Top Trumps Doctor Who preview for Nintendo DS

With Doctor Who fever gripping the nation's children, Top Trumps: Doctor Who on the DS should tempt them out from the traditional Doctor Who viewing position behind the sofa when it's released later this month. It's looking like as good an electronic rendition of Top Trumps as you're likely to find, with a full complement of familiar faces from the recent Doctor Who series. We've had a sneak preview of the game this month - find out what to expect from Top Trumps: Doctor Who in this issue of HGZine.

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Top Trumps Doctor Who preview for Nintendo DS
Though we can't help but be a touch disappointed that we're not getting some kind of action-adventure featuring the good Doctor, this is about as good a game of Top Trumps as you'll get on a console. As you might expect, you hold the DS on its side and use the stylus to pick your card's best attribute to try and beat your opponent.

What do we know? While there's plenty of mileage in the standard formula – with single-player modes of varying difficulties, a host of characters from the show to play as and single-cart multiplayer options – Eidos has added a few interesting tweaks.