In the ideal world, the perfect prison-break ga⛎me would involve a high-security slammer solely for highly dangerous rogue Christina Aguilera clones, Britney as the butch-yet-golden-hearted warden, and enforced communal showers. It would be a game where you ♈broke into prison, naturally.

The Chronicles Of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay is, however, l🐻ike most prison games, a game about breaking out of prison. It's also the prequel to Vin Diesel flick Pitch Black and sequel, The Chronicles Of Riddick.

And while there are no Christina clones in it, it does mꦫanage to deliver the next-best thing: a first-person shooter, set in space and full of guns, violence and swearing.

What Riddick isn't, however, is a basic movie tie-in. Other than the characters and certain storyline aspects, Escape From Butcher Bay has not𝓡hing to do with last summer's big Riddick film at all. Instead, it's one of the year's boldest, most unique and expertly designed titles.

So what makes Riddick s💯o special? Apart from getting to 'be' Vin Diesel, that is.

One: It looks glorious. This is the sound of your Xbox g🌳oing full-tilt to pump out the kind of shiny graphics and special effects that were 🐽supposed to debut in next-generation titles such as Doom 3, Half-Life 2 and Halo 2.

Two: Riddick goes so far beyond being a standard first-person shooter it makes us a little꧒ giddy.

Three: Riddick is a brutally nasty game.

Four: Butcher Bay is an incredible fea🥂t of design. We've never been to the most notorious prison in the galaxy, but if we had we imagine it would look like this.

And five: At the climax of the game you get to pilot a really big suit of robotic armour with two giant guns strapped to eith♏er side.

Clever stuff then. But there are occasions when Riddick is perhaps a little too clever for its own good. Running aroun꧒d, solving puzzles, sneaking about: yes, w♛e know you're a cut above the average, but don't forget the visceral, bullet-pumping element altogether, okay?

There's also a huge, gaping multiplayer-shaped hole running right through the middꦰle.

The only other fly in Riddick's surgical bruise ointment is its le🥂ngth. Or lack of it.

Our advice: keep your noseಞ dirty, stay in trouble and you'll be back within its shoddy brown walls quicker than it takes to drop the soap in a crowded shower full of angry sex offenders. More than that, you'll enjoy𝕴 it.