Ed the puny ET drops a can and havoc ensues. While that sounds like nothing so much as a rehash of The Gods Must be Crazy, it is in fact the central premise of Ubi Soft's upcoming action-adventure game Tonic Trouble.

　　Responsible for antihero and lowly alien Ed is Michel Ancel, the force behind PlayStation game Rayman. And Ed's responsible for dropping the can that unleashes mutations on people, plants, and animals. Grogh the Hellish - a deadbeat drunk trying to be Master of the Earth - ends up with the can; Ed's got to rescue it, and he has to battle mutated monstrosities on the way - killer vegetables, mutant dinosaur-cows, and the like.

　　Ed chases the can through ten 3D environments, each split into several maps. Areas vary widely in theme, ranging from the standard Egyptian pyramids to the more unusual and potentially humorous glacier full of sangria and fruit. Players will encounter about 30 characters as they swim through sangria and climb pyramids, and there will of course be numerous secret levels, power-ups, and hopefully lots of humor.

　　Tonic Trouble is a 3D game set for release on the PC, DVD, and N64 this September.