Sealife Safari takes us on an adventure to the blue sea in what is essentially an on the rails shooter, but for a change, rather than shooting people you are using a camera to shoot pictures of the animals that inhabit each area.  There are 5 areas to explore with your camera including tropical, deep sea and volcano, each area has its own habitat and feel, the tropical area is nice and bright with lots of coral and colourful fish, but as you get deeper the water is darker and the animals don’t look as pretty.

Using the camera is very simple, the right stick moves your sight, the left trigger zooms, right trigger takes a shot and the B button throws your gizmo. The gizmo is a small device that lets you interact with each animal, if you hit them they will do a special move for you, and taking a picture at this moment will gain you extra points and the sometimes hard to get 3 star rating which is required to move through the game. Each level guides you through a predetermined route and it’s up to you to use your 24 photos wisely, run out before the end and you may miss the perfect photo opportunity.

Replay of each level is well thought out, you can get through the first 3 levels no problem, but then you will have to collect more stars by getting those great shots, to do this you can replay the levels, after a few tries on each level, specialties start to appear, this can be a seahorse in a bottle, a crab in a deepsea divers helmet or an eel hiding in a treasure chest, again you have to be very quick to take photos of these moments. At the end of each level you are marked on each photo, here you can save your favourites, plus the instructor will give you tips on how to make a better photo, like getting a better angle or using more zoom.

I was surprised by the addictiveness of Sealife Safari, the slow and relaxing pace and soundtrack is a startling difference to most of the games I have been playing of late and I really liked it.