
In addition to the little trivia challenges, Shrek 2 contains six mini-games derived from the movie. Now, once you roll the dice, your landing spot is a foregone conclusion, but it would still have been nice to actually have a head's up as to what is about to befall your game piece. You roll the dice and move your game pieces around the snaking paths, landing on squares that trigger events, but you never know what you're getting into until you actually land on the square and the game indicates whether you've lost a turn, get to roll again, or play a little trivia game for bonus points.

The initial problem with Shrek 2 is that the board is unreadable. Enter Shrek 2, which plops up to four gamers on a winding board and, between rolls of the dice, casts them in mini-games based on movie sequences. However, the video board game, a category almost single-handedly invented by Nintendo's Mario Party franchise, has yet to really be represented in the wireless world. Trivia from the movies Pretty much every genre has been attempted on cellphones now - fighting, driving, sports, et al.Does Dreamworks' $300 million ogre fare well on the smallest of small screens?

Latest case in point: Shrek 2, from Activision and Skyzone. Summer 2004 is a turning point for the movie marketing industry - in addition to the requisite lunchboxes, bed sheets, and cereal, these box office behemoths are also supported by cellphone games.
