Another title from the Eastern school of survival, Cryostasis pits players in a battle against a mysterious undead force, and the cold.  It's an exciting prospect, not least due to the recent release of a whole host of astonishing screenshots.

Just look at it!  Then look on the official website, 'cause these ones are a bit small.  Visually, if these pre-release shots are anything to go by, it's far beyond what any other title has managed to achieve.  That alone is enough to get us salivating.

But, of course, the meat of Cryostasis is what keeps us interested.  The game is founded on two distinct facets of gameplay.  The first is survival, which includes staying out of the freezing cold for any extended period of time.  The second is the particularly intriguing necessity to tap into the history of the game's various characters and, using the power of Mental Echo, changing their past actions in order to alter the present.

Cryostasis takes place in 1968, onboard an old nuclear ice-breaker ship that, despite its purpose, managed to get stuck in the ice some years ago.  The game drops players into the role of meteorologist Alexander Nesterov, and tells the grizzly tale of what happened to the ship's captain and his crew.

On the surface, Cryostasis looks a little bit like a standard first-person shooter, but the Eastern school of videogames development tends to incorporate more depth than that.  Games from Russia and its surrounding area also tend to come equipped with a hefty dose of dark, foreboding atmosphere - from the looks of it, Cryostasis will absolutely excel in this area.  We can't wait to get lost in the cold and the dark.