When you see a game from Simon & Schuster Interactive, you expect a reference title with an entertainment slant, or a Star Trek title, or perhaps a game for children. Last Call is a different animal that's half game and half reference CD. This bartending simulation is an interesting diversion, but fails to meet its potential in either of its halves.

The gaming veterans in the audience (and I'm really dating myself here) might remember an old game called Tapper. This classic was a simple arcade game tasking the player with a bartender serving beers across a series of bars. Each bar would fill with a group of patrons, and the bartender would rush between the bars, throwing a glass of beer to the customers before they got to the end of the bar. As each got his beer, he drank it and threw the empty glass back. The bartender had to grab the glass before it fell off the end and shattered.