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It has to be admitted that each game Ultimate brings out is rather special. This is, of course no exception and really has to 'be seen to be believed.

It isn't that the games are so original or that they are such good games and cry out to be played again and again.

This game is based upon the popular Knight Lore format and has you moving a small, cute robot in a 3D landscape which is the interior of the space ship. Your mission is to keep the human inhabitants alive during their cryogenic suspension, find and recover the thermolec valves and make sure that all the humans are alive and in the right condition to be able 10 land the ship.

To stop you there are a host of difficulties, including trap doors, plungers, egg shells, moving floorways and alien guards.

The games lack a little colour: in particular, it would be nice to have the varieties of nasty identified in some colour; however, this formula gives you the extra problem of having to identify the nasties before they get you.

The alien's speed of movement varies with the number of moving objects on the screen, but this doesn't detract from the enjoyment. I was a little disappointed about the instructions which leave rather too much to be discovered for my liking. Still a winner though.

J.B.