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Robert Di Niro is an amazingly versatile actor. He gained stones of weight to play Jake Lamotta in Raging Bull, grew his nails to an amazing length to play Louis Cifer in Angel Heart and went on a restaurant management course in order to open his own in New York. Well, like Rob, Codemasters' Seymour is showing his amazing versatility in a variety of roles roo and they'll all be available soon on the Superstar Seymour compilation.

Yes, Seymour's certainly the flavour of the month these days. He's got a traditional Codies/Dizzy style adventure (Wild West), an arcade platformer (Stuntman) and now an arcade maze game - Sergeant Seymour, also known as Robotcop.

Sergeant Seymour sees our fat friend in even smaller guise than we last saw him in Super Seymour, though his feet have increased in size totally disproportionately, the basic idea behind Sergeant Seymour is that he's a normal cop on the job, tasked with apprehending or killing a variety of escaped criminals with a gigantic extendible hand that's even bigger than his feet. It's just as well it's that big though 'coz the criminals - who vary from Pacman blobs to penguins, crabs and spacemen are fast moving and tough.

There will be five arrest zones in the game and a total of over fifty screens, with each screen representing an individual playing level. To get rid of an enemy, Seymour must grab him and fling him against a wall. Once destroyed, the criminals release various power-ups which make the game more interesting. These include a speed up, death rays and a 'police up' icon which turns Seymour into a real robot cop, complete with flashing light on his head.

Sergeant Seymour is a very simple game formula which looks rather dated in concept but is still a lot of fun to play. The levels will naturally get progressively more difficult and it looks reasonably addictive. Based on what we've seen already, this Superstar Compilation looks at though it's going to be a hit. Watch out for more news soon.