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Wizkid is every reviewer's dream and nightmare in the same box. On the one hand, it's so damned playable, colourful, fun, brilliant, sexy, smooth and fast that stupidly salacious sentences simply slide out of your word processor. On the other it's, well, odd. Odd, and difficult to categorise.

It we were to categorise Wizkid, we would probably call it a psychedelic adventure scenario, based around Breakout, with a few puzzles thrown in for good measure. Let's just say that it was written by Sensible Software, and they're well known for producing quality, but original, software.

The star of the game is Wizkid. He has two main modes of play: Head and Body, which makes it into a philosopher's nightmare (Does Head control Body, or vice versa?). Use Head to knock bricks around colourful screens. Bricks kill insects, insects turn into bubbles, bubbles contain musical notes, and musical notes change into coins.

You can leave Head mode and join Body any time you wish. Puzzles come along with Body mode, the answers to which involve items bought from the shop. So, imagine zipping between Head and Body mode, making money, spending it then solving some puzzles, and you've probably got some idea of Wizkid. Or not. It's great. Does your Head hurt?

1. Beautiful psychedelic graphics.
2. Brilliant arcade fun...
3. ...with some puzzle elements.

1. Banging bricks with your bonce could give you a headache.