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After the success of Dracula, complete with certificate from the British Board of Censors preventing sale to under 15s, CRL have decided to try the same trick with that other hero of the black and white horror movie, Frankenstein.

Rod Pike, who wrote Dracula, is a man with a liking for chunky descriptions, and this latest game also shows a considerable improvement in the quality of the puzzles. Some of them are really quite easy to solve, but remain logical nevertheless. What's more, the parser and vocabulary seem to work well together and cope with most sensible entries.

There are some gruesome sound effects, together with some even more gruesome digitised pictures of blood and guts, as you sally forth into the mountains to do away with Frankenstein. This monster of your own creation who has murdered your sister and gone on to terrorise the neighbourhood.

I reckon that this game is marginally overpriced - £7.95 would have been a little nearer the mark than £8.95 - but as a three-parter with some tricky problems it's about par for the course.