yman #105 5 years ago

    and it will sell by the shedload for a long time to come.

    just like 50 squillion people watch big brother, and 40 squillion people buy coldplay albums. we get the media we deserve.

    meanwhile, the discerning gamer already knew this would be dogshit, and wouldnt touch it before the review. series 1 was good, 2 slightly less good, and then 3....... its already been said.

  • MarkGLocoRoco #106 5 years ago

    I was in GAME yesterday buying Okami (10/10) and it was 5th in the charts and I noticed this (previously unheard of development) was 6th!

    Quote "and should shame all who made it and all who buy it."

    I concur.

    To rub salt into the wound, my daughter picked up a preowned copy of 'Family Guy' and waved it approvingly in my direction AND I saw the manager buy a copy of Fifa 2005 off a parent for 50p! You rip off B*****D!

    Grrrrrrrrr!
    Edited by 1 at 16/02/07 @ 17:18

  • NthSimulachum #107 5 years ago

    Not only does 90% of the British population have an IQ below 100, but my Mazda gives me 200% fuel efficiency.

    I liked the first series, especially the Perthshire hotelier. After that it was shite.

  • DrunKao #108 5 years ago

    Isn't this game on the charts? HAHAHAHAHA
    I'm not sure which chart is the lamest. The UK's or Australia's. Has anyone ever seen an Australia video games chart before? It's one of the most depressing list ever compiled. Well maybe not now...
    Edited by 2 at 17/02/07 @ 01:01

  • Agent_Llama #109 5 years ago

    Asda.com's chavtastic current top ten PS2 games:

    1 Little Britain - The Video Game
    2 Singstar 80's
    3 Need For Speed: Carbon
    4 WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2007
    5 Avatar: The Legend Of Aang
    6 Pro Evolution Soccer 6
    7 Seaworld Adventure Park: Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures
    8 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire: Buzz!
    9 Okami *sob*
    10 Sega Mega Drive Collection *sob*

    Still, no sign of FIFA so that's somehting I suppose.
    Edited by 1 at 16/02/07 @ 18:27

  • smelly #110 5 years ago

    "example:
    Take 9 people with an IQ of 95 and 1 with an IQ of 145...
    The avarage is 100....but 90% has an IQ lower than 100... "


    Thats why Std Dev was invented.

  • smelly #111 5 years ago

    *Asda.com's chavtastic current top ten PS2 games:


    Thats understandable .. Little johnny's mom is doing the shopping.. sees this and thinks "hmm, he likes little britain, the humour is aimed at his age range"... So buys it thinking that'll be the type of game little johnny likes.

    Little johnny gets it, and (wihtout wanting to upset his mom) says "gee thanks mom, thats really thoughtful".. Mom never learns better.. and gets the next tv tie in pile of crap which comes out.

  • GitSomE_UK #112 5 years ago

    No way would I buy my kids this pile of toss, there's so much other good stuff out there to give to kids.

    Whilst I admit it was amusing at first on Radio, the way Little Britain has been hyped up as *the* comedy of the times and described as "An amusing, wry look at the lighter side of British life" makes my eyes bleed from the fury I feel welling up inside.

    Little Britain is cock, those who buy the game are cocks the developers should be named and shamed for the filth they peddle and banned from using computers ever again.

    Little Britain and the following it has makes me ashamed to be British.

    Don't get me started on that bint Tate!

    /Sound of eyeballs popping with rage

  • BremXJones #113 5 years ago

    Some people here really need to learn about statistical bell curves.

    KG

  • major_tom #114 5 years ago

    5 Avatar: The Legend Of Aang

    What the christ is that?!
    Edited by 2 at 16/02/07 @ 20:30

  • Metalfish #115 5 years ago

    @BremX

    Is todays lecture on gauzian or Boltzman distributions?

  • Razz #116 5 years ago

    I learned about 6 new words! Cheers! :)

  • kentmonkey #117 5 years ago

    I can just imagine the scenes in GAME stores all across the country.

    Just imagine it, two young lads standing their in their hoodies. One turns to the other and whilst pointing at the game says, in a very deep tone..."I want that one"...whilst the other lad stands their guffawing and wetting himself and all their mates standing behind them shouting "I'm a Laaaaaaaady".

    Ha ha, ha ha, ha ha haaaaaaaa! :o(

    /waves at Cyberclaws kids

  • Stickman #118 5 years ago

    /watches Cyberclaw's kids stab kentmonkey in the kidneys like the great big pikeys they undoubtebly are.

  • HiddenAway #119 5 years ago

    @ Major

    5 Avatar: The Legend Of Aang

    What the christ is that?!

    If I'm not mistaken, it's a cartoon (anime style) tie-in.

