Jungle Book

Despite several tries, I could not get the optional voice-recognition feature to work on my PC, and one puzzle proved virtually insoluble. Still, exciting wide-screen scenarios and vibrant jungle backdrops produce just the kind of monkey business to tame little tigers.

Aimed at kiddywinks aged six to nine, Jungle Book is a slickly produced video-packed adventure game for Windows. Based on the recent live-action remake of Rudyard Kipling's classic, it features the best gimmick of the month: a voice recognition system. However, rather than offering simple commands to the computer, you instead have to use the micro-phone provided to speak to a chimpanzee. In chimp language. Never in my life have I felt so ridiculous, but kids will undoubtedly love it.