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SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, PANTS!

Categories: Review: Software
Author: Ben Lawrence
Publisher: THQ
Machine: Xbox (EU Version)

 
Published in Official Xbox Magazine #50

Brain-hurting party mayhem in a giant pineapple

SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, PANTS! (THQ)

Flip burgers, catch burgers, go faster, flip burgers, catch burgers, go faster, flip burgers, catch burgers, go faster... Take orders, make orders, serve orders, repeat! SpongeBob leads a crazy, crazy life, but we're not sure if taking part in it is all that good for your health.

Sold as a 'party' game, Lights, Camera, PANTS! is as baffling and unfathomable a title as you're likely to find. Every 'game', of which there seems to be hundreds of the psychedelic bleeders, is an assault on the senses. If it's not working in the fast food store, it's lifting weights against muscle-bound sharks, cliff climbing while a conveyor belt above spews rubbish down on you, or taking part in a John Travolta-style dance-off against robots.

Things are so fast and frenzied it'll no doubt make the perfect party game to any 14-year-old with access to his parent's booze cabinet and the pin number to unlock Men and Motors on Sky. This is not a party game for anyone who likes things ordered and with definable goals. It's all about bashing buttons randomly and looking around to see whether your rivals have cottoned on, or are just as clueless as you are. It's probably the only party game we can think of where skill doesn't seem to matter, but being a frantic, spotty hyperactive boy is probably an advantage.

It features all the characters from the TV show, but that doesn't matter because you'll be so knee-deep in button sequences and flying hamburgers you won't even notice. Odd is not the word.

Grab a packet of aspirin and judge for yourself.

Verdict

Insane to the point of being unfathomable SpongeBob may be "kerazy", but we think he's taken it one step too far this time.

Ben Lawrence

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