    @ whoever spotted the paradox

    10 points to you!

    @ Sales

    Thankfully, play.com's PS2 charts are much better for the hardcore gamers:

    1. Okami
    2. Canis Canem Edit (Bully)
    3. Need For Speed: Carbon
    4. Eye Toy Play 3 + Camera
    5. Official Sony PS2 Dualshock 2 Controller (Black)
    6. Little Britain: The Video Game
    7. Max 16MB PS2 Memory Card
    8. Sega Mega Drive Collection
    9. Prince of Persia Trilogy (Triple pack)
    10. Buzz Junior: Jungle Party (With Buzzers)
    Edited by 1 at 17/02/07 @ 00:48

  • smelly #120 5 years ago

    Well at least the top 2 are good games.

    But Ive said it once, i'll say it again.. Uk gamers are stupid.

    And for that reason.. The ps3 will prolly fly off the shelves :-)

  • Daymare #121 5 years ago

    "I mearely wanted to make the point that this game is not aimed at hardcoe gamers like most of the people on this forum... there are others who just enjoy video games as a quick laugh and a bit of fun and don't have to be immersed in a world of hi res graphics and surround sound to do so."

    Please, let us not forget, that this Could be a good game if the one's involved would want it to be. I think that is the "hidden message" in Eurogamer's choice of reviewing it. Games for "general public" don't need to be shit and easy money, 'cause it makes other developers go "hm, let us do something like that too." And we, so-called "hardcore gamers" sure as hell don't want that.
    Reviewing bad games is just as important as reviewing good games. The only problem is, it's "pissing in the wind" or "talking to the walls", considering the sales charts and the fact that "general public" doesn't read Eurogamer. Excluding Cyberblade who goes and acctualy defends the game and his choice of buying it for his kids. To each his own, I guess. I, for instance, would buy my kids Psychonauts or a Wii..

    There's much to be said about this subject, but I'm too lazy to go on. Cheers ;)

  • floppylobster #122 5 years ago

    F*ck the charts. When I used to work for a games distributor we used to send the 'chart' to the newspapers. And it always included some piece-of-shit game we were having trouble unloading. I doubt things have changed much. In fact I'm now running a video store where we put up the 'Top Ten' - which includes several dogs which aren't renting.

    @ bumgut
    I think the name bumgut is the funniest thing here.
    Edited by 1 at 17/02/07 @ 11:27

  • frag.uk #123 5 years ago

    Still, At the end of the day, it's only going to be da chavvy kidz who touch this with an extended barge pole, but they can't read to see what Eurogamer gave it so more fool them.

  • Sutekh #124 5 years ago

    But I still
    and always will
    love Tom Baker

  • OfficialBlue #125 5 years ago

    Who has brought this pice of SHIT because it's like in the top 10 game charts i mean F***k sake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • captainrentboy #126 5 years ago

    Okami sales are actually picking up in my store now, whereas this shite being bought has pretty much come to a standstill,and we've already had 20 of the fooking things traded back in.
    As I'm a decent guy and try to put people off buying things like Crazy Frog Racer or 360 intercoolers ''Oiii butt will this make my 360's graffix better lioke?'' ''Errm no'', I've warned quite a lot of customers what to expect with this game, but still they choose to ignore, and still they get furiously upset when they can't get a refund on it two days later. Wankers the lot of 'em.
    (By 'em I mean the vast majority of casual gamers out there)

  • Donny #127 5 years ago

    Can this review be moved of the front page. I hate seeing 'Vicky Pollards' face every time I come to my favorite website.
    Edited by 1 at 17/02/07 @ 14:25

  • James_Lyon #128 5 years ago

    "But I would like to ask James Lyon a question.
    Have you ever heard of humor?"

    In response to your question: by my own admittance I have a broad sense of humour. From scathing Private Eye-style satire and the likes of Frasier's whimsical bedroom farce to the time someone drew a comedy willy on the window of the bus. I'm not saying I haven't, in my life, laughed at Little Britain, I'm saying that in it's later days it's become more like a comfort food to its audience than it is trying hard to please them.

    Sense of humour has no relation to the quality of the game, however. Didn't you hear? They're selling you a flipping Pac-Man clone. They could put classic Bill Hicks quotes over the top of it and it still won't make it any better.

    And I mentioned 'unconvincing transvetites' because that's what the show calls them, don't you know.

    "I bet you drink in the pubs alone."

    Yes. Yes I do. *Sob!*

  • oishiiniku #129 5 years ago

    A couple of the guys in this thread BLATANTLY either worked on this game or for its publisher. Shame shame shame...

  • deepspacefox #130 5 years ago

    "If you see a 'Piece of shit', SAY IT and walk away. YOU'RE RIGHT! YOU'RE RIGHT, not those other assholes. You're right"

    Insightful and funny. Now THAT'S comedy.

