The world used to be a peaceful place. Then life formed and, from that moment on, everything spasmodically tried to kill everything else. This violence is depicted in four games on two disks, as Quattro Fighters puts you in the driving - er, flying, shooting and punching seats.

Not a great deal is known of these furtive fellows, except that, according to this game, they wander around in full view of an enemy encampment seen from a sort of high-up 3D. What you have to do is control one little man while he attempts to dodge the massive bullets that float towards him. You simultaneously have to deal much harm to those who fired them. It's not particularly good. It's actually slow and rather childish, in fact.

Like G-LOC without the LOC (or the G). You whizz along over a 3D scape, moving in the four joystick directions. Tanks, enemy planes and trees scroll rapidly towards you and you must avoid or shoot them. That's about it, really. It's fast, but it feels exactly like a computer program (and nothing like a real plane).

Climb into your last resting place and fly it over a massive enemy installation. This one's a top-down vertical shooter, which would be quite good fun if it (a) wasn't so difficult and (b) wasn't so slow. The slowness makes everything so tedious you might be better off using the disk as a makeshift beeswax container and jam-scraper.

Forget about helping people on the Underground. Instead, wander along a series of rather cartoony, urban-setting, punching folk. You are beset by dozens of sweaty men who cluster round and grunt. They also punch you as well, so you just punch them harder. Guardian Angel isn't up the classiness of some punching games, but it's probably the best thing on Quattro Fighters which isn't saying a lot.

Not very good at all, really. None of them, so it's not really worth spending your money. The only thing that compensates for putting all these terrible games together in one box is the fact that they work out at less than £2 each.

1. None of these games are really any good at all.
2. They have the potential to interest and amuse small (and extremely violent) children, but they lack the edge.
3. But at this price the feeling of getting value for money does increase.