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Your task in this adventure is to track down an interplanetary criminal called Wing. To do this you must travel the galaxy searching for clues.

As with most of Activision's products, this disc based adventure is slick and well produced. The game is illustrated by use of multicolour pictures and text. The bottom four lines of the screen act as your prompt area and the text scrolls up behind the picture. By using RETURN you can look at the last 25 lines of text. The graphics and beautifully designed and use both colour and shading to good effect. Whilst the pictures are rapidly up loaded from the disc, they appear to be drawn rather than presented as a block of data - very neat. Unlike some other disc based games, the time spent accessing the disc is short.

The command parser is complex accepting a huge variety of command syntax and multi sentence commands. The function keys and abbreviations can be used to shorten entries. You can gain help from a passing Condor although it's thin on the ground. A superb touch in this package is the provision of a detailed tutor for the new adventurer. They are probably the best instructions I've come across.

The interesting aspect of this plot is that you gain clues by travelling to various planets. Your choice of route, however, is up to you. The main problem is to acquire money to buy fuel. You are offered 80 locations and the game is reasonable complex and testing. The price is a little high, but on the whole it's great fun.

A.W.