After buying this yesterday and not ending up playing it, I just put this on for a quick go… and an hour and a half later I’ve had to force myself to stop playing so I can make dinner and deal with family emails and suchlike.

It’s huge amounts of fun. It looks absolutely fine to me and it plays brilliantly. Fast, intense and, yes, exciting.

Whether it will last is another matter – I’m guessing I’ll want to play it until I’ve S-ranked everything but it’ll end up disappearing into the “must finish sometime” pile once Crackdown arrives – but whether or not it lasts, I’ve had an amazing time with it so far.

Expectations smashed, and all that.

(I did, however, have to turn the music right down after going through the tutorials or go completely insane.)