It's a sad fact that the vast majority of console ports to the Wii are dire. Coming generally as they do from the more powerful consoles, token efforts are made to utilise the Wiimote in increasingly more useless ways. Mercury Revolution, however, gives this trend a good bucking. Ported from the PSP, and with excellent Wii controls, it was clearly destined for the lil' white box. The aim: guide a blob of mercury around increasingly mind bending courses, via tilt control of the platforms, in much the same way as the old Get-the-ball-bearing-in-the-hole balance games, but much much more intense. Colour changes are required to flip switches as you dodge mercury suicide blobs, bounce around with gravity benders, split your blob into sub blobs to negate barriers and all manner of other hellish tasks - all as you try to keep as much of your precious Hg on the level (of which there 150+) as possible. Mix all this devilishly cerebral puzzling with the excellently simple balance controls of the Wii (THE most intuitive controls yet: hold sideways, and tilt) and you have one of the best pick-up and play experiences on the console. While there are no gaming revolutions underway here, MR doesnt aim for that. It is simply a massively addictive title, which will bring out the Zen balance master in us all. [Josh Wilson]