Welcome to another edition of For What it's Worth, where bargain titles are examined to see if they really are worth your bottom dollar. Tonight, we take a look at a game that doesn't involve any big names from the gaming landscape but rather one which includes characters from a modern day cult-classic cartoon series. Tonight we take a look at Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Zombie Pro-Am for the PlayStation 2.

I know plenty of you are probably thinking, "There was a game based on Aqua Teen Hunger Force?" I thought that very same thing when I first played this at my friend's place last summer. Did I enjoy the game? Nope. Well actually I kinda did but that was due to the influence of alcohol. This might come off as bit of a shock considering the fun factor of such AdultSwim.com games as Robot Unicorn Attack and Jetpack Jackass but when their Williams Street production company brought its most popular franchise to a home console in 2007 it was bad. How bad? Well take the worst possible episode of the show and multiply it by about five. It's pretty damn bad.   

Story: Frylock gets accepted into the local country club and beyond his better judgement, he invites Meatwad and Master Shake to come along and just like the show, all Hell breaks loose and every thing that happens from there makes absolutely no sense at all. I can't really explain it since the story element is pretty much nonexistent. All it is, is a series of random events with characters from the show, like Carl, The Frat Aliens, The Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past, Turkitron, The Mooninites etc. The characters are funny and some of the dialogue is hilarious but there is no real plot. Frylock wants to golf, crazy unexplainable shit happens to spoil it, nuff said.  

Graphics & Design: The show itself isn't exactly on the cutting edge of animation or anything like that but it is a work of art compared to how this game looks. As you can already tell from the clips I have provided, this game looks terrible. I know they tried to transfer the look of the series into a video game format but it just looks like crap. The fact that it looks this bad on the PS 2, which can produce far better graphics than this is ridiculous. Hell, I thought it looked friggin creepy the first time I saw it.

Sound: Like I said before, the characters are as funny in the game as they are on the show and that is because of the solid voice acting. But although the lines are great, they have a habit of being repeated, so they will become less funny as the game progresses. The game offers little in terms of music but we do get some Andrew W.K., which is pretty cool if you happen to remember the episode where Frylock gets cancer. In the multi-player golf game, there is little to no music at all, so I recommend turning on some of your own music or turning the game off. I highly recommend plan B.

Gameplay: Typical levels have you play a round of golf. You hit the ball and then you have to fight your way through a slew of enemies like say the Brownie Monsters or the Trees to get to the ball, then you hit the ball again and fight more enemies. Rinse, rather and repeat. There are also three levels which act like typical cart racers. You have to race against the Frat Aliens in your golf cart. When it comes to the main golf course levels and cart racing levels all I have to say is that the game mechanics suck ass. The camera is broken, combat is tedious, slow and monotonous and the cart is hard to control. Don't even get me started on how un-playable the multi-player golf game is. It has the same craptastic controls as the main game but the ball almost always explodes as soon as it hits the ground (a clever inside joke from the show). This would be forgivable if it were to only happen if it landed in a hazard or if it were out of bounds but it seems to happen every damn time. Luckly when I played this at my buddy's place we were both drinking so we found it hilarious that after an hour or so of playing, we couldn't complete a single hole. Sadly, the joke loses it humor when playing while 100 percent sober.

Extra Features: Four episodes are available right off the bat, as well as some alternative character skins, like Clown Carl and my personal S&M Frylock (that costume puts me in a laughing fit every time I see it).

Frylock: Tell Me I'm bad.

Meatwad (uncomfortable): Yeah. You've defiantly been acting up lately.

Sorry about that. I was thinking about something that was actually entertaining. You can also unlock 12 one minute long cameos featuring fan favorite characters throughout the game and if you collect all of the pieces of the Broodwich (it appeared in Vouge. You know. The Broodwich issue) you unlock the Broodwich battle mode. With the best bits of extra content available right off the bat, there is no reason to play the game any further to collect anything else.

Replay Value: None. Unless you're drunk.

Overall Value: Retail Price- $10 (used)

                          What it's Worth- $3 or less (and that is being kind)

This is one of the worst games I have ever played but considering the people who are responsible seem like the kind of people who would make the game this terrible on purpose as some sort of practical joke, it does seem kind of funny. I will admit that the bad mechanics can be funny at times but it is a joke that gets old very quickly. The fact that they had originally asked gamers and fans of the show (I happen to be both)  to pay $30 for this virtually unplayable mess, is a joke that neither will find very funny. If you are fan, look up the rest of the clips or pick up Volume six on DVD (which features the game's cinematics). If you aren't than don't waste any of your time on it.

Until next time Happy Hunting.