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After the poor efforts that went under the names of Live And Let Die, A View To A Kill and The Living Daylights, Domark's fourth attempt to transfer the Best Secret Agent Ever to the computer screen resulted in probably the best Bond game ever. Not only did it successfully capture the spirit of the film, it was also an enjoyable game to boot.

The first level sees Bond travelling by helicopter, trying to reach Sanchez (our bad guy) and stop his heroin-dealing ways. The second has Bond shooting it out with Sanchez's personal army, the third stage takes place back in the helicopter (only this time Bond's dangling below it) trying to ground Sanchez's plane, while the fourth sees him water-bound, desperately trying to reach the villainous Sanchez's plane before it reaches Cuba. Okay, so that takes care of the film's intro sequence.

The fifth and final level recreates the film's climax, where Bond finds himself driving the truck full of heroin. And although you don't get to drive on two wheels like Timothy Dalton does in the film, you still have to deal with a Stinger missile-armed Sanchez.

So what exactly happens between level four and five? Presumably it wasn't interesting enough to make into a game. I don't know myself, you could have had a shoot out in the fish factory or a punch-up in the bar - rent the film and see what you think. Still, what is there is great entertainment and well worth the new asking price.