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A week, they say, is a long time in politics. That week could be extremely fraught if you happen to be Jim Hacker, the Prime Minister in the BBC TV series. This game is based on Jim Hacker's incompetent antics, allowing you through role playing to be the Prime Minister for a week.

The action is a hotch-potch of strategy and icon-driven graphical adventure. You will be faced at intervals with a varied assortment of challenges.

The challenges are all political in nature, most coming in the form of conversations with a selection of parliamentary figures. You are given a multiple-choice selection of answers, some of which may look very obviously right, but you may be proved wrong.

You tend to stay within the confines of your office, awaiting phone calls and checking your ratings in the polls. When you do move to another location, the graphics vanish and a text-only format ensues.

The main problem with play though, is the subject matter. At times, it really can be deathly dull. Strictly for fans only.

The graphics are nice, especially the digitised photos of the various characters. No sound, apart from a couple of 'blips' here and there.

Overall 71%
Well implemented strategy/adventure/RPG sort of thing, marred by dull plot.