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Zodiac is Tansoft's first adventure for the Oric, and it's pretty good.

The game begins with you being unceremoniously dumped in an icy waste. You then have to seek out the twelve signs of the Zodiac, finding new locations and items of interest as you go.

The game seems to have quite a good vocabulary of allowed words and abbreviai ions, though I did find some of its responses a little on the terse side.

There are quite a few locations to wander around some of which are described in surprisingly fine detail.

Generally I found the game easy to play yet not easy to solve, which is a good combination - a game that won't let you out of the first room soon grows tedious. My only real complaint is that the sound, graphics and colour features of the Oric seemed a bit underused.

G.P.