In reviving a gaming franchise they created 15 years ago, developers Rebellion risk the same fate as that of the infamous Corporation in the films’ original story mythos: retrieving that deadly xenomorph from a deep space strewn with the debris of science fiction FPS wannabes is an invitation to get bitten on the backside. Happily, for the most part, the only biting done in this revival is by you – or rather you as said xenomorph, hurtling after hapless human fodder in rampaging Alien mode.

This is very much a case of buy-one-get-two-three, whether you choose to play as the Alien, employ the cruel, gadget-packed cunning of the ultimate galactic Predator, or just go all nostalgic by taking your life and pulse rifle in your hands as a good ol’ grunt of a Colonial Marine.