Despite a run of genuinely disappointing superhero games on the 360 (the not bad X-Men, the not good TMNT, the absolutely atrocious Superman) we've kept our hopes high for Peter Parker's web-flinging alter-ego. Spider-Man 2 was, after all, a great Xbox game, and the new film is set to be the most explosive yet...

Seeing as it's out already. Tsk.

It wasn't. It was fun for about 45 minutes... until everything went first-person. After that? Rubbish. Which raises the question: will there ever be a good game-movie?

Oh, and a double-sided disc packed with HD movies, trailers, new footage and blades to customise your 360. And a 196-page cheats book. And, as an added bonus, we've stuffed the third part of our exclusive AC interview into this post. Blimey.

Yep, as promised, we've gone and delivered the 'whoops, there goes his brains!' 55-second Darkness trailer right here, right now.

Oh, and the new issue's onsale tomorrow too. :) Just in case we forgot to mention that yesterday. Which we didn't.

Yep, in the very next issue of Xbox World 360 (repeat: onsale THIS WEDNESDAY!), we've blown the lid off Ubisoft's Hitman-vs-Prince of Persia stealth-o-thon. And once the lid's come off, you'll find stunning all-new pics AND the full, amazing story inside. Oh, and for the next three days, you'll find an exclusive indepth interview with the game's writing team only on this blog...

GTA IV-branded T-shirt, beer mats and window stickers: they're not available in shops, but could be yours with our blog-exclusive compo.

And, what do you know? It looked really rather good. Here's impressions straight from our mouths, via our keyboards, to your eyes...

We're excited about GTA IV, make no mistake about that. But the first raft of details from the US overnight has left us thinking aloud about a couple of things. Some good. Some not so good.