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Interested in preserving our rich architectural heritage? Outraged by the property developers' mindless destruction of beautiful buildings? Keen on playing around in tunnels? Fed up with questions?

Then Driller Tanks may be the game for you. Not for me, but then I'm a bit of a vandal and I couldn't really care less whether the Summer Palace - a mixture of Taj Mahal and Brighton Pavilion - is undermined by the fire-breathing Marnmuts and their 'mindless cohorts', the Skorks.

The palace lies above a network of tunnels, where those Mammuts and Skorks live. The Mammuts are overgrown purple heads with enormous voracious mouths while the Skorks are crab-like things whose only wish in life is to fill in unblocked tunnels.

Which is where you come in. You control the Driller Tank. Your mission: to descend into the tunnels and destroy these evil creatures before they emerge.

Your tank has a whirling pointed nose to clear the tunnels and has an Ice- Cannon to stun the Mammuts before delivering the coup de grace by crushing them.

And that's about it. Down you go. Chug, chug, chug. Dig, dig, dig. Freeze, crush. Of course, it's not quite so easy because your tank moves much too slowly and, if you're using the keyboard, you'll find the controls unresponsive.

Driller Tanks is disappointing because it could easily have been so much better. It needed variety badly. As it is, the graphics are pretty enough but the sound is annoyingly repetitive.