"For Eons, the Arcane Department of Heroic Defence (ADHD) has deployed its agents throughout the Myth Worlds to ensure the safety of their inhabitants. However, something's gone wrong. The elder demon Cthulahoop is attempting to take over the Myth worlds and enslave the people.

In Hit and Myth, you're an ADHD operative, and you must protect six of the Myth Worlds. You can choose one of four characters with which to take on Cthulahoop, including bumbling knight Cadbury, hard-boiled leprechaun Grimalkin, Squatch the Yeti and tough, sexy pirate lass, Esmerelda.

Adventure game nuts will enjoy Hit and Myth, but should keep their tongues firmly embedded in their cheeks!"

The game options as with most Gizmondo games are basic with sound, music, brightness options available, no In-game saving, but the game saves your status after each level is completed.

Game Status - Hit & Myth was not released commercially via retail outlets but rather by one of the game's producers via online auction site, although mostly bug free the game is missing a couple of levels that would have featured if the game was completed.

A great intro to the game with full speech and rendered stills introducing the background story nicely.

The game world itself is made up of textured polygons with normal sprites for enemies ala Doom, the lighting on the levels is superb, the light 'source' so to speak is you're character, so as you move around you light up areas like a Christmas tree, which brings me nicely onto the feel of the game.

The game itself has a very Christmassy feel to it with items like presents, Tree's, Reindeer and Xmas Lights all littered around the levels!

Animation of your character is very smooth though maybe actually a few frames less of animation would have made the game flow a bit faster, but to sum up some of the best presentation in a Gizmondo game upto this point which was a shame as what could have followed.

More screenshots below of this great looking game.

Speech throughout the game, though the game also contains the odd bit of swearing which is pretty unnecessary in a game of this sort - hence the 12 rating the game would have received if it had a retail release.

Sound effects are also good quality especially the footsteps effects for walking around, while the different weapons all contain cartoony type effects.

Music wise, the title screen music is great, with a fantasy style tune and very good it is too, though the in-game music doesn't live up to the aforementioned track.

Hit & Myth is best described as a Gauntlet clone, although the controls are more akin to Robotron or SmashTV.

Shooting baddies and objects to receive fuzzy orbs to replenish your health and shield, collecting keys will enable entry to new sections of the world.

Control wise all buttons are utilised, 'R' brings the world map up, 'L' is your shield, the 4 main buttons each control direction of fire, while pressing any direction twice quickly on the D-Pad will make your character do a somersault out of the way. As mentioned above, fewer frames of animation of your character would have helped speed things up but the game plays well and is straightforward enough to get straight into the action.

• Great graphics and presentation
• Innovative controls

It's quite good fun while it lasts, the great presentation throughout makes it feel like a very polished looking title.

Loading takes roughly 12-13 seconds to load a level up which is some of the longest loading times on the Gizmondo, though the levels are fairly big so you won't be waiting too much each play.

Overall, despite a few flaws the game has unique charms of it's own to warrant playing through, though whether you would go play through it all again after completing is another matter, a very good, but not quite the AAA title we were hoping for.

• Low replay factor
• Long loading times