Electronic Arts is set to take you back to your childhood. No, dont worry, you can put aside lingering fears of Beefy Bob, the lunch money thief. Its rosetinted nostalgia that EA is gunning for here. In EA Playground, youll wander out into the school yard in search of fun, exploration and friends. The game lays out a series of challenges aimed at a family audience in a bright and cuddly package. Frankly, its a fair bit cheerier than our collective memory of the schoolyard. Players make their way through the playground, moving to different areas where theyll find assorted playground games going on some of them you might have found in your own schoolyard experience. Players go along, collecting the playgrounds currency of choice marbles and trading them for stickers to boost their abilities. The DS version features dodgeball, hoops basketball, hopscotch, RC Racers cars, racing, nuff said, bug hunt, kicks reworked footy, skate and sketch dotconnecting skating madness, spitballs blow into the microphone to fire them! and trampoline. Go on, show Beefy Bob youre not afraid anymore.