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SHAQUILLE O’Neal has had a rollercoaster ride when it comes to gaming, but the FAR Cry 3 has been lauded by many as the larger-than-life basketball player is back with best game in the series so far, so it’s no a bang here. surprise that Ubisoft have given it a This started out life as a Crowdfunding re-release with the Classic touch. project at Indiegogo — and raised $458,884 You and a group of friends are on a gap- year holiday but your pals get kidnapped Yarny’s a tug-team treat from just 1,339 fans. It is a side-scrolling beat-em-up in the by pirates. Meet Vaas, one of the best bad guys in ONE of the surprise announcements at Unravel 2 you can’t help but fall for Yarny’s same vein as Streets Of Rage, but this has no gaming history. To say he has a few this year’s E3 was that Unravel was charms. You can even customise his pretensions — expect lots of cheesy one- screws loose is an understatement — he getting a sequel. Xbox One, PS4 and PC £16.19 colour and the shape of his head to liners and dodgy gags over three hours. shoots your brother and you escape into The bigger news was that Coldwood personalise your adventure. You are a Shaq who has been raised in And the co-op doesn’t prevent you Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn the jungle and launch a 16 to 17-hour bid to Far Cry 3 Classic Edition Interactive released the game after the attacking it on your own. However, the Finish the main tale and there are 20 China and is a kung-fu master. Your village is release your friends. EA conference. challenge levels that will test your skills attacked and you are out for revenge over a Xbox One, PS4 ,PC and Switch £15.99 most fun is when you have a friend — it There is all the usual fare, like climbing Xbox One, PS4 and PC £24.99 Yarny is back but this time he is part raises the game a few levels and there to the limit. They add a wedge of replay number of stages and boss fights. It’s justice and the main theme being sung by Shaq is a towers to unlock maps and having to hunt is very light so don’t expect stunning new of a couch co-op game, so you and a value. Shaq-style. is no better feeling than beating a NEW highlight. to get skins to upgrade your kit. looks, and it is a shame that the Blood friend can tackle the journey together. puzzle through team-work. This a strong return. It has built on It is good fun but, like similar games, it can Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn will make fans If you played Far Cry 5 then you will have Dragon DLC is not included. Fans of the first game will know what what was good in the original. The only get repetitive fairly quickly. They have tried to You jump, swing and climb your way MUSIC smile but some of the gags could upset a few a dilemma. That game evolved the core It is a halfway house — it is still a good to expect — a blend of light story-telling through some truly beautiful levels down side is that it is crying out for freshen it up with sections where you can people. This won’t blow you away, but it is a gameplay, so this is a trip back in time. game in its own right but there is nothing online options. Couch co-op is fun, but turn into a robot and a . . . er…cactus. short, sharp blast of fun to be had, even if the and solid puzzle platforming. from grim, rain-soaked streets to lush That is a bit of a pain because constantly new. However, if this has passed you by in The tale focuses on two young forests. It’s all backed up by a not everyone has friends close by. The motley group of enemies include price is a bit steep at the moment for what climbing towers just feels like you are fill- the past then you’re in for a treat. kilted soldiers with GERMAN accents. you get. runaways, but the story often fades into soundtrack that delivers awe and a HHHHú ing in time. HHHH the background over the seven levels. sense of tension in equal measures and STUART CULLEN CAEZAR There is plenty of chunky cartoon colour in HHH As this is a re-release the HD treatment STUART CULLEN WHERE: /. the graphics and the animated cut scenes STUART CULLEN WHO: JJ Gilmour (vocals/ piano/guitar/omnichord), Joe Donnelly (bass/piano/ guitar). FOR FANS OF: , , . JIM SAYS: They dismiss ‘Real heroes themselves as a supergroup, but Joe and JJ have an impressive pedigree. Both were in legendary Scottish band The Silencers, but not at the same time. Gui- inspired us’ tarist Joe had already left the band when JJ came on GAME designer Dave Miller docks by a crew of comman- board around the release of had the perfect inspiration for dos. They disembarked and 1991’s Dance To The Holy Bomber Crew — his great- fought a heroic battle and kept Man . uncle was a navigator on World the presence of the explosives JJ then carved out a solo War II missions. secret until they detonated the career, including last year’s Now Runner Duck Games following day, rendering the DiX album. He also had a co-founder Dave hopes the dock unusable. There are many brief stint as East 17’s front- insight they have brought to the other incredible lesser-known man as well as singing with game can turn it into a massive stories from WWII, so we had the featuring REDY FOR hit for the indie studio. plenty to draw from.” Bomber Crew started life on from Dave joined coder and co-founder Jon Wingrove to tell the PC but Jon, bottom, admits and stars Mark they spent a long time working Brzezicki and . STUART CULLEN about the past, present and future of their on the controls to make the The duo may not have move to consoles. played together in The THE BATTLE latest title. He said: “That was some- Silencers but they weren’t