RHS Interactive review from the Telegraph

Rocky Horror is back for a little cross-dressing mischief. Actually, says Steve Boxer, under the camp humour it's fairly conventional

THE Rocky Horror Picture Show made it acceptable for hairy-chested blokes to cake on the make-up and wriggle into suspenders, fishnets and high heels. It's hard to believe that this year sees the 25th anniversary of its appearance, although where it once seemed risqué, it has now become an institution with all the shock value of Dad's Army or AreYou Being Served?. But now is the time to prepare for an outbreak of Rocky Horror revivalism, triggered by thearrival in a couple of months of the Rocky Horror Show game.

The original gender-bending musical has been translated quite effectively to the PC, re-emerging as a point-and-click adventure game in which you can play either Brad or Janet and must rescue your partner in nerdiness from Frank 'n' Furter's mansion before it turns into a spaceship and flies off.

While it hardly represents the cutting edge of game design, it nevertheless looks great, is packed with gags and even contains some goodies for die-hard Rocky Horror fans, with new and rare versions of many of the songs, plus new digitised video footage of Richard O'Brien (playing the   Game Devil, a sort of cross-dressing help system) and Christopher Lee as the narrator.

The gameplay, it must be said, is about as conventional as you can get (mind you, underneath all the slap and   campness, The Rocky Horror Picture Show always was pretty conventional, really). You must wander from room to room, collecting items and using them inventively. It pays to avoid Frank 'n' Furter and his deviant cronies because if they accost you, they're likely to whip you off to their bedrooms for a spot of seduction (which, if you play Brad, causes your character to blush intensely) leaving you to hunt around for your clothes and thereby losing you precious time. There's also a jukebox in one of the rooms which allows you to select your favoured Rocky Horror music track.

Nevertheless, the film and stage show have withstood the march of time admirably (creator Richard O'Brien even manages somehow to look better than he did 25 years ago). The Rocky Horror Show game will undoubtedly look like a museum piece in even a few years, but that reflects the pace of forward movement in the games world more than anything. Even though it isn't radical enough to merit classic status, the Rocky Horror Show game is sufficiently well executed and amusing to add to the Rocky Horror   legend.

Dammit, Janet, it might even repair the damage that transvestism's public image sustained when Beckham misappropriated Posh Spice's sarong.