YURI’S REVENGE SHIPS!
October 8, 2001
Westwood Studios announced today
that Command & Conquer Yuri’s Revenge, will ship in North America October 9th,
and should be fully distributed in North America by October 12th.
Yuri’s Revenge is the largest
expansion in Westwood’s history, adding to the real-time strategy game new
Allied and Soviet units, two single-player campaigns, multiplayer features,
co-operative campaigns, an hour of filmed story sequences, and an entirely new
side: an army lead by the mysterious psychic warrior, Yuri.
In the original Red Alert 2, Yuri
was a controllable unit on the Soviet side. For the expansion, Yuri breaks from
the Soviets and launches his own bid for world domination through psychic
technology. Players will take command of a time-traveling task force and go back
in time to unravel Yuri’s evil plot.
“With Yuri’s Revenge, we wanted to
give the fans more of the addictive and fast-paced gameplay they loved in Red
Alert 2,” said Mark Skaggs, executive producer of Yuri’s Revenge. “Yuri’s
Revenge is a hugely ambitious expansion to an wildly successful product and we
are excited about getting it out to the public.”
Yuri’s Revenge will feature
multiplay over a Local Area Network and over the Internet through Westwood
Online. Players can engage in fierce combat with each other or team up to play
through the 10 co-op missions. Yuri’s Revenge will also have it’s own dedicated
tournament and ladder system that will rank players worldwide and allow them to
keep track of their victories and defeats against other Internet gamers.
