As a gamer of the “older” persuasion I grew up on a diet of Scooby-Doo cartoons as a kid. I never got bored of the same old plotline in every cartoon, predictable pesky kids and multiple mask-ripping endings either.

I even endured the “Scrappy years” but they were never the same. I took my kids to the Scooby movies and snickered at the tongue in cheek drug references and admired Sarah Michelle Geller’s figure. Like all great genres there has to be something for everyone.

The opening scene has more canned laughter than an American sit-com and it soon starts to grate as Shaggy cracks yet another joke. Luckily the laughter is used in the cut scenes only and isn't part of the actual game. Character voices seem to be done by sound-a-likes and not the original cast or movie cast which is a shame.

Scooby Doo! Unmasked feels okay, plays okay and ticks all the boxes for your average run of the mill platformer. Sadly it delivers little else. The levels in the game get progressively bigger but never really offer many new thrills. Graphics are fairly repetitive so you often think you are doing the same section of a level when you are not.

So overall, if you are a lover of Scooby Doo and platformers this may be a game for you. It offers nothing new or exciting to the genre. It is well executed and does nothing functionally or cosmetically wrong, it just doesn’t set the platforming world alight. Perhaps it is a little too easy and not enough of a challenge. When my kids began to get bored of it and complained about the repetitiveness I started to think it may have missed the mark for the younger market too.