For such players, Ace Ventura will prove supremely frustrating. But players should always be in control, should always be able to override unnecessary scenes easily with a click of the mouse - there are some players for whom the game's the thing. Understand me: I'm not opposed to creative scenes and dialogue in a game, the kind that elaborate on character or further the story. Time and again, the game hijacks the player and forces him to sit through a scene whether he wants to or not. Worse than the fact that Ace Ventura is more an interactive movie than it is an adventure game is the fact that Ace's creators seem not to have cared about that one whit. Unlike many adventure games wherein your choices throughout can take the game in any one of several possible directions, in Ace Ventura there is generally only one right answer and until you find it the game grinds to a boring halt. You may be in control of where Ace moves within a particular scene, but the fact remains that it's still a scene, scripted the outcome is non-negotiable. A number of elements in the game combine to make it more like the movie. The game is presented in the second-person perspective - you see Ace and his sidekick, Spike the Monkey, on your screen at all times and you steer them through the puzzles they encounter.