How dull have PS3 games become? Not in a profound sense; we’re not suggesting that the PS3 is anything but a pant-wettingly exciting piece of kit here. No, we’re talking about the more concrete side of things. Take Resistance for example. Great game, but soaked in a kind of brownish hue reminiscent of your parent’s wedding cine film. MotorStorm, again, a fantastic flight through chaos, but well… it’s a bit brown, isn’t it? Heavenly Sword, truly thrilling, but a little on the russet side. The list goes on, and whilst these titles are perhaps more worthy of your attention, titles like SCEE’s Super Rub-A-Dub demand a look, if nothing else but for the riotous rampage of colour they offer.

It’s a basic principle: pretend your Sixaxis is a shallow, strangely shaped bathtub in which a cutesy rubber ducky sits bobbling about. Tilt the tub and – in contravention to numerous laws of physics – your ducky ambles off in that direction. It’s your goal to collect all the smaller ducks on the stage and deliver them safely to the plughole. Marvellously simple and utterly charming, this lovely puzzling action continues through numerous stages and your performance is rated up against others in the online scoreboard. The tilt works graciously well, and serves to remind you that things don’t need to be as brown as they are.

Tom Leclerc