“Apart from the camera, WinBack 2: Project Poseidon is consistently entertaining, with the combat mechanics and movement smooth and satisfying, but in general it’s also rather lacklustre, full of flaws that are too glaring to ignore when considering a recommendation. Some aspects are incredibly polished and fun, but others are terrifically broken, and while there’s a real sense that it could have earned a lot more than a five, overall it doesn’t.”

I spend rather a lot of time bitching about the horrible camera (unfortunately a feature of most Cave games) but it was just one of many flaws in Winback, which is a fairly interesting game to talk about right now, because it used a quite sophisticated cover system, similar in some ways to the current trend seen in Gears of War and Rainbow Six: Vegas (though to my memory, without blind fire.) However, the game was generally just not exciting enough to be noticed, so wasn’t really all that groundbreaking. And with cover systems and stealth action done so much better elsewhere, there’s little to recommend Winback 2, in the end.