Pain PSN £4.99 (Additional content also available)

The wait for this to make it onto the EU Store has been a long time and I was starting to think that maybe it just wasn't going to be worth it. The game is basically catapoulting a person at aobjects and trying to cause as much damage as possible. This is mainly done by causing chain reactions and bouncing (aftertouch)

I was so sadly mistaken. This game is awesome but only when you've got passed the slightly confusing training. The game is played using all the buttons on the pad and they seem to have different context's. Ie when flying the face buttons (Symbol buttons) to grabs the the respective directs or when pressed with either of the Left shoulder button hold pose.

Once you're through the training the real game opens and you have a choice between single player and multiplayer. I can recommend HORSE as a 4 player pass the pad game. A person sets up the target and a score from hitting that target then everyone else has to try and beat the score by hitting the same thing. If you fail to reach the score you are given a letter and have to sit out until everyone until the top score isn't beaten. Anyone who's played Tony Hawk will be familier with this set up.

The highest score was set by a friend of over 700,000 which nobody came close to. It is really satisfying when you keep boucing into thing s and keep your combo going.

We also had a play at 2 player bolwing where I person fires there character at giant pins in the aim to knock them over and player two has 3 counter measures they can launch to put the other person off. The funniest thing I saw was watch a firnmd lauch himself expecting to go under a giant metal beam dropped by another friend instead he ended up looking like Wyle Ceote and when splat straight intop the center of the metal girder. Much laughter and replays insued.

I've not fully played all the aspects of the game but I will endeavour to try and fully review it soon.