Atari’s Driv3r Ships

ATARI SHIPS DRIV3R FOR
PLAYSTATION®2 AND XBOX

Highly Anticipated Sequel to 12
Million-Selling “Driver” Franchise Hits Retail Stores Worldwide With
Unparalleled Vehicular Game Play, AAA Hollywood Voice Talent

LOS ANGELES – June 21, 2004 – Atari
has shipped DRIV3R, the highly anticipated action-driving game for the
PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system and the Xbox™ video game system from
Microsoft, to retail stores worldwide today. DRIV3R is an action-packed
driving-adventure game that recreates the excitement of a Hollywood blockbuster
car chase and plays like an interactive movie.

“We are proud to bring one of the
most anticipated console games of the year to store shelves,” said Wim Stocks,
Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Atari. “Reflections has done
it again, expanding on the ground-breaking Driver franchise which set the bar
for an entire genre and that gamers worldwide have known and loved for more than
four years. The behind-the-wheel experience in DRIV3R – as in past installments
– is second to none, from tire squealing car chases to body panel-bashing
vehicle destruction. DRIV3R will keep gamers on the edge of their seats and
looking for safety belts in their couches!”

The next evolution of the hugely
popular and successful Driver franchise, DRIV3R is developed by Reflections
Interactive (an Atari studio), the masterminds of the franchise, which has sold
more than 12 million units worldwide to date. DRIV3R stays true to its roots,
incorporating the cinematic gameplay and gritty street crime of its predecessors
with ground-breaking graphics and three mammoth, wide-open city environments.

Featuring Hollywood-level production
values and a gripping, narrative story line, DRIV3R casts players once again as
Tanner, a jaw breaking, no-holds-barred undercover cop and master “Wheelman” who
does whatever it takes to bring the bad guys down. This time, Tanner, alongside
his longtime partner, Tobias Jones, must infiltrate a global car theft ring,
surviving high-octane car chases and fierce on-foot firefights while tailing
gangsters, chasing witnesses, stealing cars and unloading huge clips of ammo to
bring the criminals to justice.

Game Features

• Major voice acting talent is
  involved in DRIV3R, including Michael Madsen as Tanner, Mickey Rourke as the
  sinister Jericho, Michelle Rodriguez as the sexy Calita and Ving Rhames as
  Tanner’s partner, Tobias Jones

• Three gigantic and true-to-life
  cities, including Miami, Nice and Istanbul, with more than 35,000 buildings
  hand-placed and decorated for intricate detail and ultimate immersion

• More than 70 controllable
  vehicles, including motorcycles, boats, police cars, vans, mopeds, muscle cars
  and fully articulated 18 wheelers

• More than 150 miles of major
  highways and city streets to explore plus countless uncharted open areas,
  alleys, dirt roads and smaller byways

• A stunning graphics engine capable
  of creating massive photorealistic environments – both indoor and outdoor –
  filled with hundreds of destructible objects to be smashed and blasted both in
  vehicles and on foot

• Complete destruction model allows
  vehicles to crumble realistically as they are bashed, smashed and driven to
  the limits of their design

• Unmatched driving and physics
  engine creates the most exciting and fun vehicle performance in any game
  

• A deep, narrative storyline that
  plays like an interactive movie, recreating the attitude, action and car chase
  sequences of modern gangster films like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,
  Snatch and Pulp Fiction; nearly an hour of CGI video fleshes out the plot with
  dramatic scenes of sinister crime syndicate dealings

• Multiple solutions to missions
  allow players to plan strategically before they move in on the crooks and
  choose between a full frontal assault or a more surreptitious alternative,
  depending on gameplay tastes

• Driver’s signature “Film Director”
  function, which records every move made in the game, allows gamers to place
  cameras anywhere and direct and save their own Hollywood car chase to memory
  cards; Xbox players can upload their homemade films to Xbox Live! for users
  worldwide to download and view

Sorrent Inc., a global leader in
mobile entertainment, in partnership with Atari, has also shipped DRIV3R
worldwide for mobile phones, featuring both in-car and out-of-car game play from
a top-down perspective. With 16 missions available in Miami, Nice and Istanbul,
DRIV3R for mobile phones features multiple vehicles and gameplay that becomes
more challenging as the game progresses. As gamers successfully complete the
Undercover Mode on the mobile game, cheat codes for the Xbox and PlayStation®2
versions are unlocked.

DRIV3R is currently available
worldwide with an estimated retail price in North America of $49.95 and an ESRB
rating of ‘M’ for Mature. For more information on DRIV3R, please visit the
game’s official Web site at www.DRIV3R.com.

About Atari

New York-based Atari, Inc. (Nasdaq:
ATAR) develops interactive games for all platforms and is one of the largest
third-party publishers of interactive entertainment software in the U.S. The
Company’s 1,000+ titles include hard-core, genre-defining games such as DRIV3R™,
Enter the Matrix™, Neverwinter Nights™, Stuntman™, Test Drive®, Unreal®
Tournament 2004, and Unreal® Championship; and mass-market and children’s games
such as Backyard Sports™, Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues™ and Dora the Explorer™,
Civilization®, Dragon Ball Z® and RollerCoaster Tycoon®. Atari, Inc. is a
majority-owned subsidiary of France-based Infogrames Entertainment SA (Euronext
5257), the largest interactive games publisher in Europe. For more information,
visit www.atari.com.