Okay, I’m late to the mad monster party thanks to such a massive games backlog that I won’t be seeing some of the bigger titles I downloaded last year until late this year (or next year!), which is pretty sad. But I understand quite a lot of people have this problem thanks to too many bundle sales and low prices on single games that are way too hard to pass up.

Anyway, I bumped up the demo to The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing a few weeks back to “PLAY IT!” status when I was cleaning up my Steam library and realized I’d downloaded but not played it. It hooked me in right away and made me wish it was on more platforms because as great as Steam is, not everyone who’d love this fun and funny action/RPG is playing it.

Of course, me being late to the party means Hungary-based Neocore Games has been a hard at work on a sequel that’s going to be even bigger than the original and they want you to climb aboard the even more comedy-laced monster killing train early:

What was that? You say things were moving too quickly and you want screenshots? Um, okay – here you go:

Feel better now? Good. But wait, there’s MORE…

Where was I again? Oh, right.  The sequel is set to drop onto Steam this April 17 at a mere $14.99 and Neocore has some mighty tasty pre-order backer packages set up that run from $15 to $1000. Yes, you should check them out, as a few of them can even get YOU in the game. Oh, and if you’re one of those lucky folks who played and loved the first game and want to know what the big changes are, this handy infographic should keep your eyeballs happy for a little bit:

Yum! Anyway, I need this game like some big ugly monsters need holes in their heads and I think YOU need it as well. You DO know that pre-ordering the game gets you into the closed beta test, right? Well, now you do and you know what to do, right?. Here’s a not so subtle hint for the slow ones (click below, please!)…