Writing in Newbytes, Denise Caruso raises a very well-plucked eyebrow to the news that a new adventure game from Activision subsidiary InfoCom, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Plundered Hearts, has won an overwhelminingly favourable response from predominantly male testers: the game is vintage Mills & Boon, with the female protagonist sailing to the West Indies to care for the archetypical ailing father and encountering, among crocodiles and other travails, an attack by pirates who plan a fate worse than death for her, although she does fall for the handsome pirate captain, Nicholas Jamison, tall and lean with azure eyes that penetrate deep into your soul – of course men like it, because an adventure game enables you to cause all the things you want to happen so you can make it turn out not at all the way Mills & Boon would have it.
