Antz Racing

Sir David Attenborough is a man who likes ants. A lot. He's seemingly always got his head stuck in an anthill, waffling on by the light of his 'Insect Cam' about how organised the little buggers are. If he had his way, the nation's TV schedules would be choc-a-bloc with ant-related shows – so obsessed is he with the home-lives of our leaf-carrying pals. Ants In Practice, Changing Hills, AntEnders and Ready Steady Ant! would replace normal telly before we had a chance to do something about it. Sir David would be chuffed to learn then, that according to Antz Racing on the Game Boy Color, the little blighters can drive as well!

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Antz was a fairly crap animated film released in 1998 (Oh come on! You lot have no taste in movies at all – Roy) which followed the lives of Z, a worker ant with annoying Woody Allen mannerisms, and his bunch of tiny friends. Hence, EA have used the ingenious characters and environments from that film and stapled them loosely onto an isometrically-viewed version of Mario Kart. Although this doesn't sound too original, the characters are varied enough and the races tricky enough to keep you interested for ages.

There are loads of different tracks to race around, either in one-off 'Quick Race' mode or 'Four Seasons' – which is a championship of four races, with each one having different weather conditions to keep the action nice and interesting.

Thankfully, the programmers have remembered the one thing that makes games last – playability. The range of icons to pick up, from speed bursts to invincibility, might be fairly standard, but Antz Racing is still great fun.

The game's graphics, detail and above all sheer speed make this a great title, even though it is Mario Kart with a few extra bits tacked on. If you fancy a rip-roaring racer for the GBC, there can't be many that top this one!