Power Rangers Light Speed Rescue has no more a plot than "take this!" and "hi-yah!" can sum up. It is meant solely to put young children where they want to be—on the screen, in the suit, amongst the action. Mission accomplished. They can don the colors of their favorite rangers and fight for good in Titanium Quest, or they can battle as one of several giant robots in Megazord Arena. There is a 2-player option in either mode, so a friend can join in and perform those trademark pseudo-martial arts moves along side them.

Titanium Quest is divided into three episodes. Each consists of several types of rescue missions in which the player(s) must complete tasks and defeat enemies. The first type of mission is Ranger Rescue, where they simply guide the rangers around on foot. Controls are about as simple as they come—directional movement, frontward attack, backward attack. On the screen there is a health bar, a clock, a number representing the amount of objectives left to complete, and a radar to guide them there. Then there is the Vehicle Rescue Mode. These are side-view games in which the screen scrolls forward automatically and the player(s) must move up and down to collect items and hit targets. Hover Jet Mode might be the most complex of the mission styles for younger children, as they will have to master basic flying controls—you know, up is down, down is up, bank left, bank right. It is also the one my son likes the most. Each episode, like the television program, then ends with a battle against some huge, nasty alien in the Megazord Arena.

The Megazord Arena is set up like a first-person fighter. The player(s) view the action from the cockpit, moving the giant robot around, attacking and dodging. There is nothing here to give you the illusion that you are actually a giant robot—no extreme perspectives, no physics, no stomping on buildings or flying through the air—just like I said, attacking and dodging. And in the 2-player mode the players go head to head, attacking and dodging until their thumbs cramp.

The game looks good, though the N64 is capable of much better. Imaginative level design certainly helps in the Ranger Rescue and Hover Jet Modes (there is virtually no level design to speak of in the other two). The colors are vivid, the graphics clear, the characters solid. Between levels the presentation is much like a comic book—still frames with captions, all with a certain smash! bang! boom! quality to them.

The sound is great, however, and will certainly captivate the kids with crunching impacts, popular catch phrases, and, of course, those cool "Go! Go! Power Rangers!" theme songs.

The game is kind enough to save each episode and allow players replay whichever missions they liked best, which is the key to replay value for younger kids. Unfortunately, it uses the N64 memory card, which you may have gotten along without so far. Even if you have one, unless you are a Turok fan you will probably have to go find the darn thing. I wish Nintendo would make up their minds and stick with one memory format.