When evil billionaire Leonard Saber threatens to take over the world with his army of household appliances, who you gonna call? Yep, you call Ghostbusters. Then you realise they aren't much help against the living and you call in the G-Force, an FBI-trained team of superspies who, er, happen to be guinea pigs.
G-Force is an espionage adventure based on the recent 3D movie starring Sam Rockwell, Nicolas Cage and Penelope Cruz. The video game is, like the film, a lot like Mission Impossible fused with Toy Story, so we view everything from Darwin the guinea pig's point of view as he infiltrates Saber's secret facility via air vents and tunnels.
G-Force is made up of team leader Darwin, his housefly Mooch (reconnaissance), Juarez (martial arts), Blaster (weapons), Hurley (new recruit) and Speckles the mole (computer hacker). Each has a role to play in the story, but the player only gets to take control of Darwin and Mooch.
The FBI have had their eye on Leonard Saber (voiced by Bill Nighy) for quite some time and thanks to the work of the G-Force they uncover Saber's plan to turn all his household products into an army using his Sabersense uplink (I, Robot anyone?). It's up to G-Force to infiltrate his mansion by avoiding guards and stealing key-cards.
Having already played G-Force on the Wii, only two differences emerge with the Xbox/PS3 versions. Firstly it obviously looks much sharper in terms of graphics and the controls work slightly better without the player having to point the Wii remote at the screen to aim Darwin's Plasma Gun. Secondly there's the option to toggle the game between 2D and 3D whenever you like, thanks to the two free pairs of 3D glasses that come included with the game.
The 3D view works surprisingly well, but as with most other basic anaglyph glasses you can't play very long without feeling nauseous. The colours also seem very washed out compared to the colourful 2D version. Playing the game in 3D isn't as smooth or rewarding an experience as it was watching the movie at the cinema, but it could have been worse.