The Seattle Times does a nice job bashing The Da Vinci Code video game.

By now, odds are that you've read "The Da Vinci Code," seen the Tom Hanks movie, picketed about one or the other somewhere, or sued author Dan Brown. And you might not immediately think that the story — about an American professor and a French cryptographer racing to decipher clues that will shake the Catholic Church — lends itself easily to a video game.

It doesn't.

This mix of abstruse puzzle-solving, stealth and awkward fighting is like a video-game celise. (That's the spikey thing that Silas the killer albino monk, and other especially zealous members of the ultra-conservative Opus Dei sect, wrap around their thighs for penance.)

There are times when I'm scrambling around for a game to review, that I pray for something really bad to fall in my lap. Bad games are so much easier to review than good ones. —Brian Crecente

Seattle Times Disses on Da Vinci Game [Cathode Tan]