Game Overview
Those of you who don't know about Brain Training must have been living under a rock for the last couple of years. It has swept the entire world keeping peoples brains stimulated in a rather addictive and competitive way on the Nintendo DS.

Professor Kageyamas Maths Training follows the same formula really but focuses on everyone’s worst subject at school - Maths! Oh joy! Now we can practice our maths on the go, how lucky are we! NOT!

We, like most people, hated Maths as a kid, hence the reason we play so many video games now. The chance to practice our maths on our perky little DS Lite is about as exciting as having to listen to a Euro Vision Song Contest CD on repeat for a week, non stop! The idea has obviously been thrown out there as a bit of a money spinner off the back of Brain Training and although we are apparently becoming better at mental arithmetic it is also pretty annoying being told that we are complete idiots!

One thing we will say is to all our school teachers, relatives and in particular our parents who said you don't learn anything with computer games - check us out now! The game doesn't actually stump up anything too difficult, you know every question it's just the fact that you are trying to answer so quickly that you end up rushing and getting it wrong, or that's our excuse anyway.

You'll be presented with simplicity in all directions, graphics, music and sounds and very simple gameplay which can occasionally become addictive. A sum appears on the left screen and you answer it by writing on the touch screen. Simple as that really.

Our Conclusions
Don't expect to be astounded by Maths Training, it's a very basic game which will see more old people wanting a DS, again, going against everything we were told off for when we were kids, one day gaming is bad, the next day all the adults are walking around with a DS. Typical! The good thing about Maths Training is that you'll get change from a twenty, enough for a beer even! There, we worked that out in our heads all by ourselves, that’s something Maths Training can't teach you!

Overall Score: 6/10

Thanks to Nintendo