Darksiders

Once upon a time, many galaxies far, far away, games released after the Chrimbo rush used to be about as much fun as dipping your head into a bucket of freshly dropped HORSE MANURE.

The onset of a new decade brings EXCITING new times, however, and this biblical comic-book fighter is well worthy of your fingers' love.

Starring as one member of the four horsemen of the APOCALYPSE, you're tricked into triggering a war between Heaven and Hell, and end up having to stomp your way across an apocalyptic earth to right your wrongs.

Some of the hostile demon and angel types are absolutely HUGE and look truly astonishing; SLAP this through a 42" HD telly and you'll feel like a monster's just shoved its oversized head through the wall. And it plays well. One joker did try to tell us that the controls were sluggish, but they were quite wrong.

This is a very good action game. And as an added bonus for comic-book geeks, the visuals have been drawn by Joe Madureira, who did the Uncanny X-Men comics. We have no idea what that is.

***WIN FREE DARKSIDERS GAMES AND ACTION FIGURE!!!***

We've got several to give away. Simply tell us the name of one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, as referred to in the Book of Revelations.

Then ping your correct answer and details to us at chaps@maxim.co.uk, specifying DARKSIDERS in the subject head.

Winners will be picked at random. Entrants must be 18 years or over and live in the UK