Dark Void

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Dark Void

Not so much Dark as Crimson - if you catch our drift...

Words: Rob Taylor, Xbox World 360 UK

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Though the trailer hinted at demonic forces straight from the ninth level of hell, the actual adversaries appeared to be machine-gun-toting weirdoes donning lame masks. Gaze past the dull-looking scrapping and shooting though and Dark Void appears to have neat tricks up its sleeve.

First up is the rocket pack, which promises to give the otherwise laboured platforming a sloppy kiss of life - since our chappie is able to blast across yawning chasms, up vertical, dizzying heights, freefall from outer space and mosey along the outside of spaceships in a Zero-G environment. Gamers who suffer from vertigo might blanch, but we couldn’t get enough of the snazzy blur effects and the eerily realistic sensation of gravity - and the potential pitfalls one wrongly-timed boost could herald...

Then there are the vehicle bits, which recall some of the battles in Crimson Skies - with you piloting a futuristic bi-plane (if that doesn’t sound like the biggest contradiction-in-terms ever) and some bizarre UFO-meets-gyrocopter contraption in exhilarating dogfights. Fingers crossed, Airtight will pull both potentially excellent but disparate sections into an equally compulsive whole.