It’s competent remaster, giving a decade-old game a suitable level of spit-and-polish. While Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s campaign has been given a significant graphical overhaul, but its corridor-shooter structure and worn animation give its age away. Nostalgic fans of the series might get a kick, but the barebones remaster isn’t a fantastic value proposition for anybody else.

The Marauder is an absolute fiend, a natural obstacle to the Slayer's ability to push forward through hordes of the damned in DOOM Eternal and I hate him so damn much.

Look at your desktop. Look at it! Amidst all the clutter of random icons for games you’ll never play, images that need to be added to a dedicated folder and a Recycle Bin screaming to be emptied, there is a wallpaper that is older than your dad jokes. Heck, I bet it’s not even optimised for a proper 1920 x 1080 display, is it? Fret not, because the Critical Hit Extreme Desktop Makeover team is here to save the day!

Could Splinter Cell work as an open-world sandbox wherein Sam Fisher can ply his deadly trade? Absolutely, epsecially if Ubisoft looks at one other game that mastered the art of stealth, options and massive open areas to explore.

Resident Evil 3 Remake continues to the raise the bar of what it means to be a remake. It can feel rushed in places, but the sheer terror of Nemesis and the return to form of Jill Valentine makes it an experience you don’t want to miss. Just be sure to bring extra clean underwear along for the ride.

As long as there have been comic books, there have always been animated adaptations that have hit the small screen. You probably grew up on a few of them back in the day: If you’re old as sin, you may remember classic Jack Kirby art being reused in a weird way for various Marvel cartoons or that ancient Spider-Man series …

A personal and contemplative experience, Paper Beast could only be better if it were narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

What begins with a disaster ends with love, sandwiching in a meaty filling of guns, conspiracies and Wendigo testicles along the way in Borderlands 3: Guns, Love and Tentacles. Not a bad way to spend a weekend, when you’re officiating the union between beast and melee attack. I now pronounce you man and knife.

Japan is delivering a solid one-two jab in April, with Resident Evil 3 dropping a mere two solar cycles after a certain day of fools has come and gone, whereas Square Enix is going back to Midgar on April 10 with a remake of Final Fantasy VII.

Here at the Critical Hit Institute, we’ve got our top guys working around the clock to keep your brain-space occupied. We’ve gone deep into the Internet, sat through countless hours of entertainment and come up with a few recommendations for stuff that’s worth a binge or two. Here’s what the gang recommends is worth spending several days watching until you’re allowed outside again.

A spectacular floating fortress of of pain, an arsenal of wagons waiting to be unlocked and a home away from home, the Fortress of Doom may just be the ultimate headquarters ever conceived of in a video game. There’s plenty to do inside of it! From spending Sentinel batteries in the vaults that unlock new armour to grabbing a pair of well-hidden cheat codes, the Fortress of Doom even has a prison filled with captured demons that you can test out your new toys on.

Spawn isn’t just a great character in Mortal Kombat 11. He’s a loving translation of the cult classic comic book anti-hero, rendered in all his hellish glory and unleashed within the Netherrealm to bring demonic justice to foes and fans alike. Mortal Kombat 11 is ending its first year with a bang, giving fans a brawler whose ability to keep the competition at bay with an arsenal of anarchy that finally gives the devil his due. The best and most metal AF video game Spawn, bar none.