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Welcome to Vegapolis. A Mecca to hard men in search of a new challenge. Why? Because a new leisure complex has opened in town and it contains a game so deadly the crowds flock to it just to get covered in gore. Sounds good, doesn't it?

If you're expecting a mind-blowing shoot-'em-up or a blood and guts platformer, then prepare to be disappointed. Titan is a puzzle game. The object of the game is to ricochet a power sphere against a series of blocks, causing them to disintegrate. Yup, you guessed it, it's a posh Breakout game.

Things aren't quite that simple, however. There are various obstacles which prevent your controller (bat) or your sphere from reaching their objectives. These obstacles range from moving blocks to skulls which kill you immediately as soon as you touch them. On some levels you are helped by the presence of a series of energisers which enable your controller to swap places with the sphere, making movement around the level easier.

The game can be controlled with either the keyboard or the joystick. Scrolling is smooth but, unfortunately, you can only see a small portion of a level on-screen at any one time. This invariably means that the ball tends to do most of its bouncing off-screen, so you just end up sitting there motionless, your eyes glazed over with the tedium of it all. The graphics are average for this kind of thing - in fact, they're crap - and all seem to be a particularly yukky shade of brown. The sound is also really horrible, it's like the sort of noise you get from malfunctioning strip lights in dodgy lifts.

Titan achieves the rare distinction of making another Breakout-style game, Bunny Bricks, look absolutely marvellous. Still, at least Titan's on a budget label, eh?

This is the kind of game to whack on your ST when your kid brother keeps on bugging you 'cos he wants to play something, that's if you're silly enough to buy it in the first place.

It's a puzzle game, ho ho.

Very boring with a couple of yawns thrown in.