Wolfenstein 2, a first person shooter in which you can dual-wield shotguns to slaughter hundreds of robotic fascists in a secret Nazi facility suspended above the surface of Venus, is the most skilfully written game in years. More touching than The Last of Us, with more personalities than Mass Effect 2, and smarter, in many ways, than The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, this is an incredible narrative rollercoaster – one that’s beautiful, bloody and genuinely shocking from its opening sequence. By the time its credits roll you will not have just witnessed the unexpected; you will have seen things no other video game dare depict. The end result is a single-player campaign that stands sky high, both as a fantastic sequel to 2014’s The New Order, and as one of the best videogame stories ever told.

Fresh off the heels of its predecessor, The New Colossus sees series protagonist William ‘BJ’ Blazkowicz struggling to remain in the land of the living. Having sustained catastrophic injuries last time out, he is broken both mentally and physically, and has a consistently dour internal monologue that sees him lamenting his death and the effect it will have on his love, Anya. Anya is pregnant with twins and, understandably, BJ doesn’t quite fancy bringing two kids into a world ruled by Nazi overlords, let alone leaving Anya to do it alone. Something has to give. In true Wolfenstein fashion, that very quickly leads to a full-on uprising in the heart of this warped alternate-history America – one that delivers insane set piece moments, fabulous story twists and some poignant character interactions that ping you from utter devastation to laugh-out-loud smiles in a matter of seconds.