DNA Interactive Bringing Popular BBC Series Merlin To iPhone In Early 2012

Despite the fact that games based on movies and TV shows are generally distinctly average, publisher DNA Interactive is bringing a spin-off of BBC series Merlin to the iPhone.

Merlin, the Game - as it's cleverly named - will be an episodic point-and-click adventure that thrusts you into the role of the young wizard himself. You'll be embarking on a quest to aid both Arthur and Guinever, but what that quest entails is yet to be revealed.

What we do know, however, is that you'll be doing a spot of puzzle solving and having a right good old chinwag.

This, of course, isn't the first iPhone game to be adapted from a popular BBC IP, with Doctor Who: The Mazes of Time and Torchwood: Web of Lies both arriving on the App Store earlier this year.

We just hope Merlin, the Game fares better than the Doctor's adventure, which earned a middling 3/5 at review.

Merlin, the Game will be available in the first quarter of 2012.