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Beeb adventurers all know and love Robico games, and now their latest is here - the first with graphics.

The Hunt: Search For Shauna involves you, the pilot of a space craft, in the hunt for crewmember Shauna, who has been kidnapped.

Your first task is to escape from the spaceship - no great shakes, as it tells you how in the instructions. Once you have sneaked through Customs, you can explore the space station and start searching.

No Klingons on the starboard bow, although there are a load of tame robots who trundle around carrying things, and generally doing little else.

There is also a maze (heigh ho, here we go again) and some weird humour - like the area marked "Berth Control". Now if I could just get in there...

In the space taxi, you can go and visit other people's spaceships - you do remember where you parked yours? - but you need a code before you can do so. Spoilsports!

The graphics look as if they have been done on the GAC, although this is not mentioned. The tape version has graphics in every location, and the disk version loads up better graphics in about twenty of them. Some are rather nice, even if not up to Amiga standards. There are clues in the pictures.

The adventure has about 100 locations, and uses a full sentence input system - but you can only input one sentence per command. As usual, there are a few vocab problems but for disk users in trouble, *LOAD HUNT2 views memory from &5100 onwards.

The HELP command just tells you not to be lazy - well thanks a bunch, guys! Currently I am having problems negotiating the maze - maybe I should draw a map from once in my life? Opening a door with a plate on it is also a problem, and, of course, getting past the obligatory zapper which kills you if you try to pass is just impossible at the moment.

You may have guessed by now that I like this game. Nice graphics, good text, logical puzzles, no sound (shame!) and a good plot. But why did they have to use a disk box that disintegrates when the Post Office gets at it?