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On the surface, nice fluffy bunnie-wunnies and the business end of baseball bats don't quite mix, but in the topsy-turvy world of Bunny Bricks, anything is possible.

Bunny's girlfriend Boubou has been kidnapped by the Bongo tribe and they plan to sacrifice her to the evil god Bong - it's your job to rescue Boubou and battle through the obstacles the Bongos place in your way. Exciting stuff.

Basically, this game is Breakout with some cutesy animation and colourful graphics thrown in. You have to rid each of thirty different screens of all their bricks and pick up the bonuses and sort out various puzzles on the way. However, this isn't as easy as it sounds because there are various baddies, such as Sharky, Naf Naf and even Stan and Ollie, who try a variety of tricks to stop you whacking the ball into the bricks. For example, at one point Napoleon steals the ball and elsewhere Charlie Chaplin stands in your way.

You also have to contend with various barriers and oddly-shaped walls which block your access to some of the bricks. Luckily there are also plenty of bonuses - baseball gloves, Superbat, multi-bats and so on - which can help you, but largely it comes down to how skilful you are at waggling the joystick and controlling Bunny.

Despite the "cartoon style" animation and the themed backgrounds - Bunny's stadium, Bunny's beach, Bunny's paradise, Bunny's moon and Bunny's jungle where Bong awaits - there's nothing here to get at all excited about. After you've finally managed to get used to the awkward control mechanism and knocked off a couple of levels, your face soon starts to sag down towards your belly as you realise that's all the game has to offer.

This could be a good game to get out when those hated relatives come round, but do you really want to spent £25.99 on it? The only really amusing bit in the game is when you see Bong creep towards Boubou on the final level and bite her head off, but then by this stage you're so fed up that Sid Little begins to look like a comic genius.

Sad to say, but Bunny Bricks is pure, unadulterated crap. There's nothing here to capture your imagination, the control mechanism is awkward and the backgrounds are nothing to shout down a rabbit-hole about. You're going to have to be pretty desperately bored to want to play Bunny Bricks. You just can't help wondering why programmers bother to develop games like this when we're still waiting for the sequel to Monkey Island. Avoid.