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Time Lords is a strategy game for one to five players where each player takes the role of a time lord. The task is to outmanoeuvre the other time lords and ensure the race you represent becomes the dominant race in the universe.

To describe this game fully in the space of a review is virtually impossible as it is so involved and complex. Basically, you have to wander around the time zones in the universe laying traps for other time lords and engaging in battles to achieve overall supremacy. The best way to give an overall description is by saying it is akin to playing chess without knowing where your opponent's pieces are situated.

Time Lords comes with a twelve page instruction manual that I found real brain scrambling stuff and had me searching for the headache pills after twenty minutes study of it.

When played as a multi-player game Time Lords requires all other players to leave the room during one player's turn at the computer. I found this a bit of a drag to say the least and it's not something most of my friends took to either.

Graphics in the game are in mode 7 and consist of a scanner grid showing the position of the various planets and time zones in the universe. The only animation in the game is the arrival of the tardis to the accompaniment of those well-known grinding and screeching noises.

I would venture to say that strategy games are very much a minority interest judging by the reaction of the many computer game-playing friends I have. You either love 'em or you hate 'em.

Personally I find this game and others like it rather boring, but you may feel differently.

Peter Rochford