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Biggles. Ah, the memories. Those were the days when all the world's troubles could be sorted out with a stiff upper lip, a steely glint in the eye and a swift upper cut.

Well, now you can relive those days through Biggles: The Untold Story.

The plot of both film and game is as follows. Biggles and his chums are caught up in a race against time to find and destroy a new German secret, weapon which could alter the whole outcome of the First World War. But things are complicated because Biggles gets caught up in strange time warp which means he gets transported back and forth between 1917 and 1986.

The Biggles game is divided up into two sections - the Timewarp and the Sound Weapon. You can play the second part of the game without completing the first but it will be difficult.

But first the Time Warp. This is divided into three sections which you swap between as, in a flash of lightning, you move through time.

Biggles In The Air (1917): Here Biggles flies over enemy territory to locate and photograph the German Sound weapon. Enemy planes and artillery continually attack him.

Biggles On The Battlefield (1917): Armed with a gun and grenades, Biggles must battle past enemy positions to reach the weapon's test site.

Biggles In London (1986): Here the action is set on the rooftops of London.

The second part of the game, The Sound weapon, finds Biggles and Jim aboard a helicopter flying over enemy trenches.

The one disappointment about Biggles the game - at least in the first part - are the graphics. They're a bit chunky and basic.