What makes Broken World a hard-core jungle-gym isn't just jacked up monsters, but the added complexity of tactical combat. In other words, you won't be fighting on auto-pilot. Instead, you'll be figuring out how to defeat some extremely devious boss-monsters. For example, we went up against a pus-♛spewing demon whose minions made it impossible to cope unless we dealt with them early and often.

Both the sequel and the expansion are runni🦩ng on the same game technology that drovethe original. While this gives all three games a sense of continuity, the team has had to work hard to wring every last drop of performance and keep the visuals fresh. Although it looks like a close cousin of the first game, the expansion aims for a sharper edge, packing in plenty of blood and gore. Perhaps the biggest complaint we had with the original was the cheesy dialogue -which should hopefullychucked, thanks to the entirely new voice cast for the expansion.

All in all, we think this fast-action add-on is coming together nicely for a 15-hour wrap-up to the series. Broken World ships at the end of summer, in August.