42 ............... Sunday, March 11, 2018 1SM 1SM Sunday, March 11, 2018 ............... 43 THE talented Eliot booth. He has created an even an appearance from lPoulter keeps on unbelievable stop motion Darth Maul. Check it out at pushing the boundaries of animated video — featuring the Pendulum Tuning MUSIC GAMES Forza Motorsport paint fighter planes, E.T. and channel on YouTube. LATE BASSIST GAVE BLESSING FOR TOUR... THE wait is almost Metal Gear Survive lover...the sequel to State of Decay has been Xbox One, PS4 and PC £29.99 given a release date. BAYONETTA quickly became a cult classic Bayonetta with everything from the endless grunts to the METAL Gear Survive is well We will be able to get when it was released in 2010. Now Switch screen-filling beasts having bags of detail and a named because it faces a our hands on the zombie owners can find out what the fuss was about. Switch £24.99 (Free code with Bayonetta 2) real polish. real battle just to make the survival RPG follow-up on Platinum Games have a hack-and-slash It is all backed up by a soundtrack that keeps sales chart. May 22. off combos with a mix of punching, kicking and The political fallout pedigree, with titles like Madworld and Vanquish weapon-wielding. up the tempo in the heat of battle. The voice act- Developers Undead in the stable, but Bayonetta has a class all of its ing is brilliant, with Bayonetta voiced by Hellena between Konami and series Labs have made quite a own. You play as a witch called Bayonetta. The star is the torture attacks which feed off Taylor. She steals the show with some of the mastermind Hideo Kojima few gory changes for She has lost her memory, but you get it back your magic. They can annihilate about 90 per best one-liners we have ever heard in gaming. has cast a deep shadow different editions. gradually as you work through the game. cent of enemies in the game and they often see There are only minor gripes — some of the over the game and many The standard £24.99 The actual story is a bit off the wall and com- you summoning monsters or a huge stiletto areas are a bit dull, especially when you see how fans were outraged at the edition includes just the plex, but it won’t stop your gaming experience. though portals. special some of the others are, and some will treatment Kojima received. base game. That’s because you want to fight. And the It’s all down to a magic suit which is made out find Bayonetta just a little too challenging. However, if gamers can However, the uItimate fighting is top-notch. of your hair. Wacky enough for you? Don’t It has certainly made the …err…switch to get beyond that then there is £39.99 edition will spice It is over-the-top, fast and hits all the marks as overthink it, just enjoy. Switch in style. It may be eight years old but it is an interesting game to play. things up with the you take on an army of angels, which is a neat The fight scenes work so well because the as good as it ever was. It is safe to say that this independence and twist on the standard fighting demons theme. graphics are an amazing mix of urban and HHHHH game has departed the daybreak pack. The Switch gives it all an epic feel as you pull gothic styles. The enemies look outstanding, STUART CULLEN series route. Solid Snake You will also be able to and his pals have gone and get the game four days the story style is completely before the official release. different. Happy days. The game is set after Metal Gear Solid V as you and bits of the Mother Base are sucked though a wormhole to a hostile and desolate place called Dite. 1 FIFA 18 You have to save your troops and rebuild your 2 Grand Theft Auto V force…blah, blah, blah. 3 Call Of Duty: WWII Standard if not spectacular 4 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe plot. You know the score. It 5 Monster Hunter: works OK and tries to add to World the MGSV tale across the 25-30-hour running time. PROG rockers Yes will to putting together a show for that. We’ve got a couple of fan conventions Micro-management is the perform their 50th by RACHEL THE wait for Far Cry key to success. There is a lot as well, so it’s going to be a big 5 is almost over and anniversary tour — but MACPHERSON celebration of 50 years of Yes music. l of planning because every- But with the release of new album to whet the appetite a thing drains you it’s only going ahead movie prequel has been — from moving fresh. He said: “It’s been very important Fly From Here — The Return at the end because founding of March, the musician also reveals that released by Ubisoft. around to being for the band and it’s one of the reasons The half-hour flick member Chris Squire it has managed to sustain itself for so looking back has been “bittersweet”. in danger areas. many years. He said: “The setlist falls into place follows three vloggers as You need to gave it his blessing just “Although the band has retained its itself, but it’s such a vast catalogue, they research the Eden think and make before he died. sound over the years, I think that around 21 or 22 studio albums, that’s an Gate cult for a the most of the having different people come in and enormous volume of work to look at it. documentary. risk-reward style The bassist, bottom left, passed We try to mix it up and do things that With the game just away aged 67 in 2015 from acute adding different eras has added of pushing on but maybe different sides to Yes.” He added: “If are a little bit more obscure, but we’re three weeks away we are running out of food, water or erythroid leukaemia but he was you look at us today, we’ve got a really conscious that there are some tracks we introduced to ruthless air. However, the reward determined the band should carry great line-up of musicians and I still have to include. leader ‘the Father’ rarely outweighs the risk. on after his death. admire and learn from them every day.” “The Topographic Drama record was Joseph Seed as well as Combat is a bit more And keyboard player Geoff Downes, Geoff will be joined by Steve Howe, going to be next in our album the rest of the twisted sequence, but sadly Chris passed away interesting, but the enemies bottom right, said: “It was a big blow Alan White, Billy Sherwood and Jon Seed family. are not the most exciting when Chris departed because he was Davidson when the band hits the road before we could do that. Far Cry 5: Inside Eden’s the mainstay and had been through for the 50th anniversary this month. He “It was all really about paying hom- ever designed and there is age to Chris to do that album, it is a Gate is available to watch only a handful of battle every generation of the band. said: “It’s a very nice thing for the fans. on Amazon Prime. “We spoke to Chris when he knew he “They’ve been part of the band for 50 really bittersweet thing to take that on scenarios. wouldn’t be able to make the tour, and years and we’re really looking forward the road.” You will also have to build he said the band should carry on But with five decades under their JOHN a base then upgrade it. regardless. It was in some ways belt, Geoff also admits he’s looking Robertson That is quite cool — the only way we could carry on forward to looking back over the good brings his brilliant Witch pickingsespecially as you add new — with Chris’s blessing. times. He says: “We’ve got some interactive live-action features — but it’s menu “We all miss his larger-than- great following in Scotland. video game The Dark THE launch of the Switch has Bayonetta 2 Switch so far. There is a wide mix of heavy and doesn’t explain life personality, but he always “It will be a real trip down Room to The Stand areas and styles but none of the muddy, anything very well. you memory lane for a lot of the paved the way for some hidden Switch £42.99 dull areas from the first game. This said that Yes music should There is an online horde fans because when you think of Comedy Club in continue on much longer than Glasgow on gems to get the limelight. of work yet. It takes everything that was really suits the handheld console format mode where you team up any of us, so we’ve carried on a band like Yes, who have been Thousands of gamers love great about the first game and because the docked mode occasionally going for 50 years, the fans and Wednesday. See the- shows up a few small texture issues. with friends and can bag that legacy.” johnrobert- Bayonetta, see above, but few got to ramps it up to 11. It runs like melted much-needed materials. The band was originally formed the band are now getting on a butter even in the heat of the most The soundtrack is great.