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Amiga owners have been scrambling to become the first to purchase this - the first of a new wave of Sierra games helmed by the perennially popular Dynamix team. But they should be warned.

While Amiga owners get to enjoy just as many visual thrills and plot twists as their PC Pals, they pay the price of swapping ten (count every last one as it slips in and out of your drive for the umpteenth time) disks.

However, if you're willing to pay the access-time price, Rise Of The Dragon is an extremely rewarding product. The player takes the role of a futuristic detective, a real Marlowe type, slugging his way through a drug-addled city of sleaze, the last remaining obstacle between the mysterious Dragon and total control of the entire planet! Played in first person perspective, the game uses the no-typing-necessary control interface which Sierra have made their trademark.

This is another example of the interactive movie deal which American companies are so fond of forcing down our throats, but for once it isn't too bad. There is actually a story here! And there is actually some adventuring to do. The player must investigate the strange drug-related death of the Mayor's daughter, interrogate scummy criminals and do all the other stuff that private investigators have to do. Wire taps, opening other people's mail, hanging out in low-rent strip joints. What a life.

And it's all in those lovely hand-drawn graphics. Mind you... all those disks...!