Before long you're going to find yourself knee-deep in bodies, drugs, hookers and piles of dirty cash, chased by a brutal Shanghai drug lord and once again on the run from the police. All in a day's work for gaming's grittiest anti-heroes.

The story picks up four years after the end of StarCraft: Brood War, and centres around the life and times of Jim Raynor - galactic outlaw, revolutionary and all around badass. So badass in fact that he has his own twangy musical accompaniment, and is almost always sat in a pool of shadows - he's that sort of guy.

This little shooter is pretty good for its price tag. Springing from the minds of Ignition Entertainment's development crew, the game plays like a cross between Call of Duty's intense multiplayer action and Splinter Cell's gadgets and gizmos, and is well worth a little time and money.

There's no Megan Fox. Not one bit of Megan Fox. Now that sad fact is out of the way, let's talk about Transformers: War for Cybertron, a surprisingly good adaptation of the long-running and thoroughly confusing Transformers series.

Set sometime between The Sands of Time and Warrior Within, Forgotten Sands sees the Prince visiting his brother for a little warrior training and instruction in the art of war. Picking up with a scene eerily reminiscent of Sands of Time - the Prince sneaking into a fortress under siege - and things quickly go to Hell. The Prince's reckless brother unleashes an accursed army, leaving the Prince to put the demons back in their box.