Love it or hate it, there’s no denying that The Da Vinci Code has been a huge success. With mind-numbingly large sales figures, it’s no surprise that someone has seen fit to adapt it into a game.

As the screenshots suggest, The Da Vinci Code is an action adventure game. Placing you in control of central characters of the book – Professor Robert Langdon and police cryptographer Sophie Neveu – it sees you travelling through France and England in search of the Holy Grail.

The gameplay consists of two main parts: fighting and puzzle solving. The fighting is weak, as it relies heavily on combos and rhythmic mouse clicking. While there’s no blood or gore, it still manages to be awfully brutal at times – Langdon may look nerdy, but he can deliver one hell of a nasty punch when he wants to. Ultimately, the battles are a chore and an extremely unpleasant one at that.

On the other hand, the puzzles are sometimes passable. They range from the standard ‘find the gold key’ affairs to some more interesting cryptography problems, which see you shuffling around numbers and symbols in search of hidden messages.

The main problem with this game is the general lack of presentation. The character models are terrible, the voice acting is a joke and the controls are occasionally quite awkward. No matter how much you loved the book, you’d have to be mad to waste your time or money on this.