Mini-Review
Black Moon Chronicles
PC	From: Cryo

The sword and sorcery tactical wargame genre is pretty packed at the mo, with the likes of Warcraft II and Age of Empires, so any new games need something special to set them apart. Black Moon Chronicles provides this by giving you control of a single character, Wismerhill. Sure, you get to command, train and fight with huge armies, but if your little chap dies then it's game over. This adds a good role-playing element - do you risk your life at the front of the battle in order to get more experience points? The game has the usual elves, non-player-characters and suchlike, with a truly engrossing storyline. Drawbacks? The interfaces are rather unwieldy and the real-time combat system could be better, plus the random battles can be repetitive. Still, for epic battles in a role-playing vein, this is the cat's pyjamas.

FG verdict

86%

Mini-Review
Doctor Who: Destiny of the Doctors
PC	From: BBC

Doctor Who. Ahh, we all remember the wobbly sets, rather wooden acting, paper-thin plots and aliens that looked like they were homemade from wheely bins and bits of cardboard. Well, this shoddy appearance has been recreated in the game too - it looks messy and ugly. What's really unforgivable is the fact that it's soooo dull. At least the TV series had you genuinely excited as a kid. Anyway, you play a character called Graak and you have to explore the TARDIS and free the various incarnations of the Doctors. Walk round very slowly indeed, along identical-looking corridors, avoiding traps and bad guys. There are some amusing audio sounds and some encyclopaedias for die-hard Doctor Who fans, but this is an amateurish effort that really deserves to be lost in time.

FG verdict

18%

Traitor's Gate / MiG Alley