And yet… while, for our money, Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay still wins in the first-person scrapping department - possessing just that bit more guile than this slap-fest - there’s something truly satisfying about wrenching a pipe from the wall before laying some serious smack down with it - or, even better, clobbering some poor mug across the head with a brick.

Anyway, one downed tramp later, we busted out of the claustrophobic flats only for the sound of shouting and gunfire to set our already shredded nerves further a-jangle. Turns out we’ve stumbled straight into the midst of a local gang ruckus, and failing to lay our hands on a pistol hidden in a nearby dumpster results in us getting our bearded faces blown clean off in double quick time.

One reload later and we’re back in the thick of it, taking names and busting kneecaps with a shottie. One caveat though: being able to fire away with a side arm in Condemned 2 is a rarity indeed; Monolith are well aware it’s the focus on brutal, confusing close-quarters combat that lends Bloodshot a truly menacing air.

So, while the combat’s perhaps not quite as perfect as Riddick’s, Condemned 2 is nevertheless a sharp and visceral scare sim. The foreboding lightning, the pitch black shadows, the dingy environments, the lurking horrors - if you likes your scares thick and fast and your plasma thick and gloopy you won’t go wrong.