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Agents J and K (from the animated series, not Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones) are back. As the Men In Black, they're here to clean up New York City and send all the alien slime back to where they came from. But who gives a stuff?

Not us after playing this abysmal platformer, that's for sure. The designers of this new Men In Black title seem to have looked at all the worst platform games ever and said to themselves: "Hey, we could nick these ideas - and make them worse". As you leapfrog your way mindlessly from platform to platform, it's a dizzying trip, but only because the screen doesn't stay still for a second.

The pull of eight-player action sounds great, until you realise it just means taking a turn each at meandering around the levels, effectively giving you forty lives instead of five. You will need these as well, because Men In Black 2 is a hard game. It doesn't so much offer you a great challenge as just make the entire adventure annoyingly difficult right from the start, with instant death if you so