America's Next Top Model Review

America's Next Top Model
Eidos
DS
£24.99

NOT that I've ever watched it, you understand, but I believe there is a popular TV show which is the 'inspiration' for this exercise in narcissism.

The aim of the telly version is for numerous lovely ladies who have spent their entire lives being told they're a 'princess' by their mothers, to bitch, trample over people, and generally in the most unpleasant way possible, slime their way to the top of the catwalk tree.

The game, on the other hand, is on the DS, and as such is of rather more wholesome construction, being as its target audience is young girls.

And to be fair it's not all that bad at all - and given that I thought it was going to be reprehensible, tedious and above all, up itself, is something.

The game is similar to the show, in that you're up against nine other contestants, and must undertake a series of challenges including posing, pouting and, erm, wearing clothes.

It's not all that bad - my five year old daughter found it to be quite good fun, and didn't seem particularly corrupted by the experience.

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