Creat Studio’s first PSP Mini title is Alien Havoc. Your task? Well you’re an alien and have to steal cows and avoid farmers. Oddly, the title and loading screens have more interesting graphics than the game itself does.

The game presents you with a sort of isometric view and you run your little alien around and collect cows. For ammo, when the farmers take up the chase, you don’t have anything high tech like a ray gun or even a stick. No, you have to throw cabbages or cows at them.

Ridiculous I know. An alien going out into the world to steal cows and forgetting his human-zapping anal probe in the Saucer, not very believable. But yet that’s the trick.

The levels are laid out in a very basic eternally wrapping setup where if you walk too far in one direction you basically end up where you were before. In your way are certain types of obstacles like fences, tractors and of course those dastardly farmers.

Now these farmers are super strong because while you can pick up a full-grown cow and carry it about indefinitely, you cannot defeat the farmers who will pick you up and capture you as soon as they catch up to you.

Overall this game isn’t all the much fun. The gameplay is sort of slow and boring. The mechanics of the game make little sense and you don’t really understand why it is you’re stealing the cows except of course for the fact that you’re an alien. The game has a very 16-bit feel to it but it doesn’t feel retro, I know that sounds off. Perhaps it’s just the sub-standard game graphics and gameplay. The sound helps complete the feeling that you’ve just purchased a game that was made maybe fifteen years ago and dusted off to be sold as a PSP Mini. Overall, the gaming experience here is dull and I can’t see many of you being interested in this title for any length of time. I’m not even completely sure it’s worth the price.