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Erm, so there’s only three “chapters”? Oh well. The last one started off in some sort of snowy wasteland, then moved underground to the Lost City of Atlantis, then moved through some caves, some strange gravity-warping temples, and finally into an alien spaceship. I can see, actually, that Prey nicked a few ideas from this game too, with the wall-walking and stuff. The last few levels were pretty difficult, as health pickups became fewer and baddies increased in number (and …

There’s a pattern emerging in this game. Collect the item with the big yellow arrow above it, and you get attacked by a million baddies all at once. Anyway. I managed to get through all of Rome, killing a huge thing with loads of arms, and then moved on to China. I wasn’t aware that much of China was actually in the desert, but that’s where most of this level has taken place so far. The baddies are much the …

I have about ten million known good games as-yet unstarted sitting on my shelf. Things like Metroid Prime: Echoes and Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. I even got Fahrenheit cheaply this morning. So what did I decided to pick up and play today? Well, this obviously. Graphically, it’s nothing special. Originality is out the window. The puzzles are few and simple, and there’s nothing much to recommend it. However, there’s lots to shoot and the dialogue is genuinely funny. Best …