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SIERRA
STUDIOS AND VALVE ANNOUNCE HALF-LIFE:
COUNTER-STRIKE
New
Team-Based PC Game Featuring Several Top Half-Life MODs Bellevue,
WA (August 31, 2000) – Sierra Studios(tm) and Valve L.L.C. today announced
Half-Life: Counter-Strike, the largest multiplayer game offering in
one commercial product, combining all the elements of the Half-Life online
universe with new single- and multiplayer content. Half-Life: Counter-Strike
is a stand-alone PC game due to ship this fall with all of Valve’s
multiplayer content, three of the top MODs for Half-Life, and the #1 played
online action game*, Counter-Strike.
"Half-Life’s
online community is growing at a rate of over 500% per year -Counter-Strike
is a key part of our strategy to sustain that growth moving forward,"
said Gabe Newell, managing director of Valve L.L.C. "In addition to
offering the number one online action game as a stand-alone product, Half-Life:
Counter-Strike delivers all our online games in one package to gamers
who have not tried any of these leading online action games."
In
development by the Counter-Strike Team in conjunction with Valve, Half-Life:
Counter-Strike casts players as a member of either a terrorist or counter-terrorist
team. Each team has unique weapons and capabilities. The game
is played in a variety of scenarios with varying objectives, including rescue
missions, assassination, bomb diffusion, and more. More information on
Counter-Strike can be found through the official Web site at http://www.counter-strike.net/
.
In
addition to Counter-Strike, the entire Half-Life online experience is available
within this package including, Half-Life multiplayer, Team Fortress
Classic, and Half-Life: Opposing Force multiplayer. And finally, three
new MODs, created by some of the top-level designers within the Half-Life
community, are also featured. More information on Half-Life and its
MODs can be found at www.gameoftheyear.com.
Founded
in 1996, Valve develops entertainment software. Half-Life is Valve’s debut
title. Since its release in November 1998, Half-Life has won over 50 Game
of the Year Awards from publications that include PC Gamer, Computer Gaming
World, and CNET’s Gamecenter and has sold over 2 million units worldwide
on the PC. More information about Valve is available through the company’s
Web site at www.valvesoftware.com.
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.
*
According
to the leader board on www.gamespy.com
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