Sometimes you've got to look beyond the posh graphics, ear-pampering soundscapes and eye-meltingly addictive gameplay of software such as this and question the motives.

Yes, Soda Drinker Pro had me up all night smashing through every one of its fiendish levels, but what of my teeth? I'd been drinking soda (or fizzy drinks to those of us who don't wear cowboy hats and 'fanny packs'). Virtual soda, yes, but my virtual teeth were now stained, and Snowrunner

Productions deliberately (it seemed) refused to programme in a virtual toothbrush with which to remedy this sugar battering I'd taken.

It's a shame, really, because otherwise this is game of the year for me, ruined for want of bristled plastic.

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