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Frankie Goes To Hollywood the game has finally arrived in the shops and, like everything linked with the group, seems set to race to the top of the charts.

Frankie Goes To Hollywood is an arcade adventure game in which the adventure element is the most dominant, though the graphics are of the excellent quality we have come to expect from Ocean.

The challenge that has been set you in the game is to become a "real person". You must progress through the game exploring and discovering to increase your personality rating - at 99% you have completed the game and attained personal perfection.

Objects like power pills, videos, security passes and floppy discs must be collected and used to their best advantage in the game. There are 60 different tasks to be completed, ranging from the relatively simple to extremely involved and complicated tests. Once these have been completed, you then go in search of the Door to the Ultimate Experience - the Pleasure Dome.

You can carry up to eight objects at the same time and can check your inventory by pushing your joystick downwards. If you want to use any of the items in the inventory, you just have to move the cursor icon to point at it, and then just press the fire button.

One of the most important mysteries that you must solve during the game is a murder. Once you have found the body, you must progress through the game and collect the 23 clues which will point to the identity of the killer.

The game also includes ten screens of original arcade sequences which are hidden throughout the game. They include the War Room, Raid over Merseyside and Cybernetic Breakout, each of which are similar to the arcade sections in some of Mikro-Gen's more recent programs.

The icon-driven displays, the fantastic backing music, the depth of play and the stunningly lifelike graphics all add up to what must be Ocean's best game for the C64 to date.

Even if you hated all of Frankie's records, you'll love this game.

Bound to be one of the all time classics on the C64.