There's nothing too deep or life-encompassing about Space Siege. It is, like its goblin-bound forebear, Dungeon Siege, basically about the hack and slash. This time, however, the slash is done with an arm-mounted laser-swordfork thing, and the hack is, well, more like a blast.

Can you save the pockets of humans who remain alive? Just how easy it is to fight your way out of this mess will depend on how much of your humanity you're willing to give up to cybernetic upgrades. The more machine you become, the less of a normal person you're going to be at the end of it all. The Darth Vader conundrum, if you will. All this tricky decision-making will factor into the story - something that Gas Powered are keen to stress will make this Diablo-gone-shooty game all the more playable a second time around.

It's utterly accessible and remarkably fresh: those Gas Powered chaps sure do know their way around a videogame.​