Superheroes are back in. After buying up most of the world's Y-fronts in the last few years and storming box offices with the likes of Sam Raimi at the reins, and making some quite defensible incursions into the world of console gaming too, now they've set their sights on the beige box under the desk - and thanks to the likes of City of Heroes and Freedom Force Vs The Third Reich, 2005 should be a bumper year for European gamers with superheroic ambitions.

About City of Heroes we know a great deal. But of Freedom Force Vs The Third Reich, sequel to an underrated pseudo-RPG that EA published ages ago before superheroes were even back in style, we know relatively little. Of course fundamentally we know it's slightly tongue-in-cheek, story-driven tactical role-player in which the titular Freedom Force journeys back in time to take on Blitzkrieg, defender of the Reich, and his homicidal henchmen, but otherwise we're relatively low on specifics. Naturally we couldn't let that stand, so upon a recent trip over the pond we tracked down Ken Levine, CEO of developer Irrational Games, and quizzed him about what's changed, what's best about the sequel, and rumours that EA rushed the first game to market. Read on, true believer.