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Hands up all those who liked Operation Wolf. I thought as much, loads of you. Is that because you're all sicko, mentally perverse war-mongering psychos with murderous intent? Yep, me too. In which case you may find this title of interest.

Your role in this game is to control a team of stealthy commandos whose mission is to battle their way through three levels of frantic military mayhem and obliterate the hostile forces and obstacles in your path. You've got to survive to the end in order to destroy the super tank at the end.

The backdrops scroll smoothly from right to left over which appear a variety of adversaries; foot soldiers close up and distant, armoured cars, planes (which are smaller than everything else for some reason we can't figure out) and attack boats on the jungle scenes.

In order to dispose of these beastly chaps, you have for your own personal use a machine gun and a smattering of grenades. To let fly with these wonderful toys, position the on-screen crosshair over the blighter you want to waste and press either fire for bullets or the space bar for grenades and keep blasting until there's nothing left.

Occasionally, a small parachute descends, bearing gifts such as extra bullets, grenades, first aid, gold, frankincense and myrrh [I'm not convinced about the last three! - Ed].If you have any intention of staying alive these should be collected at every available opportunity. You get enough bonuses to keep you going but, later on, you're usually down to your last round of ammo before it turns up. Nail biting stuff, eh?

Operation Hanoi is by no means spectacular. The graphics, while competent, are nothing to write home about but the game is very playable overall. Although there are only three levels, the difficulty more than compensates for the absence of more murder zones - without being annoying in itself. At budget price, Operation Hanoi has got to be worth a look at the very least.

How delightful, when I put this little pointer over those little men they start waving at you and then fall over with glee. I really can't understand why people complain about violence in games so much. This one also gets 100%.

N.B. Oh lordy, take 40% off Edith's rating, please. The truth is that this one's worth 60%.