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I have to apologize, folks, for the extremely late review of this one.

Jackie is ready to use his dark powers and annihilate his enemies in all sorts of nasty and brutal ways.

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It's true. This is as violent and bloody as it gets. But is it any good?

Make no mistake, this is a challenging game. Using Jackie's powers feels good and the execution moves are cool. In time, however, you are likely to get tired of that, because that's mostly what the game is about. You basically go from one shooting rampage to another (as you dismember and dissect foes at will), while occasionally going through boring semi-interactive cut-scenes and linear shoot-outs (oh and random boss fights were thrown in for good measure).

Read our review of The Darkness 2 (PC).

During this year's GDC Crytek's Nick Button-Brown has mentioned to CVG that they are currently working on a brand new project, which he promised to be their best work yet.

When asked more about this he stated: "The other project looks absolutely fantastic - I mean, genuinely the best of that kind of project we've ever done. It looks spectacular, the team are doing really, really well and it's just really nice to see the team really enthusiastic about what they're doing. They're really happy."

Wow, that's great. But they could've at least given us something a bit more concrete. Oh well, it's time to play the waiting game I guess. The important thing you should know that an official announcement is set for April 2012 and that this is going to be a console/PC game (so, no platform-exclusives, it seems).

Gamers in the United Kingdom have been buying Mass Effect 3 like crazy, in addition to SSX and Street Fighter X Tekken. Check out the UK game sales chart for the week ending on March 10:

1. MASS EFFECT 3
2. SSX
3. STREET FIGHTER X TEKKEN
4. FIFA 12
5. MARIO PARTY 9
6. THE SIMS 3: SHOWTIME
7. MARIO & SONIC LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES
8. CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 3
9. ASSASSIN'S CREED: REVELATIONS
10. ZUMBA FITNESS
11. RAYMAN ORIGINS
12. BATTLEFIELD 3
13. THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM
14. JUST DANCE 3
15. UNIT 13
16. UNCHARTED: GOLDEN ABYSS
17. UFC UNDISPUTED 3
18. BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY
19. SAINTS ROW: THE THIRD
20. RAGE

Now it's time to check out the top-selling games on Steam:

1. Borderlands Game of the Year Edition
2. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
3. The Sims 3
4. Saints Row: The Third
5. Payday: The Heist
6. BioShock 2
7. Football Manager 2012
8. Sid Meier's Civilization V Game of the Year Edition
9. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
10. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

An unexpected twist.

AT COMIC: Reaper Matrimony

Holy crap, tits and balls! The new Silent Hill game is already here. And I'm not talking about any 'HD' collection bullshit either, but a new proper release. That's right, Silent Hill: Downpour has arrived to AT, so expect our review pretty soon.

Man, it's been ages since I played a decent horror game - hm, Amnesia being the only one I can think of at the moment.