Grease

Grease is probably the one and only musical that big burly blokes can admit to liking without immediately having to prove their virility afterwards. For that reason, it has a special place in movie history.

Indeed, continued Easter repeats mean pretty much everyone on the planet has seen Danny and Sandy strut their stuff at the fairground at least once in their life.

Grease is musical royalty, and - as those who've seen the ill-advised sequel will tell you - it shouldn't be messed with.

Yet, for reasons unknown, the great and the good at Zed have attempted to convert Grease's admittedly light plot into a videogame.

Within minutes it's pretty clear that it isn't an especially gripping translation. Grease's status as an icon of '50s-o-rama rather than a bastion of bold storytelling means Zed's tie-in is left with scraps, turning the film's grand musical numbers into little, whimsical button bashers.

Part of the reason Grease falls flat is that, rather than handing you control over the plot, the game charges you with carrying out the most domestic of tasks – opening lockers, cleaning tables in Frosties, and handing in your Rydell High registration papers being some of the early 'highlights'.

With play split between both Sandy and Danny, you spend most of your time wandering Rydell's halls, engaging in conversation with the leagues of non-player characters in order to trigger your next objective.

The problem is, just who you should talk to and when is a mystery, meaning cracking each code is often a case of interacting with everything on offer rather than making an educated guess.

Static lightning

When Grease does burst into song, play shifts into a static and forgiving button pressing mini-game.

A rendition of 'Greased Lightning', for instance, is a limp affair, where simply using the phone's D-pad to re-enact set moves within an especially generous time limit is enough to satisfy your band of T-Birds.

It all results in something of a non-event, where Zed has attempted to package key Grease moments together in a game without much thought given for whether they actually work or not.

It doesn't, making Grease the video game as much of an outcast from the fold as a pre-leather Sandra Dee.