To succeed, a role-playing game must convince you that you're there, that it's you bolding going and generally swashbuckling. If it fails in this respect, it can fail completely.

Death Satellite sails near to the wind but gets away with it. It's not that the game is boring, it's just the vocabulary seems to be very limited. It would have been nice if HELP could have suggested a few words to get me started. I also found the interpreter a bit on the pedantic side.

This apart, the game poses some challenging problems in an interesting scenario. The response time was fast - no handing about waiting for responses.

To summarise, the game is awkward to start with but becomes quite absorbing once you know enough of the vocabulary to do things. With a little more work, this could become a very good adventure.

G.P.