Shakespeare in Space?

The University of Ontario have developed a video game to get children hooked on Shakespeare.

While zapping enemy spaceships players have to help recover the stolen text of Romeo and Juliet by memorizing lines from the famous play, learning facts about Shakespeare's life and devising synonyms and homonyms for parts of the text.

Hmm. It doesn't sound very engaging to me, but it would be interesting to see it in action.