Valfaris - JOHN BLANCHE FOREVER

Slain: Back From Hell developers Steel Mantis are back, this time exploring the far-flung, alien infested future of Valfaris. This platform-stomper blasts players into a hostile pit filled with blubbery nasties and their bio-mechanical masters. The all-consuming grim and dark brings to mind the pox-crusted futurism of John Blanche, the detail obsessed Warhammer 40,000 illustrator who rendered Games Workshop's most valuable property as an extinction war between various factions of steaming, techno-organic disease.