El-Fish

The Good
This game truly was a graphical marvel in it's day, and it still looks pretty incredible. The fish really do perform very life like, and swim realistically. It's fun to create aquariums with diving men and bubbling treasure chests. The math and programming that make this program work is pretty amazing. It is a really neat idea.

The Bad
There is not much to do here. It really isn't a game. It's not a design flaw, if you accept the program for what it is, a fish simulater, you will enjoy it much more. Another problem is some of the tools that they give you to import your own graphics, have many limitations and are clumsy to use. The last problem is that if you have a old machine (486) it take a bit to render a fish. If you don't have a math co-processor it will take a few hours.

The Bottom Line
Picture a truly beautiful fish tank simulator, that you can mate, mutate and catch fish for. You can decorate the tank, feed the fish, and develop background music. It's like a really nice screensaver, except you can't use it as one.