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Oh good, he said through gritted teeth, another sporty waggle-your-joystick simulation.

The game centres around an olympic tournament-stle winter event. You have the option of practising in one of six disciplines or going in for a competition against four ST-controlled adversaries - and up to three friends if you want. You have to tackle each event with a different approach if you don't want to break your neck. The events to choose from include old faves like the downhill and bobsleigh, to more diverse variations such as the ski-jump and hotdogging. Each event has its own control methods which are pretty tricky to get used to, but after a few goes on the practice run, you begin to feel confident enough to take on the competition proper.

The graphics are surprisingly good and very fast indeed, comprising vector graphics for the bobsleigh and simple alternating strips for the downhill slope. They're most noticeable on the ski-jump, where you get a bird's eye view of the skier leaving the hut at the top and getting larger as he comes closer - extremely quickly, too - until you see him descending into a great crash landing.

The best touches are when you're on the bobsleigh you can see the driver's eyes, and when you fly over over the side they nearly pop out of his head in an amusing cartoon style. The sound is just as good with a range of different up-beat tracks which accompany the loading and option screens - and when you're skiing, the skis make a crispy skiing sound.

This is well put together with a fair amount of gameplay. It is just a skiing game though, so the novelty will wear off, but it's still an enjoyable little game.

1. Not a bad game. Some interesting graphics and racey tunes...
2. ...but it's just a skiing game and could soon get boring.