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Fire And Forget II is the car racing game for you if you hate car racing games, because your car has a gun. The plot casts you as a stubbly-chinned troubleshooter of the if-anyone-makes-trouble-I-shoot-'em sort. It appears a group of terrorists is driving towards a city where an international peace conference is being held, with the express intention of slipping an inconvenient of slipping an inconvenient spanner into the diplomatic works by detonating a nuclear bomb.

You, in your unfashionable car, have to nip through the convoy, shooting the guards, until you reach the tanker carrying the bomb, then blow it up. OK, so the plot's been written by a flowerpot, but don't worry, it gets better.

Straight-as-a-die arcade game is a handy phrase that springs to mind. Smokingly fast, and bulging with furiously exciting action, Fire And Forget II is by far the most unthinkingly fun game you're likely to have come across for ages.

The road scrolls at a stupendous lick - there isn't much scenery, but the overwhelming number of enemy machines that come screaming along the tarmac or whistling out of the sky puts across the pulse-pounding idea of frightening speed incredibly well. And by crafty employment of a Chase HQ-like distance counter, Titus have ensured you have to keep the car at full speed just to have a chance of catching up with the tanker. The controls are a mite too eager, but a spot of practice puts you right.

Your machine is kitted out with a couple of handy extras - you have a few homing missiles on board, and at the prod of a key your car takes to the air like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with a six-millimetre cannon. Don't hesitate before you get Fire And Forget II! Faster than a jellyfish on a water slide and with more excitement to the square inch than a packet of Excito, the wonder thrill lozenge, it's an enormously playable, addictive and more than slightly great game. Buy it, put your brain in the drawer and enjoy yourself.

Fast moving, slam-bam action, slick graphics, great playability.

The appeal is likely to wane, but hey! That's a pure arcade game for you.