What a title - pity about the game! The Waster is a new Adventure from Harddata who package it with a poor quality inlay. I hope this will be reflected in the price.

The game puts you in the role of a CIA agent, code-named Waster. You are the CIA's top assassin and, because of this dubious honour, you are about to be sent on a mission to Africa to kill a right-wing dictator. The night before setting out on this mission, you dream about your wife, the Vietnam war and many other things that CIA agents supposedly dream about!

In fact, the first part of the adventure is to escape from your nightmares to that you can get to Africa to kill Pasoa, the dictator. The second part takes place in his palace where you must kill him.

The game is very slow to respond and even more annoying is the fact that it has a minute vocabulary and that the locations are random.

The vocabularly consists of ten single-letter commands which is an indication that the game lacks depth and imagination. After all, how can you try different ways to kill a guard, for example, if the only killing commands is A for Attack?

The game loads in two parts - first the nightmare scene and then the assassination scene, giving the buyer over 80K of adventure. But with an adventure as poor as this, it hardly matters how much memory it takes up. As the saying goes, quality not quantity is what counts. Sorry to say it, but this is the worst so-called adventure I have ever seen!

The Waster is from Harddata for the 48K Spectrum.