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This turned out to be a pleasant surprise - another Mastertronic cheapie that compares well with many of the expensive games that were churned out for Christmas.

Agent X loads in several parts, each piece of coding being a different stage in the game, and so the game manages to pack quite a lot into just £1.99's worth of cassette. The game starts with a furious car chase as Agent X sets off in hot pursuit of the kidnapped President. The graphics in this sequence are excellent - a large and nicely detailed 3D representation of a highway with various vehicles travelling in both directions and getting in the way.

The action is a bit chaotic, and getting through this section is more luck than judgement until you get the hang of it, but it's all so fast and furious that it's fun anyway.

The next sections of the game take you into the mad professor's lair, where you have to take on the security men (using an extremely silly-looking flying kick manoeuvre) and then into confrontation with the prof himself as he tries to brain you with anything that comes to hand.

It's all rather silly really, but the graphics are good, the game is nicely presented and the programmer's clearly kept his tongue well into his cheek, making this Mastertronic's best budget game for months.