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"Save the earth!" is the cry from Bart and Ocean's budget label Hit Squad. You might think you've stumbled into another of those supposedly green games, but no, you've got to believe some half-baked story about space mutants and their desire for purple objects. Yes, really.

The space mutants have come to Springfield, Bart's hometown and you, as Bart, have to stop them building the ultimate weapon with which they intend to take over the world. To build this weapon the mutants need a very strange selection of objects - purple things in Level One, then hats, balloons, exit signs and power rods in the subsequent levels so you have to either change their colour or collect, destroy or hide 'em. That's the basic idea at least, although there are other activities to get involved in along the way.

You can try to enlist the help of the rest of the Simpson clan by jumping on the heads of people whose bodies have been taken over by the mutants, you can work out different methods of changing the colour of objects from the rather obvious spray-painting and you can just try to control Bart and his rather lively skateboard.

The puzzles are probably the best bit in the whole game, but don't spend too long trying to work them out because there's always a time limit ticking away - that's if you live long enough to run out of time.

Bart and his family look very much like the cartoon on which this licence was based which makes the game look attractive (except when Bart blends in with the background when things just get plain confusing) but you tend to spend so much time repeating parts of the game you've already achieved, you're going to get bored with it pretty soon.

No better or no worse than any other platform game unless you happen to be an avid Simpsons fan, in which case it could well be the answer to all your Simpson-related ambitions.

Some good puzzles and bright graphics make this instantly appealing.

Lacks long term interest. It's nothing special.