• Dynamic Visual Acuity (the ability to clearly see moving objects)
• Momentary Vision (the ability to take in a large amount of information at once)
• Eye Movement (the ability to quickly move your eyes)
• Peripheral Vision (the ability to see a wide area)
• Hand-Eye Co-ordination (the ability to quickly and accurately react)

Individual results of this training may vary. In some cases, vision may not improve at all. This game helps you to train your visual abilities but will not improve the actual strength of your eyesight.

Fortunately, our hopes weren't high. To begin, the game asks you to complete an "eye age test", which consists of observing the letter "C" facing various directions, and report back to the software each direction.

The lowest age you can be given is 20, which you will get even if you guess one out of the thirty "C"'s incorrectly, as I did. Which would mean it's acceptable to lose one thirtieth of your visual ability, provided you do it when aged twenty.

Once you leave the "eye age" test, the remaining "core" tests consist of a fairly repetitive collection of memory-based games. For example, a series of random numbers of varied length will flash on the screen, and you have to recall what they were. You also get to do a similar exercise with letters. And with boxes, and circles, and a whole host of moving objects that wouldn't be out of place on the Atari 2600. It's not that these tests don't provide a modicum of challenge, it's just that they're not really very much fun. Certainly not after the third time. Another annoyance is that you can't seem to turn the instructions off anywhere, so you sit through them over and over again.

If you're prepared to follow the training to the letter, you'll be allowed to unlock various sub-games on a daily basis. These include basketball (which has the distinction of being the only basketball video game that has neither a basket, or a ball) table tennis, baseball, boxing etc. These sports based games are visually a lot more appealing than the core training previously mentioned, and will realistically be played a lot more. The best sub-game is probably the boxing, which requires you to tap the pointer at your trainers boxing pads as they move around the screen, with more points allocated for accuracy. With most of these games, it's not always clear whether your reaction time or your eyesight is actually being tested.

Up to four players can keep track of their daily results, presented in graph form as well as the aforementioned "eye age". It does seem however that any improvement in score is more likely to be caused by the experience of repetition rather than anything else. I'm not sure you'll be seeing any public service announcements encouraging you to master Sight Training as a way to better spot a bus that's about to run you down, for example.