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Weird. When it arrived, I thought this was going to be a game about volcanoes and dinosaurs, but I was wrong. It's about golf instead. The idea is simple. You play golf. You can either play on your own, you can pay another human or you can take on some famous people and lose.

Each hole is seen is glorious 3D and takes an age to draw. You appear, and a data box gives you a load of info on the hole (how deep it is, how circular and whether there's any water at the bottom).

You swing away wildly and watch as the ball sails off into the blue sky. It's a bit slow, but it's well animated. Then, if you're on the green, you putt, the ball goes in and you pocket a cheque for 200,000.

It's an excellent golf game, is this. You get to do everything you could want (except whizz around in those excellent golf carts) and the game is refreshingly playable.

You'd think that it would be crippled by a multi-load from hell, wouldn't you? Well, crippled isn't the word. Partially handicapped would be more like it. You don't have to wait for ages, but you do have to wait. Still, golf isn't the fastest game in the world anyway.

Yep. I like JNG18HOMCG. It's better than having to eat the skin off the top of your cocoa anyway. And have you seen the price of green-fees today? Shocking. I'd write to my MP but he doesn't have a Freepost address.