While there is an aspect of morality it's pretty underplayed, with most of your decisions having little or no effect on the outcome of your journey. There is the occasional decision which can come back to haunt/help you - leave the bandit alive and he might come to your rescue later, for example - but for the most part it's just killing your way one location after another.

There's a pretty good plot, a tense gameplay style and all the sound effects AvP fans have come to expect - it's just nothing really new, it's all been done before - the game feels like the last two games in a new skin, with slightly tidier graphics and a certain amount of attention to detail. And that is probably both good and bad in equal measure.

Our hero, Dante, has messed up. As a soldier in the Crusades he was called up to purify the 'heretics' who had the gumption to believe something other than Christianity -a simple task for a man like him - but he never bargained on Beatrice. Dante's lover, and a suspicious maiden to be sure, Beatrice made a deal with Lucifer - If Dante remained true to her on his mission the devil would bring him back alive, but if he got a little frisky with some slave girl the devil could have Beatrice's soul, forever.

As well as the battle inside Rapture, the game also makes great use of your Big Daddy-issue diving suit, with several sections set outside on the sea floor or inside ruptured sections of the city. These moments, while a break from the action, are eerily tranquil (despite the bodies drifting past you), and offer another angle of Andrew Ryan's creation. The graphics and sound have had an overhaul for this new journey under the sea, showing the grime of the decomposing corpse of the city in all its brutal glory.

Putting you back in the environment boots of Commander Shepherd, Mass Effect 2 picks up shortly after the events of the first game, but while you can start again with a new Commander Shepherd, gamers who graced the halls of the Normandy in the previous instalment will probably want to import that save file into this game, warts and all.