Slowboat to Hades could be beautiful - and, of course, in places it is. The problem is that those places are so hard to find that by the time you've got there, you'll have lost the will to live.

Maybe it's just me. Maybe I really am too old for this but I just don't have the temperament or the patience to have to wrestle with navigation that's so unclear and incomprehensible that after an hour and a half of wrangling with the DVD player, the remote control and the TV set, I'd managed to find just 16 of the 41 tracks listed on the press release: 1-9, 12, 15, 16, 20, 26, 36 and 39 (I think - more on the problems of that later), if you really care. Some of those had come round three times, through different routes, usually while trying to escape from virtual rooms with names like The Hellhole. At least they're honest.

Let's look on the bright side. When the videos, animatics (storyboards, we called them in the old days), spoof MTV shows and live performances are playing they are of course stunningly beautiful, as Jamie Hewlett is a graphic artist par excellence. But they don't play for long enough before you have to go back into bad computer game graphics and navigate through treacle to find the next short helping of audiovisual pleasure, during which time you'll probably fall into an out-of-date ad for polyphonic ringtones or a video/animatic you've seen twice before, while missing half of the other things you're meant to be looking at.

Which really is a shame as in amongst all of this there are some real gems, such as the minimalist visual for Murdoc is God - a simple cross on a silent movie celluloid effect, which would (and no doubt does) look superb on a nightclub screen. Gorillaz' lardy drummer thinking about himself dressed in a ballet tutu while actually being dressed as Oliver Hardy.

And that makes it even more frustrating that there's more of this hidden beneath a ton of Easter eggs I can't be bothered to ferret out. Amid the apocalyptic skylines, floating bases and abandoned hideouts, it's just too much hard work. I want to enjoy the experience, not have to fight with it every four minutes before it gives me anything worth having. It's the audiovisual equivalent of dinner with a spoilt, petulant three-year-old.

If you're a Gorillaz uber-nerd, all of this may be manna from heaven. Maybe you know all about that rare Capsule Hotel Ident and you'll really enjoy the Japanese endurance test that finding it will take. If you're not, one of Slowboat's worst faults is that it doesn't tell you what anything is: where it came from, what you've watched - let alone where you might want to go next.

Guess what? The package also contains a CD-Rom containing 16 games, eight screensavers, 45 wallpapers (why does anyone need that many?) and "achievement based extras". If you make it to the end of this, you damn well deserve them. Or, alternately, you could think about getting a life.

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