15 Video Games Made To Sell You Products

15. Smarties: Meltdown - Smarties

How do you make a game based on Smarties?

There isn't really a Smarties mascot to star in their own video game, and the worlds presented in the Smarties adverts aren't exactly begging to be explored.

At least with something like Ronald McDonald or the M&M characters you could see a kid getting attached and wanting to play something featuring them. Not even the weirdest kid would want to explore the Smarties world.

So they have no world, no character, and nobody who would even play the game. That normally stops a game from being made yet Smarties were determined to make something to take up shelf space so we got Smarties: Meltdown.

In this game you play as a Smartie called Big Blue who must explore the Smarties factory to rescue the rest of his kind and defeat the evil Dr. Soursweet.

Since the Smarties factory setting doesn't need to be realistic you think they'd make it a colourful location to make their chocolates appear magical. Nope, they set it in a grey metallic building which is so boring that it's probably just modelled after a real-life factory.

It's in space but that is so irrelevant to how the game looks that it's barely worth mentioning.