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Contact:
Genevieve
Ostergard
Sierra
Studios
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SIERRA
STUDIOS TO ELECTRIFY EUROPEAN COMPUTER TRADE SHOW (ECTS) WITH ACTION/STRATEGY
LINEUP
Bellevue,
WA (September 1, 2000) – Sierra Studios(tm), a member of the Sierra
On-Line family, today announced a varied and exciting lineup of titles
to be showcased at the European Computer Trade Show (ECTS) in London, England,
stand number HS 250 from September 3rd through 5th. Continuing the momentum
established by the unprecedented success and acclaim of its flagship
title Half-Life, especially after amassing over 50 Game of the Year awards,
Sierra Studios will present a slate of five groundbreaking titles of the
show floor.
The
lineup includes Tribes 2(tm), Zeus(tm): Master of Olympus(tm),
Half-Life(r) Dreamcast(tm), and proudly announces two new games,
Warrior Kings(tm) and Gunman Chronicles(tm). Our
fall 2000 lineup, more than ever before, reflects how we are continuing
to raise the bar for cutting-edge action and
strategy games and offering excellent
choices for both genres," commented Jim Veevaert, vice-president of
marketing for Sierra Studios.
SIERRA
STUDIOS ECTS TITLE LINEUP:
TRIBES
2
Tribes
2 is the eagerly awaited sequel to the 1999 Online Action/Strategy Game
of the Year: Starsiege Tribes. The game is the ultimate in team-based action
and offers massive, breathtaking worlds for exploration and battle, as
well as unprecedented innovations in team-based, tactical gameplay. Tribes
2 offers an environment where brainpower and teamwork are the only true
keys to survival and victory. This experience is not limited to the online
players alone. Tribes 2 also adds a new single-player component that allows
players to fill their teams with computer-controlled teammates before heading
into the epic battles for which the Tribes franchise is known. Tribes
2 will be available this fall and will be featuring a worldwide challenge
to gamers in the "Tribes 2 Olympics" with $50,000 USD at stake.
ZEUS:
MASTER OF OLYMPUS
From
Impressions Games, the development team that brought the world Pharaoh and
the Caesar(tm) series, comes Zeus: Master of Olympus, the sixth game in
their award-winning City Building Series. Zeus,
set in a mythological ancient Greece,
serves up a world filled with the likes of Hercules, Athena, Ares,
Medusa, the Minotaur, and many others. Players build and rule Greek city-states
while summoning heroes and gods to protect their land from monsters
and other Greek cities. Easy to learn, and quick to get in and out of,
Zeus promises to be the most fun city building game yet. Zeus will ship
this November.
HALF-LIFE
DREAMCAST
Scheduled
for release this fall, Half-Life Dreamcast is in development by Northern
California-based Captivation Digital Laboratories in conjunction with
Gearbox Software and Valve LLC. Half-Life: Dreamcast is set to be even more
extraordinary than the original PC version. In addition to the exclusive
new mission, Half-Life: Blue Shift, the Sega Dreamcast edition includes
the original version of Half-Life with several enrichments, including
highly detailed characters, enhanced weapons, and more articulate animation
to showcase the power of the Sega Dreamcast and deliver a fresh and
exciting experience for console gamers.
WARRIOR
KINGS
Warrior
Kings is the ultimate in the evolution of the real time strategy game.
A next generation medieval fantasy, a true 3D RTS allows gamers to create
and train their own army, oversee their economy, conduct espionage, fend
off dark forces by evil, wage war – in short, become a King. In
development
by UK-based Black Cactus, Warrior Kings allow players to command battalions
in magnificent arrays as easily as a single unit using their revolutionary
Battlefield Enhanced Simulation Technology (BEST). The game features
a massive single player campaign, giving hours of play as well as an
active/passive LAN/Internet play with up to sixteen players a game. The
game is due to ship in early 2001.
GUNMAN
CHRONICLES
Gunman
Chronicles is a fast-paced futuristic 3D-first person shooter based on
the Half-Life engine, originally created by Valve Software LLC. It is a
stand-alone PC game and offers a completely new
experience, taking place in a universe
unfamiliar to Half-Life veterans. The game features five unexplored
planets, and a variety of habitats for enemies. There are hundreds
of realistic new textures and fantastic architecture making the levels
in Gunman Chronicles some of the best ever seen. In development by ReWolf,
Gunman chronicles also showcases all new monsters, configurable weapons,
vehicles players can drive, and original sound and music. It will be
available for the PC this fall.
Sierra
On-Line, Inc. (www.sierra.com) is one of the original developers and largest
worldwide publishers of interactive entertainment and productivity software.
Sierra is a division of Havas Interactive, a global leader in interactive
content, and is one of the world’s largest publishers of
education,
entertainment and home productivity software. Its divisions, Blizzard
Entertainment(r), Coktel, Knowledge Adventure(r), Sierra(tm) and Flipside.com(tm)
are famous for releasing critically acclaimed and award winning
titles. Havas has operations in the US and in Europe and is a subsidiary
of the French publishing house Havas, part of Vivendi Communications.
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