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The bull-whipping, gun-toting, fedora-wearing archeology professor is back for his third adventure - in fact, he's been back for a couple of months by now, so the time is ripe for the computer tie-ins to appear.

US Gold was first off the mark with its limp-wristed 'action' game, but naturally George Lucas had to let his own software company get a crack of the whip - so here we have the 'adventure' game, in the style of Lucasfilm's previous puzzlers, Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken.

In this third film of the series, our hero discovers clues to the whereabouts of the Holy Grail contained in a diary kept by his father, Henry Jones. The trial leads him first to Venice and then on to Alexandretta, with Indy stopping only to rescue his father who's been kidnapped by the Nazis. And, by the way, it seems as though the world and his mother are looking for the grail too.

Now comes your chance to join Indy on his quest for the Grail, visiting many locations along the way - not all of which were shown on the silver screen.

This adventure's close tie-in to the film is apparent right from when you encounter your first problem: calming the mob of students who want to enrol in your class. And, although the rest of the game sticks just as closely to the movie's plot, it's been planned so that, although events don't always correspond with the film, all the puzzles could easily have come straight from it.

The most endearing features are the animated sequences which crop up throughout - Indy doesn't just crack his whip, he shakes it out and grits his teeth first. But the game's stylish presentation isn't confined to the graphics, the sounds are entertaining and informative and the streak of humour that runs throughout matches the film's tongue-in-cheek style.

My only gripe is that it's taken three films to finally do Indiana Jones justice in a computer game. Lucasfilm has done an excellent job here... but, then again, George Lucas probably wouldn't have had it any other way.