STACK NZ Summer #70

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SHARK SHOCKER NEXT FOR ROTH After the cannibal gore-fest The Green Inferno , Eli Roth is set to tackle a very different sort on man-eater in Meg .

M eg is based on the cult novel by Steve Alten and tells the story of a 70 foot prehistoric ancestor of the Great White – the carcharodon Megalodon – which is unwittingly unleashed from its home in the Mariana Trench. While giant sharks have been featured in a host of Z-grade movies of late, this will be a big budget studio production. And Roth has the perfect credentials to direct: as well as his proven genre credential, he’s also a bit of a shark fan, hosting the Discovery Channel shows S hark After Dark and Shark Week . Aside from Meg , other upcoming projects from Roth include a remake of his break through horror hit Cabin Fever (he is producing and may have a cameo in it) and a sequel to The Green Inferno – which is due here on DVD and Blu-ray next month – provisionally entitled Beyond The Green Inferno .

The Green Inferno

FAR CRY GOES PRIMAL

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The Far Cry series has always been a franchise favourite in the STACK office. The last two entries in the first-person shooter series have taken gamers from sun-drenched tropical islands to the icy peaks of Nepal. Complete with a compelling story, a plethora of intriguing missions and smooth gameplay, the Far Cry titles have always been good performers for the French publisher. The next game in the franchise – released just over a year after Far Cry 4 - has taken everyone by surprise by ditching AK47s for bows, arrows and spears. A traditional contemporary setting has been swapped for

the Mesolithic period, or the Stone Age to you and I, where the protagonist, a hunter named Takkar, must craft weaponry, tame and ride animals and attempt to grow your very own tribe. With no multiplayer mode attached to Far Cry Primal and the absence of co-op gameplay, the challenge for Ubisoft will be to deliver a quality single player experience sufficiently different from what we’ve come to expect from the series. However, the thought of hunting a mammoth armed with nothing more than a bow, an axe or a spear has certainly piqued our interest.

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Bonnie Raitt returns later this month with her 20th studio album Dig In Deep . The follow-up to 2012’s Grammy Award-winning Slipstream , the new LP was recorded with her touring band of the last two years and features five co-writes by Raitt, the most original compositions she has contributed to a record since 1998’s Fundamental . “I was really inspired to come up with some songs that went with grooves that I missed playing in my live show, and to dig deeper into some topics I hadn’t yet mined,” she says. “I don’t write easily and can get distracted, but remembering how satisfying it was to come up with something new of my own, and writing with guys I love.”

Dig In Deep is due out on February 26

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