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PC game Only Fools and Horses Comedy Pack In a sense, of course, you expect to be turned over by Del Boy and Rodney, but not quite like this. Clearly cut from the same electronic cloth as The Fast Show Comedy Pack which I looked at last week, this is at least marginally better in that some care has been taken to credit the source of the video clips (62 to the Fast Show's 48) to specific episodes, and the Windows customisation tools feel more solid (though sharing an icon with the Fast Show product is sloppy). The games, however, are equally unimaginative (a fruit machine, a quiz and the world's worst driving game) and although it includes the viewers' favourite clip of Del falling through the bar, the characters and the series deserve better than this.

Five out of 10. BBC Multimedia: 01795 414715 (www.bbcshop.com), 19.99.

Rob Beattie South Park Rally One of the more worthwhile spin-offs from the caustic cartoon series is this racing game in which you can take on the guise of any of the four foulmouthed third-graders and compete against most of the regular members of the cast in customised jalopies. To start with, only two rallys are available. Only when you've hurtled Bullitt-like round several circuits of South Park, passing through numbered checkpoints to gain pole position, will you gain access to the third of 14 insanely themed races.

Read-A-Book Day (which has little to do with literacy and more to do with your ability to catch chickens) and Big Gay Al's Pink Lemonade Race are but two. Don't be fooled by the bawdy humour; it's almost as challenging as anything Colin McCrae could come up with.

Seven out of 10. Acclaim Entertainment: 0171 344 5000 (www.acclaim.com), 39.99.

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