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In Survival Island you have to meet the challenges of a shipwreck and a desolate land and then explore the mysteries within a secret temple.

While sailing across uncharted waters searching for the ruins of a lost civilisation, a storm ravishes your vessel. The first part of the game is concerned with reaching the island. You start off with 99 life points. If they reach zero, you perish. The idea is to collect food and water as you drift towards the island on your raft, while avoiding sharks and sea creatures. They can knock you off the raft and if they touch you while you are in the water, you will perish. It is fairly difficult to identify something in the water, although you know something dangerous is looming nearby because of the threatening sound, but otherwise there is only a quiet, splashing noise. The sea monsters are quite frightening - and annoying! They always seemed to get me just as I was nearing the island shore. If this happens a slow, death march tune is played!

Your next task, once you have reached the island, is to find the secret temple. Beware of hidden traps, snakes and mushrooms to name just a few of the obstacles out to get you.

On your way, you must collect materials so that you can storm the temple.

This part of the game is a good adventure game and the computer will help you until the key to unlock the temple door is found. The graphics are much better compared to those in Part One of Survival Island.

The maze of the temple is divided into numerous sections. To progress from one section to another requires finding the key object for that section and then passing through the magically barred wall. There are many inconveniences to thwart outsiders from being able to map their way to the secret chamber within, for example, one-way walls.

Your overall performance is determined by the amount of time required to find the chamber and the number of life points you have left when you reach it.

A Starpath Supercharger is needed to play the game, but this results in better graphics, larger computer memory and faster loading time.

Survival Island is a very enjoyable game, although it takes many attempts to reach level three - but levels can be missed out if you have already found the right code. It has some nice touches, for example in part two you can become invisible and only your feet can be seen.

This game is really three games rolled into one - an action game, an adventure game and a maze game - so whichever you prefer you should be happy with Survival Island.