So why have Rebellion, respected developers of the more than respectable Alien vs. Nothing in the history of videogames, or indeed in the history of anything, ever, says this is a good idea and it's going to work.

So when a port from a Playstation game, which also happens to be a film license comes along, it should, by all the laws of common sense, be an absolute disaster. It applies to computer games as well decent Playstation ports come once every century and good film license conversions are so rare, they're a protected species. Things like mint-flavoured peas, ying-yang shaped coffee tables, or a toothbrush that doubles as an earwax remover.

There are some things in this world which are doomed to failure before they were even dreamt of by some mad inventor in his squalid laboratory.