Brain Challenge (PSP)

Description: Genre: Puzzle for Sony PSP / 3 years and over / Published by: Ubisoft

Newest Review: ... and memory, in a manner that bares more than a passing resemblance to a number of Nintendo DS brain-trainers that had ... more

... previously been doing the rounds. It won't make you cleverer, and it's debatable whether it really sharpens your mind in any meaningful way but, as with all games with which you invest your time, it gives you the satisfaction of seeing your improvements yield positive results, dissecting and explaining them via a fine range of statistics and graphs. There's plenty to recommend it, not least the pocket-friendly £7.99 price-tag, but perhaps Brain Challenge's biggest success is how well it fits the gaming-on-the-move mantr...more

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Brain Challenge (PSP): How To Avoid Brain-Freeze (848 words)
by - written on 30/09/09 (Very useful, 70 readings)
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Upon booting up Brain Challenge, I felt the grumpy gaming purist in me beginning to surface, telling me that I should really resent what I was letting myself in for. After all, it's a title that unashamedly flies the flag of 'edutainment', with super-clinical menu screens and music that lends it the air of a tacky game show. Or maybe it's the tutoring you receive from the white-coat clad virtual 'Doctors', whose irritating manner suggests that, in terms of mental competence, they see you as somewhere between the level of a child and a lab-rat. If they're not being condescending about your memory or reflex skills, they're spouting facts about brain usage (before later ... Read the complete review