If you win a game, you can play it in Challenge mode and upload your fastest times to Openfeint. Fans of Mumsey will be pleased to hear she’s here in the Medieval zone, less delighted to hear that her questions are all multiple choice, I was getting repeats on the second playthrough and it’s now bizarrely automatic lock-in. There’s a quite good rip-off of Labyrinth making good use of the tilt function, also making surpring good use is using the tilt to move crosshairs in the two shooting games they have. The games work but they’re not in the main wildly inventive – BLOODY Towers of Hanoi, a sliding puzzle and a pelmanism-esque memory game all feature, other mental games are a massively difficult circuit connection one, and a game called ‘Ignition’ which despite the lengthy instructions I couldn’t quite work out very well – it’s all very well doing all the instructions at the beginning, but having team mates shout hints if you look stuck might have been a nice addition. This is really, really, really, really, really hard.

Winning a game wins a Crystal (worth a nice round 7.5 seconds in the Crystal Dome), you can exit a game at any time by hitting the exit button, but running out of time or losing automatic lock-in games results in one of your contestants being locked in. In each zone you’ll get a choice of three games (given the traditional physical, mental, skill and mystery labels) which you’ll play two of. Your journey through the maze will consist of eight games, two per zone (there’s no Ocean world here). This offers fewer games (just fourteen), but looks lovely and uses your machine’s functions quite well. This isn’t the first Crystal Maze video game of course – lest we forget the not-what-you’d-call- brilliant PC version in the mid-nineties. It’s not been on proper telly for years, but still companies like to use The Crystal Maze to tap into your entertainment glands, Crystal Maze pub skill-with-prizes touchscreen machines have been around for years and years, and you can now play it on your iPod. Old school wireframe action except coloured in.

Crystal maze games to play at home