CD-Rom -- ''Chaos Island: The Lost World''

"Chaos Island: The Lost World" Microsoft/Dreamworks Interactive http://www.dreamworksgames.com/Games/chaosisland/index.html Windows 95, Windows NT $29.95

This one's pretty challenging, at least for this occasional gamer. You and your intrepid crew from "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" are supposed to save Chaos Island from the evil hunters who are trying to take it over.

This feature-packed CD-ROM includes pretty good graphics, and the voices of the actors in Steven Spielberg's second dinosaur thriller: Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Vince Vaughn, Vanessa Lee Chester, Richard Schiff and Richard Attenborough.

Hope they're getting royalties. The users deserve them for every time we have to hear "hey, that's custom."

The object is to build base camps (away from hunters and meat-eating dinosaurs), accumulate supplies and dinosaur eggs, hatch an army of your own dinosaurs to fight off the hunters, and control the ecological balance of the island using special DNA serum (we've sure come a long way since Pong).

There are 12 separate missions in this game, which includes three degrees of difficulty.

In the third mission, the intrepid explorers encounter the evil hunters, who are out to do them damage.

This reviewer has not solved the hunters yet, and a plan of attack is yet to materialize.

This is a tough game to crack, at least for the novice or occasional gamer, and will provide a lot of fun for dinosaur fans.