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Five different kinds of bugs are available, each with different attributes. On your journey, you must collect money to add to your score as well as bugs to put in your bug gun. You have been summoned to a tropical island to help the Muddrakes retrieve their stolen mojo idol, Shabuhm Shabuhm. You are Maui Mallard, a hard-boiled, aloha-shirt-clad private dick.er.duck. What it does have is about fifty hours of good ol' fashioned jump-and-punch action. It doesn't have real-time 3-D environments or multiplayer network play or even mouse support. This is quite possibly the best low-tech title to come out this year. And Disney Interactive's latest, Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow, proves that good platform games can and do exist. It's not really the genre that sucks - it's the individual games. A few million Mario Brothers fans can't be wrong, though.

Since they're the easiest kind of game to produce, and everybody and his brother thinks he can just whip out a good one overnight, the rather limited selection of platformers this last year has been staggeringly dull. As you maneuver Donald through the colorful detailed world of the island, something will strike you immediately: Maui Mallard has hours of gameplay to offer due to its huge levels and that it's not just a game for kids it's challenging enough for older gamers to play and enjoy and has enough humor and detail to fascinate fans and non-fans of the world of Disney.Platform-style games haven't been getting a whole lot of respect lately, and for good reason.

Maui Mallard is set up like a traditional platform game, but unlike most carts in this genre, it actually has a ton of creativity on its side.The folks at Disney Interactive have made a new universe for Donald to inhabit, and it's a beauty.The game's visual design is highly reminiscent of I940's-era cartoons, I920's surrealism and I990's nostalgia. His latest case takes him on a quest for the missing idol of Shabuhm Shabuhm, an ancient artifact that protects the island from evil "mojo spirits." He has three days to find it if he fails, the island is doomed, if he succeeds, he'll be a hero. He's what they call a "Quack Detective," a hardboiled duck with a Hawaiian print shirt, a smart bill and a trusty bug gun that gets him out of tight situations.

Maui Mallard is a new character to the Disney universe and he's played by Donald Duck. Maui Mallard, an original title from Disney Interactive, looks to be another feather in the cap of the Mouse.

While there may have been a few misfires in the past, quality games like Mickey Mania, Aladdin, The Lion King and Quackshot, among others, have successfully translated the tradition of great storytelling and beautiful artwork that Disney is famous for. Disney video games have always maintained a standard of quality that must be the envy of licensees everywhere.