And so we return to this most exclusive of golf clubs, the one with no sign of any expensive German saloon cars in the car park, no luridlypatterned Ronnie Corbettstyle pullovers, and no real book of rules. Outlaw Golf is back for another round in the imaginativelytitled ...2. Developer Hypnotix has delivered a golf game that for all its irreverence towards the sport is well above par. Theres no case of sequelitis to treat here, just a fun golf game with a host of amusing diversions and flavours. Heres just a few modes, briefly described for your pleasure, just a taste of what to expect from OG2: Baseball mode invites you to play a round of golf with said sports rules and up to four players on the course. Instead of the usual strokebased scoring system, in this mode, a picture of the four bases determines how well youre doing. How you play on each hole will decide the type of hit you get, and to score, youll need to get one of your men to round the bases back to home. Next up is a multiplayer delight called Bingo Bango. For many people, the most frustrating part of golf is putting. You can do everything right up until that point: fantastic drive, good approach shot, find yourself putting for birdie, and then fall to pieces with a three putt and finish with a bogey. In Bingo Bango mode, the end result isnt the only thing that matters. Two to four players can get it on in Bingo Bango, and there are three ways to score in this game: A Be the first player to reach the green and you will get a point added to your Bingo bank. B Be the closest player to the pin when reaching the green and you will get a point added to your Bango bank. C Be the player with the lowest number of strokes and you will get a point added to your Bingo bank. Add the points up at the end of the round to determine the winner. Pick Up Sticks is a twoplayer only mode, which gives you the opportunity to stick the boot in on your opponent when he/she is down. The winner of each hole gets to take a club from the loser. Start by taking away their driver, and its almost certainly curtains. After a few holes, the fun really starts. Of course, if you lose a hole, your opponent can choose to get one of their stolen clubs back, or if theyre feeling really vindictive, they can steal one of yours out of sheer spite. If the frustration of having your clubs taken away from you onebyone is too much, you might want to give the My One and Only mode a try. This mode for one to four players invites you to play through a course with just one club and one putter. You get to choose which club you use, but pick wisely, because once youre on the course, youre stuck with it. Fortunately for you, so is everyone else, so you wont look like a total dork when you miss the green from ten yards with your choice of club that seemed like a good idea at the time. In Time Attack, its not the quality of your game that counts, its how quickly you can get through the course. The timer begins as soon as the player addresses the ball and stops as soon as the club makes contact with it. This goes on until the ball finds the hole. So take as many strokes as you like, dont aim, dont worry about hitting the water: just concentrate on getting there as quickly as possible. Vegas is an unnecessarily complicated in our humble opinion, anyway teambased game for four people. Its played like a regular strokebased game, except at the end of each hole, your teams scores are combined, with the lowest score becoming the first digit, and the highest becoming the second. The team with the lowest combined score wins the hole, and is awarded money in the amount of the difference between the two teams scores. Is that clear? Ahem... Finally, before we run out of space on our corner of the Internet, in Casino mode, gambling types put up cash stakes for every shot taken.