Giants arrive with heads made from cola bottle tops. Others roll cap-gun ammunition instead of demolition equipment. Some of the crudely sketched barbarians carry lolly stick battering rams. Like those epic biro battles scrawled on the covers of countless schoolbooks, it's as if a malevolent child's imagination has burst into life. Here, in Nintendo-land, it's all been sanitised with a deliberately lo-fi hand-made feel. In the original, this is a messy and bloody affair. You do this by picking them up and flinging them as hard as you can so that they squish on the ground. With so many games greedily - and presumptuously - placed in the premium 1000-Point WiiWare price bracket, it's refreshing to be able to report on a title that knows its limits.Ī remake of the popular internet game, it asks you to live up to the title by repelling wave after wave of stick-men invaders.
