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Tomb Raider with dragons - what a great idea for a game. And it works pretty damned well too. Okay, so it doesn't leave much room for originality, but who cares? The first time your character leaps onto the back of her pet dragon is exhilarating and it's not long before you're involved in some breathtaking dogfights with the nasty dragons. However, when you land you soon realise that Drakan becomes nothing more than an above-average Tomb Raider clone. It really does get rather repetitive as you fly to a dungeon, walk around in it, kill a few spiders or trolls, come out again, hop back onto your trusty mount and find the next dungeon. Repeat until fade. Or at least, repeat until you get really bored. The puzzles aren't big or clever and they're often frustrating, but at least when you get back outside you can have another go on the dragon. Tomb Raider didn't have a dragon.
This looks more like a labour of love than a serious commercial endeavour, with its dated graphics and nigh-on unusable interface. If Tactical Manager 2 were available as shareware, most of us would download it, fiddle around for half an hour, laugh and then uninstall it, while ignoring the author's plaintive plea for a couple of quid (to help with future updates, no doubt). To its credit, there are plenty of clubs to choose from - 1,050 in all, from 30 different leagues. That's around 30,000 players by our estimation. Ten out of ten for effort on that count, but sadly only one and a half for execution. Navigation is key in footy management sims, yet getting around this one is at best laborious. Quite why anyone would spend £25 on this tat, rather than fork out an extra fiver for the gorgeous Championship Manager 3, is beyond us.
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