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James Whittle

There has never been a game that  crashes and burns more horribly than this new Sony Playstation Portable game.  
CID the Dummy is a  3D side-scrolling action platformer that is so  offensive  it makes Halle Berry's Catwoman  seem Oscar worthy for best picture and directing.
This is Oxygen Games' first multi-platforming release  and  everything about it is mediocre or  rubbish - there are  no  positive features  at all.
 Instead of  making this a fun game, the developers  seem to have spent  too much time coming up with  witty acronyms.  
Besides the  hero CID (crash impact dummy), there is his owner Professor B.M. Werken (BMW), and the professor's daughter MIA (missing in action). MIA has been kidnapped by a half-man, half-crash dummy called D-TROIT, who serves as the  typical Saturday morning cartoon villain.
The main problem is that the game  is  dull and uninspired. Players are tasked with running, punching, shooting and jumping around a level filled with obstacles, traps and baddies. All these seem  to have been recycled from the junkyards  of rejected game ideas. 
The game's hero, a self-aware crash test dummy, is the  opposite of what he is supposed to be, a plastic dummy that should be able to survive a few bangs and scratches.
You would expect him to be like Wylie E. Coyote, who's able to walk off a cliff or smash into a canyon floor before picking  himself up  as if nothing has happened. Unfortunately CID seems susceptible to the slightest fall.
The characters are  poorly animated and the graphics are ordinary.  
The soundtrack is  nothing to write home about - there would  be no  real impact even if you turned it off.
CID the Dummy is a poor man's version of Secret Agent Clank that was released in May  for  Playstation 2 and  June last year for the PSP. 
Where CID fails - which is in everything - Clank succeeds. Save your money and get Secret Agent Clank instead.



CID the Dummy