    Bill Hicks R.I.P.

  • Keyz #131 5 years ago

    Who's idea was it to make this?

  • Ganon_wants_a_360 #132 5 years ago

    I work at a national video games retailer, and I just want to reassure everyone that companies pay to have good places in the chart. Gears of Wars may be an excellent game, but it was not number one in the 360 charts for two weeks before it came out.

    So don't be fooled too much by little britain's placement in the charts.

    Having said that, I've sold quite a few copies of Little Britain, and don't think I've sold one copy of Okami. My store is scum central though.

  • Azazel #133 5 years ago

    "If anyone in here is in marketing or advertising: kill yourself. Ok, back to the show."

  • Timblez #134 5 years ago

    David Walliams and Matt Lucas are trying to kill their careers.

  • smelly #135 5 years ago

    Who has brought this pice of SHIT because it's like in the top 10 game charts i mean F***k sake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    A parent maybe? "oh it must be good, it's popular"

    Or maybe the same kids who buy music because its in the top ten? Or indeed how many shit movies have you gone to see (just because they were popular and you wanted to see what the fus was about).. I know i've seen lots.

  • deepspacefox #136 5 years ago

    "If anyone in here is in marketing or advertising: kill yourself. Ok, back to the show."

    "People are sitting here thinking 'There's gonna be a joke coming', there's no f***ing joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with your evil seed. You are f***ed and you are f***ing us. Kill yourselves"

  • jonsaan #137 5 years ago

    "Any other contenders for Worst. Game. Ever?"

    Basic Math on the Atari VCS was pretty shit let me tell you. I pursuaded my Dad to get it for it's educational merits. Unbelievably it was just that, no game at all. Gutted.

  • floppylobster #138 5 years ago

    "Any other contenders for Worst. Game. Ever?"

    In Dragonheart (PS) I think the cover blurb read something like "This game contains 7 dragons too fearsome to be in the movie". I knew it was trouble right then.

    Your character got tired if they swung their sword too much and just took a forced rest. The jump animation still makes me laugh today. I forced myself to finish it in case anything bad happened to me then I could always look back and say "at least it's not as bad as that time I played through Dragonheart".
    Edited by 1 at 19/02/07 @ 09:18

  • jglover4 #139 5 years ago

    "Any other contenders for Worst. Game. Ever?"

    I thought Shaq-Fu still held that title?

  • choobs #140 5 years ago

    And still it gets to number three in the UK videogame charts. Where is the justice?

  • iggypopbarker #141 5 years ago

    series one was alright. better than alright if you didn't watch it all in a short space of time.

    two was much, much worse though, and everything since is only worth the same amount of discussion as they put into writing it

  • MarkGLocoRoco #142 5 years ago

    "Any other contenders for Worst. Game. Ever?"

    D on the Saturn; A poorly realised linear point and click 'adventure'.

    Or

    "Deal or No Deal" interactive DVD; 5 minutes to open ONE box!
    Edited by 3 at 22/02/07 @ 10:49

  • theking316uk #143 5 years ago

    i hate the whole if you a kid you will like it. Im 23 and grew up with NES Super Mario Bros, Sonic 1,2 and 3 Super Mario World, Flashback and into my teens titles like Metal Gear Solid, Virtua Fighter 2, Tekken 2 etc.

    As a kid and teen i would not accept shit games , Rise of the robots went back to the rental shop a day early it was awful, home alone snes dire, Death Crimeson saturn import awful, battle arena toshinden psone shit

    Sadly as the gaming demograph has gone older companies have started creating the so called kids game which is usally some licence crap. I miss when there was no kids games it was just games.

    on subject of Need for Speed i think they get attacked for the language used in the last game it was all slang and stuff so ive been told. Never played them so cant comment on the games proper my fave racers are the likes of outrun 1 and 2, sega rally, ridge racer, daytona that type of stuff. WWE games are not shit though(some where in the past)smackdown vs raw 2007 is quite good bit dated roster though. The best wrestling game is either wrestlefest 91 in the arcade or N64 classic WCW/nWo revenge. I liked wrestling from the time it took off in 90 to present day so ive seen it nosedive in popualtry and go up again i perfer it when no bugger likes it to be honest as the content is normally the best then(well apart from 98 best year ever)

    I played the Little Britain game in gamestation yesterday and its just a bunch of soundbites over and over its awful.

    Little Britain as a tv show i dont really get it it seems to be the same thing again and again, perfer faulty towers, only fools and horses, likey lads, only when i laugh, open all hours, poridge, some mothers do have em things like that to be honest
    Edited by 2 at 02/03/07 @ 02:36