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A top secret Stealth Bomber has disappeared. Its dopey pilot left the keys in the ignition and now the plane's winging its way towards the South American republic of Santa Paragua.

Operation Stealth is a James Bond-style graphic adventure filled with Cold War intrigude, exploding pens and scantily-clad women who fall madly in love with you - just like in real life, eh?

You play top CIA agent John Glames who's sent off to Santa Paragua to retrieve the missing bomber. Unfortunately, the KGB has a similar plan and the game turns into a race against time, with those darn Usskies trying to foil your plans every step of the way.

Operation Stealth was one of the first games to use a fully mouse-controlled point-and-click control system, and it shows. The gameplay isn't particularly intuitive and you can end up walking around in circles trying to get your character to perform a particular action.

The menu system's a bit fiddly as well - sometimes clicking with the left mouse button on a menu works, other times it's the right mouse button which does the job. However, once you've got used to these shortcomings, there's plenty here to reward you.

The game is filled with cryptic clues and puzzles as well as the odd unwelcome surprise - you're blamed for the murder in the park, for example. Graphically, Operation Stealth has a similar feel to many of US Gold's other graphic adventures like Indiana Jones and even shares many of their humorous elements. It all adds up to be an absorbing and involving adventure which soons gets its hooks into you.

Operation Stealth is a dated, but enjoyable, graphic adventure which plunges you into the shady world of Cold War espionage.

The point-and-click controls are a bit archaic, but otherwise this game measures up quite well to the more recent adventures like Fascination or Hook.

An absorbing graphic adventure with plenty of plot twists.

The point-and-click controls are a little unwieldy and the plot's too linear.