You live a dead-end life as a bartender in a dingy, sordid establishment - not nice at all. Fed up, you decide one day that it's time to make a move, to start afresh, to tell the boss where to shove himself and his awful job, and begin a new chapter of your life. But what exactly is the best way to go about doing all that? Well, why not embezzle a million dollars in grant money from your former employer and decide to flee to Mexico City? Simple!

Meet Roger Samms, a lowly entomologist (that's someone who studies insects, so it is), who ranks as just the man for such a huge life-changing turnaround. However, immediately before Roger escapes his depressing lifestyle once and for all, an argument with his obnoxious landlord triggers a memory from his early childhood, that of a bug-like locket given to him by his late mother. Not wanting to leave it behind, Roger duly tracks it down.

Yet, upon discovering the locket, our hero is suddenly transformed into a cockroach the size of, well, the average cockroach. In his shrunken, creepy-crawly form, Roger's primary preoccupation is how he's ever going to get back to normal, but guided by the oracle of his mother, the plotline twists to follow the protagonist and the lives of his peers in a story that brings them all close together... much more than Roger could have ever thought imaginable.

Originally released in February of 1996, and then again in December of 2004, Bad Mojo's cult popularity has meant that XIDER Games is gearing up once more bring Roger's adventures to a whole new audience of the uninitiated. With its pleasantly simple yet effective control method, graphical touches gross enough to turn your stomach, and a total of four different endings to discover, there's plenty to see and do in the game - just as long as you don’t have an insect phobia.

Bad Mojo was given a warm reception by critics and gamers alike on both previous occasions, so we can't see why that would change again this time around. Indeed, it has been dubbed "the most original adventure game ever" and "best adventure game of 2004" by The New York Times and PC Gamer no less. And, as the old adage goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

That said, there's no reason not to add to the experience without meddling with the game's core elements, so XIDER Games' re-release will include a bonus DVD with a 'making of' documentary, looking in detail at the creation of perhaps the only videogame where the action is viewed solely from the perspective of a cockroach, (we'd be happy for you to prove us wrong!)

Bad Mojo goes on sale in the UK from June 08, and'll cost you a 'cheap as chips' £9.99 GBP, approximately the same amount as a round of drinks and a Big Eat bag of Walkers' Monster Munch. Although the difference between that and Bad Mojo is that you can be sure that, in the latter, bugs'll only appear in a virtual guise.