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The aim of this 'game' is to build up a face using the various shaped features you are allowed to select and then modify the face as you wish. I suppose this program could be used in schools as an introduction to observational skills or in the middle of a police project but after that I'm stumped as to what purpose it is meant to serve. To give the publishers their due, they do only claim that it is "an entertaining introduction to the computer for children aged 2-8". But surely there are other, more educational, introductory programs available - even for such young children?

The program is very easy to use, everything being menu-driven and using only two keys. An innovation is the movement routine which allows you to wiggle ears or nose, blink eyes, frown or smile but the interest of my five-year-old waned after only two faces. For the older ones however, there is a "Kim's game" option where you have to reconstruct a face from memory.

A strange 'educational' offering of dubious value.

D.C.