Chili Con Carnage to spice up PSP

In a move that makes us wonder if one of Pocket Gamer's staff has been moonlighting writing punning titles for its publishing department, Eidos has announced Chili Con Carnage, an action game for PSP.

Sadly, the game is not set in a Mexican restaurant, and you don't play Gordon Ramirez, a fiery tempered chef who seeks to annihilate his ill-mannered customers innards-first with an arsenal of chili-based meals.

Rather, you're Ramiro Cruz, shooting your way through the sordid underworld of Los Toros and Cesar Morales' drug cartel in an effort to avenge the death of your father.

Which isn't half as original, but is possibly more commercially viable.

Still, what Chili Con Carnage loses in cookery-based innovation it gains in moustachioed mercenaries, megalomaniacal crime-lords and chemically tainted mutants, all standing between you and your goal of shooting the spicy stuff out of everyone.

There will be 19 missions spanning seven locations, from sprawling cities to dense jungle, and a multiplayer mode is promised too.

The game's developer, Deadline Games, previously created the rather hit-and-miss Hispanic-flavoured home console shooter Total Overdose, and Chili Con Carnage will presumably prove to be a spin-off, although there's no official link in the announcement.

"Eidos gave us the challenge to create the fastest and most gun crazy action game to be released on a handheld machine," said Chris Mottes, who runs Deadline Games and talks just like this in real life. "We have delivered Chili Con Carnage – a burning hot Mexican shooter with the biggest explosion frequency and the highest takedown rate you will ever experience on the PSP."

Which all sounds potentially very nice, especially if Deadline can work out the glitches of its previous game while somehow transferring the best of it – the effortless mayhem and humour – to PSP.

But we'd still like to see somebody serve us the PSP's first spice-em-up.