[peter noble]

This week's releases were a game of two halves for me.

I thought part five was the best of the series so far. The sacrifice of the crew of the Osiris was a great courageous moment and it was a good contrast with Kirby retreating from the fight.

I love the Wesel and her twin Gatling guns, which is strange because I think the Raptor is a lousy design. I was sorry to see her go but I thought the crash sequence animation wasn't up to snuff.

This brings me up to this week's gripe – the CG, some of it is really good, the whole atmospheric dogfight was really good but the crash of the Osiris and the aforementioned Weasel crash-landing were too cartoony. I also thought the greenscreen snow planet looked as artificial as the the planet that had the Gun On Ice Planet Zero in the classic series.

The only thing I can say about part six is that it was saved by John Pyper-Ferguson as the sergeant. It was just kind of 'meh!' At least the 'Cython' wasn't too ridiculous!

Part five 4.5, part six 2.5/5.