Cleverly ill timed to be sure it isn't released alongside the recent movie's ham-fisted attack on the cinemas, this crude cash-in is actually a little like 24. Yes, that 24: there's a real-time counter ticking down for eight hours, just like in the show. Except this is the episode where Jack is forced to do the housework. Don't remember that one? Exactly...

Garfield has messed up the house, so owner Jon orders the feline to spruce up the place before he returns home from work. The timer ticks down towards the time Jon will return, but when the gameplay resorts to moving misplaced objects using a back-mounted vacuum cleaner, how can you fill almost 500 minutes going from one room to another, sucking up and spitting out items? Easy, you'll be waiting for the darned thing to load! Unfathomably, while games like San Andreas or The Getaway can render miles of terrain on the fly, this game has problems with letting you climb the stairs between floors in a three-bedroom semi.

Such slowness isn't reserved for just the loading, either. The dire voice work plods along, repeatedly reciting dour punch lines from the cartoon strips, while the numb controls make picking things up far harder than it needs to be.

Mindlessly executed with what feels like no effort at all, this feels very edutainment. Someone fetch the rope and the sack... this gameplay kitten needs drowning.

Graphics 30%
"High quality visuals" lies the box blurb

Sound 20%
Even the voice actors sound bored

Gameplay 20%
Bad idea terribly executed.

Lifespan 20%
Well at least the disc makes a nice coaster.

Overall 20%
You're an unfunny wiseass cat cleaning up a house. In real time. We can't even begin to sum up how pointless this 'game' is.