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There seems to be a strange trend of late for games which effectively play by themselves. Like waiting for an install to finish on a PC, it feels like you’re actually doing something constructive whilst elsewhere making tea. Football Manager and Sim City were always the kings of such lazy game-playing, yet Pro Evo seems to be attempting to steal that crown now, with the ‘Become a Legend’ mode, whereby you effectively sit on the bench as your computer compatriots run round like headless chickens. The hard work of actually playing is done by the game while you’re left to concentrate on more pressing matters, such as playing an entirely different game on another console/laptop, cooking a stir-fry or just drinking neat whiskey.

To some, fiddling about with the fundamentals of the godfather of gaming, Tetris, is the equivalent of squatting on the Mona Lisa and curling one out. Yet with a now yearly update to the mobile version of Tetris, game makers (well, Electronic Arts) have become fed-up with the minor adjustment of yearly re-branding the game and given the classic puzzler a complete overhaul for the mobile generation.