Celebrity Match

Celebrity spotters. You know, I'm not sure what's worse - being one of the so-called stars they hound, hiding behind closed doors and ducking out to Tesco with a bag over your head; or the poor blighters who stand outside their houses in all weathers, rooting through their bins and waiting to get a picture of them without any make-up on.

Celebrity Match provides a much easier, toastier way of spotting those stars we all love to hate, but sadly it's not much more entertaining than finding yourself hunting in the midst of a Big Brother has-been's bean tins. This is, essentially, the card game pelmanism, more simply known as 'pairs'.

Pairs, albeit with the addition of the kind of snapped-with-a-minute's-notice photos you see sprawled across the gossip rags every week. Here the idea is to pair up the matching celeb snaps by turning over a grid of cards, two at a time, to uncover the pictures hidden on the other side. Memorising where each and every star is so that it takes as few moves as possible to clear the board is the aim.

In truth, the most entertaining part of the whole set-up is the chosen celebs. While Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt might both seem like obvious picks, Zinedene Zidane is perhaps more of an acquired taste. Sadly, the photo in question doesn't feature him headbutting anybody, either.

Regardless, the actual stars featured make very little difference, and Celebrity Match goes out of its way to make one of the simplest games on earth as frustrating as it possibly can.

Of most note is the fact that the game insists on zooming in on each picture every single time you click on one - even though it's entirely obvious both who they are and whether they're the star you're looking for when viewed in its original size.

It's the kind of delay that makes the most straightforward, and sadly necessary, of actions a painful chore.

Although Celebrity Match does comes with a multiplayer mode, which sees you and a partner squaring off on the same map (essentially, whoever goes last tends to win, presuming you don't cover the phone up every time you make a move), this is a title with the most tenuous link to the glitzy world of the rich and famous that you're ever likely to see.

Simply licensing a few press shots of a score of Hollywood A-listers does not a game make, and Celebrity Match has little going for it to warrant you parting with with your money.