DINOTOPIA: LIVING THE ADVENTURE

DINOTOPIA: LIVING THE ADVENTURE (Turner Interactive, CD-ROM for PC, $50) Artist-writer James Gurney's lavishly illustrated book series about an uncharted island where people and talking dinosaurs live in harmony is now a lavishly produced adventure game that combines Nintendo-ish scrolling graphics, live action, and realistic saurian puppetry. While a find-your-lost-sister story line provides the impetus to explore the island, the game's true appeal lies in lively characters, humor, and the island's day-to-day life (puzzles involve fixing primitive machines and forging metal). Although Dinotopia sometimes leaves the CD-ROM drive huffing and puffing to keep up, it is, after all, a whole new world. A