Atlus
U.S.A., Inc. Set To Release River City Ransom Ex On The Nintendo Game Boy
Advance
A cult-classic is reborn!
Irvine, CA, May 14, 2002
– Atlus U.S.A., Inc., today announced its plans to publish an
enhanced version of the cult-classic NES game, River City Ransom EX for the Game
Boy® Advance. River City Ransom was and still is a truly unique experience which
blends a significant amount of action, fighting and role playing elements into
one game.
Story: Panic strikes
River City!
"To the citizens of River City: I hold your high
school captive! With my gangs of students and vicious bosses roaming the
streets, nobody can stop me now! Meet my demands – or else!"
Slick, the meanest, most powerful gang lord in
River City, has issued this ultimatum – and the entire town is powerless in a
grip of fear!
Fortunately, Alex and Ryan weren’t in school the
day Slick took it over. But now, their fellow students are prisoners – including
Ryan’s girlfriend! It’s up to our two young heroes to battle their way past
several dangerous city gangs, then defeat the gang lord to free the students of
River City High and restore peace to the panic-stricken populace!
"With its unique character building system and
customization, River City Ransom EX truly is the ‘RPG of side-scrolling
fighting games,’" said Akibo Shieh, Project Lead, Atlus U.S.A., Inc. "We are
bringing to life a videogame classic to the Game Boy Advance and we look forward
to developing other titles based on this awesome franchise."
Features:
• Features two different game modes: Story Mode
(story-driven, one or two player cooperative mode); 2 player Battle Mode (Take
your customized character against another player)
• Buy items to increase your stats and learn
powerful techniques.
• Dynamic story mode allows events to take place
as you progress through the game, allowing you to gather clues, make or break
friendships, earn items/techniques, and much more!
• Special link mode allows you to use one Game
Boy Advance for actual gameplay and another to display the status screen and
watch how your NPCs are doing.
• Depending on the things you do when playing the
story mode, or how your friend plays against you in battle mode, you can save
the gameplay style and create a computer-controlled AI character. By exchanging
data, you can fight against another player’s custom AI character.
• Customize the game any way you want! Change
your character status, techniques, background music. Save your customized data
and exchange it with another person.
River City Ransom EX
has not yet been rated by the ESRB. For more information, visit the official
Atlus web site at www.atlus.com.
2003 ATLUS MILLION