WELCOME back to the Dave, below, said: “I’ve Red Faction: Guerrilla always been fascinated with thing we actually prototyped strangers. In fact, it was sad playground of destruction. Re-Mars-tered even before the PC release. We circumstances that sowed The Red Faction series has War epic WWII aircraft, as my great- uncle was a naviga- showed a demo ver- the seeds for Caezar. had an interesting journey from Xbox One, PS4 and PC £26.99 sion of the game at a Joe explained: “We got to first-person shooter on the PS2 tor on a Whitley the freedom fighters — but the bomber. I loved play- few events, and a lot know each other much better to third-person open-world game of the refining of the when JJ organised a benefit with Guerilla and Armageddon. bottom line is blast, blast and ing games like B-17 more blast with a heavy arsenal Flying Fortress when controls came out of night for The Silencers guitar Now THQ Nordic have given just watching how player Cha Burns at the ABC Guerrilla the HD treatment and of weaponry. I was younger, but The highlight is that you can up coming back to them new players man- in Glasgow. Cha was fighting hammered in the best pun in aged. cancer at the time and sadly gaming history — calling it the the ante. If enemies are hiding in in recent years, I felt a a building, then destroy it. You little disappointed “We’ve made a few passed away a few months Re-Mars-tered edition. Well, we other improvements after the show. It was then we liked it anyway. can attack it with a sledgeham- that there wasn’t mer, throw blast charges at it or more of a focus on here and there, but started chatting about writ- The interesting aspect is how we haven’t had to ing together. The sadness the game evolves from a just hit it with a two-tonne truck. the crew. That really does ramp up the hits the cut back or simplify and emotion we both felt was sandbox game in 2009 to a “Jon and I dis- EXCLUSIVE fun factor and change the flow of cussed some ideas the game in any way. so raw. There was only one major hit in 2018. “On both Xbox way to turn this into some- The Red Faction series has all the play. for a crew-focused INTERVIEW The graphics are nice and bomber manage- One X and PS4 Pro thing positive and that was to been set on Mars, even if it was a we run at higher res- loose connection in the second crisp, but they are showing their ment game, and the make music.” age a little and, being set on olutions compared Caezar’s debut album game. core concept for Mars, there is a lot of reds Bomber Crew was to the base consoles. Time has been three years in Guerrilla sees you back in Xbox One X is full 4K. the boots of Alec Mason, and browns. The sound- born. the making, preceded by track is OK and Troy Baker “The console ver- 2016’s The Prayer EP. Joe who has just landed on the “The huge popu- leads the voice acting well. larity of games like sion will launch with would travel up from his red planet to see his brother. On the downside the AI an all new Challenge home in London to work on It is now a mining planet Faster Than Light is dreadful. The friendly also helped con- Mode. PC players will songs with JJ in Glasgow. and the air is breathable so ones get in the way more receive a patch there’s no need for heights vince us that it was Co-produced with Stuart than anything else and the an idea that would which will add this MacLeod at Beetroot Studios spacesuits. game has infinite spawning flying and spotting the enemies, keeping the crew. Moral dilemma time — and it mode on the same Shortly after arriving, BOMBER Crew looks like a cute Bomber Crew find an audience, in Airdrie, the album also enemies when it’s all kick- the gunners stocked with ammo, trying was an aspect we certainly weren’t which, luckily, it did!” day. In Challenge Mode, you features Texas drummer Mason is faced with a ing off. That is not funny and war game with colourful graphics Xbox One, PS4, PC and Switch £14.99 to heal any wounded and then you need expecting when we loaded up the play to get a high score by com- difficult choice — He added: “The cam- Ross McFarlane and David not clever. and loud guns, but it actually has different missions. On long escapades you’ll to try to fix damage to the plane. game. It adds real weight to the paign is largely based on pleting as many challenge Crichton from The Silencers be captured by Red Faction Guerrilla: want to fly at a higher altitude to save fuel, At first it is all a bit overwhelming game — it’s less about victory and waves as you can before your the bad guys, the a conscience. so your crew will need cold-weather gear or but if you keep a cool head then you’ll more about survival. real raids that took place in on violin. Already available to Re-Mars-tered edition is a The Runner Ducks Games SIM is all Europe in WWII. bomber is destroyed. stream and download, Time EDF, or become a welcome return for a classic else they will start to freeze. make it back in one piece . . . even when That cute look is built on the about building a WWII bombing crew pixel art style and the soundtrack “We’ve taken some liber- “It’s great as a break from the is released on CD and vinyl guerilla with the title. It is a decent shout if You can change their looks and give them you lose two engines and the third pressure of campaign mode, as and looking after them. You start to names and that increases the attachment bursts into flames. fits the weight of the task, with ties for the sake of game- on Friday through Vertere Red Faction and you have never encoun- play, but you can look up it doesn’t risk losing your main Records. It’s the first release fight to liberate Mars. care for them. you’ll