Gamespot praised the simulation of combat psychology, real-time gameplay and slick graphics.

"He felt you had to be willing to get in front of the world yourself and not stand behind some hired actor or slick graphics," said Stephen Perillo.

But until Thursday night, no political party had ever produced its own weekly television program, slick graphics and all.

With slick graphics, witty dialogue and a globe-hopping story, Dragon has a polish lacking in most modern adventure games.

Even when accompanied by slick graphics and interactive media, bigotry isn t pretty.

The upstart America Online is the "hot" service, offering slick graphics for its chat lines, forums and information services.

Ms. Morley leaves in her contradictions and loose ends, where a more "professional" approach to this material would probably try to obscure them behind slick graphics.

They had all the insider jargon, all the computing power, all the slick graphics, all the condescending rhetoric.

The new art-house audience is looking for more sensory films, with slick graphics, not as plot driven.

The slick graphics and interactive 3-D environments of computer games come easily to Mr. Klima after his video-game adolescence.