If you’re even a little interested in computer gaming you will have heard of Titanfall. This first-person shooter from Respawn Entertainment has guns and mechs and all the ingredients necessary for a great game. Best of all, it has jetpacks.

Titanfall is probably the most eagerly game title on any platform right now. If game review sites are anything to go by, this is going to be huge. As long as the game’s release isn’t as bumpy as that other online shooter Battlefield 4, things should go well.

There aren’t many games in which we would happily ignore being a huge gun-wielding mech over being plain infantry but Titanfall is one of them. The sheer joy of running and jumping, then using your jetpack to parkour in an urban landscape has its own pleasure. Throw fast shooting action into the mix and you’re in gaming heaven.

The varied environments provide different pacing to keep the games fresh and challenging. Running around outside, things are fast and frenetic as you navigate the environment in three dimensions while dodging bullets and explosions.

Head inside for slower moving room clearing and cat and mouse chases through rooms and corridors. Use a mech and things slow down further as you forego speed for power and support your infantry with big guns and bigger explosions.

Even on consoles, Titanfall looks fantastic. Everything is rendered in great detail, from grass and leaves to the neon signs in the cities. Bullets leave tracers, explosions look and sound real, and your body moves realistically as you leap from one rooftop to the next.

Titanfall is a challenging game with clever elements to force changes in tactics and prevent traditional camping of chokepoints so familiar in other shooters. Enemy holding the high ground and dug in? Call in your mech. They won’t camp then. They call their mechs to counter and everything is moving again.

This game is everything you want a shooter to be. The netcode works, at least in demo, the maps are varied and challenging, and the weapons are suitably meaty. We’re looking forward to this release like no other before it this year. See you on the battlefield.

Jesmond Darmanin is a technology enthusiast who has his own blog at www.itnewsblog.com.