feel. The gut-wrencher is the permadeath bouncing sounds at the barracks to tered the series before. system. If any of your crew die then tracks that set the mode during fights. most missions and find out campaign bomber or crew.” on the label, spawned from The tale does an OK Hopefully, it is a sign And, like the real thing must have been, it You also need to prepare and gear-up really hurts when you lose one of them. your bomber, from adding armour and they are gone and you have to recruit a The difficulty of some of the missions what really happened. The team is already working the high-end turntable com- job at framing the game, that the series is set will catch a lot of people out, but the “Some are almost on the next stage. Dave added: but the key aim is to blow You get your team then have to handle a better systems to even designing a livery. new member and train them up. pany of the same name. for a return but, until heap of missions behind enemy lines in Finish prep and it is down to work. You You feel the loss. You have named him more time you spend with it the better stranger than fiction, like “We’re getting close to finishing Caezar play The Old Court things up — that destruc- then, just get your and may even have given him an RAF- you will become. It’s a real test of skill, Operation Chariot — the the next piece of DLC for tion playground. mainland Europe. take control of your seven-man crew and in Windsor on Saturday a**e to Mars. It’s a game of two halves — the prep stage head into battle. The missions get tougher style moustache — and he’s dead because management and nerves and there’s an raid on the dry-dock at St Bomber Crew — it’s far more before a date at Òran Mór in There is a mix of tasks HHHHú and the mission stage. At the start you pick and they are full of tension. It is like spin- you chose to reload the gun instead of emotional twist in the tale. Nazaire, where an allied ship substantial than the Secret Glasgow on July 27. They from main missions to STUART your crew and kit them out in new gear — ning a hundred plates at one time, and all giving him first aid. HHHHú rigged with explosives was Weapons mission pack DLC. also appear at Kelvingrove challenges to helping out CULLEN and they will need specific equipment for while trying to hold it all together. You are But then your actions saved the rest of STUART CULLEN rammed into the occupied We will reveal more soon.” Bandstand in the city on July 30 supporting Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders on the first night of Regular lTHE F1 Pro Series is back — was welcomed by Aston Martin SEA Of lDOVETAIL Games insist their player where up to four anglers IT was a fun fest in Canada as TennoCon gameplay link between Warframe’s open Music’s Summer Nights and it’s bigger and better. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. Thieves is pay- new Fishing Sim World is the can fight it out on real-time leader- lGET in early for some neat 2018 opened its doors. landscapes, procedurally generated series of open-air gigs. They had an NFL-style draft The draft was a huge hit — with ing tribute to Banjo- reel deal. boards. extras with No Man’s Sky. It The third annual Warframe convention, levels and the outer-space freedom. MORE: wearecaezar.co.uk event in London which saw each of more then 850,000 people Kazooie’s 20th birthday It promises to be the most There is 18 species of fish and finally lands on the Xbox One on by Digital Extremes, opened up with Thrill No3: ‘Revenant’ is an Eidolon- lJim presents a weekly the main F1 teams pick their two watching the live stream. by having a special authentic fishing experience in fully licensed kit with rods, reels July 27, but if you pre- news of a new open-world Venus players to board a shuttle on land and themed Warframe with a deadly showcase of New Music on most wanted drivers from the Mark Brittain, the Chief limited-time Bear And Bird gaming. The SIM combines and lures from the likes of Bass order you’ll get goodies 1 Crash Bandicoot expansion called Fortuna. shoot into space to explore and fight in a affliction, while ‘Garuda’ is a vicious, Amazing Radio, Sundays at top 40 sim racers in Commercial Officer figurine. It will cost you 1,998 realistic game Cat Boats, Bill like an Artios-VI gun N.Sane Trilogy It’s in the same vein as Plains Eidolon, ship-to-ship tactical battle system. gory Warframe that plays with her 2-4pm. the world. at Gfinity, said: “We’d gold coins (to match the physics and Lewis, Duckett and from the start as well as 2 Jurassic World: but the Orb Vallis is a volatile terrain with New features include PvE prey. amazingradio.com Graham Carroll, like to year the game came out). accurate fish AI. Korda. 10k in currency. You’ll Evolution blue and orange clouds and seascape combat. You can also Thrill No4: Digital jimgellatly.com from Musselburgh, congratulate every It is a carved wooden There will be a mix It’s out on Xbox also get an Xbox 3 The Crew 2 flora, giant mushrooms, alien rock launch Archwings into Extremes have teamed was picked up by the driver who was brown bear with a red of modes, but One, PS4 and PC on green XO Suit and hel- 4 FIFA 18 formations, creatures and more. space to board, infiltrate up with Panic Button to Watch a video of the Red Bull Racing drafted this bird on a blue expect the biggest September 18. What met. 5 Mario Tennis Thrill No2: ‘Railjack’ — as it has been and destroy enemy ships. bring Warframe to band playing at: eSports Team and evening.” shield. frenzy on the multi- a catch. dubbed for now — will allow up to four It all aims to create a Switch. Ooft. thescottishsun.co.uk Aces