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Edward is such a nice friendly name, don't you think? So it's very hard to treat anyone - or thing - called Edward as your deadly enemy.

But in Droids, there's no time for sentimentality about the Environmental Defence Warden which is controlling a new prototype space warship called Arachnid.

Contact has been lost with the ship following a massive solar flare. The Intergalactic Law Enforcement Agency (ILEA) fears that all transmitters and receivers on the ship have been destroyed. The fear is that Edward things the ship has been attacked and has switched to defence mode - meaning it will destroy anything within its range of its weapons.

And within 24 hours the planet Venus will come within range of Archnid's weapons and... need I say more? I bet you've already guessed the mission.

You've been teleported onto the top deck of the Arachnid, and must shut down each of the craft's decks by entering the correct codes into terminals.

Droids under Edward's direct control patrol the levels and must be destroyed before you can attempt to shut down a level.

Graphically, Droids is quite nice and the sound is quite pleasing, but the idea of the game is not particularly original. As far as we can remember this is the first game we've seen from Anglosoft and as a debut it's not bad.