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This game, I seem to remember, was released quite a while ago by Dream Software. It now appears under the Mastertronic banner as part of their assault on the budget software market. Mastertronic have produced several adventures at a budget price, but none of them have been particularly original or imaginative.

The Quest For The Holy Grail claims to be Monty Python with chips! Unfortunately, the game doesn't live up to this tag. It attempts to emulate the Python team's humour, but I can't help feeling that John Cleese and co. would be embarrassed to be associated with this game. While it is a passable adventure, the Monty Python connection is very loose. Something I would like to see would be an *official* Monty Python game - that could be interesting!

Back to the game in hand. Your aim is to guide bold Sir Tappen through the medieval terrors in search of the legendary Holy Grail. The landscape is filled by several weird characters who do strange things. There is the three-headed knight who has a lot on his shouler and others with odd names such as NC, LC and SC. To be avoided at all costs is the rampant killer white rabbit, who literally has an explosive personality. All this is mildly amusing but never 'zany' as claimed on the cassette inlay. The text part of the adventure is quite enjoyable, humorous in places but, nothing remarkable.

The real problem with this game is its graphics. These really show the game's age, being square chunky block graphics with the occasional sparse line drawing. The graphics are really disappointing. Compared to these the graphics of Never Ending Story are positive masterpieces.

This game could have been so much more but, unfortunately at no point does the game live up to the inlay's promise that it is "...the computer game to surpass all others". It most definitely is not. It's more a very average game with touches of humour and outdated graphics.