Turok Evolution Launch Date Set

THE DINOSAUR HUNTER RETURNS TO
RECLAIM THE ACTION THRONE IN ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT, INC.’S ‘TUROK: EVOLUTION’

Video Game Icon Is Back In All-New
Epic Adventure of Treachery, Exploration and War; Eagerly-Anticipated Title from
World-Renowned Austin Studio Set to Launch Across All Next-Generation Systems on
‘Turok Bloody Sunday – 9-01-02’

E3, LOS ANGELES, CA, May 21, 2002 –
The dinosaur hunter has returned and is armed and ready to reclaim his crown as
the king of action video games, when Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ.SC:
AKLM), launches Turok(tm): Evolution(tm) across all next-generation systems on "Turok
Bloody Sunday – 9-01-02."

Developed by Acclaim’s world-renowned Austin Studio, Turok: Evolution is a
prequel to the blockbuster franchise that has generated more than $250 million
in sales worldwide. Featuring an entirely new game engine that was specifically
designed for the next-generation gaming systems, Turok: Evolution is an epic
adventure of treachery, exploration and war set against a backdrop of lush
jungles, mysterious temples and the most realistic and deadly array of dinosaurs
ever to be created in a video game. Acclaim will be supporting the title with a
multi-million dollar marketing campaign, including print, television,
in-theater, radio and online advertising; contests and sweepstakes, and
innovative retail and consumer product cross-promotions.

"Turok is known throughout the world as the premier first-person action icon,
having set the industry standard with its debut in 1997," said Edmond Sanctis,
President of Acclaim North America. "Turok: Evolution will revolutionize the
genre in every possible way – state-of-the-art development tools and engines,
ultra-realistic dinosaurs and environments, over-the-top weapons and an
incredible gameplay experience that will once again be the yardstick by which
all others are measured."

Turok: Evolution begins with our hero, Tal’Set fighting his nemesis Captain
Tobias Bruckner in 1886 Texas. During a major battle, a rift between their world
and the Lost Land opens and Tal’Set is sucked into it. Injured and near death,
he is nursed back to life by the natives of the River Village, a colony in
hiding from the Lost Land’s greatest threat – Lord Tyrannus and his reptilian
hordes. Tal’Set becomes a reluctant participant in the brutal war that is raging
in the Lost Land and is shocked to learn that Tyrannus has appointed a new
general to lead his armies – Tobias Bruckner!

Turok: Evolution will include many exciting features, including:

• Entirely new game engine built
  from the ground up to take full advantage of the next-generation hardware
  platforms;

• Stealth- and action- based
  gameplay directed by rich, character-driven storylines;

• The most advanced artificial
  intelligence ever in a FPS; enemies and dinosaurs react instinctively to
  environmental changes and combat situations;

• Ground-breaking Squad Dynamics
  System (S.D.S.) offers incredibly realistic enemy and allied squad A.I.,
  enabling troops to take cover, establish strategic positions and even
  surrender;

• Lush jungle environments, thriving
  with vast flora, natural water sources and indigenous life at every turn;
  

• More than 30 different types of
  prehistoric, insect, mammal and oceanic life forms, each with frightening and
  deadly realism;

• More than 30 weapons, including
  the all-new Gravity Disrupter Beam, Swarm Bore and Baby Nuke, each with unique
  traits and damage;

• For the first time ever in a Turok
  video game – flight missions enable players to soar through the skies on a
  fully-armed winged Quetzalcoatlus in air-to-ground and multiplayer battles;
  

• Scripted story events bring the
  Lost Land to life with stunning detail;

• Destructible objects and
  environments: shoot down trees onto enemies and collapse massive rock spires
  onto dinosaurs;

• Incredible multiplayer levels and
  modes, each filled with hours of action-packed gameplay;

• More than 3,000 sound effects
  recorded throughout the world, enhancing the realism of the game via Dolby
  Digital and Dolby Surround Sound.

Turok: Evolution has been rated
"Mature" by the Electronic Software Review Board, and will be available on
9-01-02 across all next-generation gaming platforms at suggested retail prices
to be determined. For more information about Turok: Evolution, please visit
http://www.turok.com. Acclaim’s complete
showcase of products will be featured at E3 in Los Angeles, CA at booth #1046 in
the South Hall.

About Acclaim Entertainment
Based in Glen Cove, N.Y., Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., is a leading worldwide
developer, publisher and mass marketer of software for use with interactive
entertainment game consoles including those manufactured by Nintendo, Sony
Computer Entertainment and Microsoft Corporation as well as personal computer
hardware systems. Acclaim owns and operates six studios located in the United
States and the United Kingdom which includes a motion capture and recording
studio in the U.S., and publishes and distributes its software through its
subsidiaries in North America, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Spain.
The Company uses regional distributors worldwide. Acclaim also distributes
entertainment software for other publishers worldwide, publishes software gaming
strategy guides and issues "special edition" comic magazines from time to time
to support its time valued brands, Turok and Shadow Man. Acclaim’s corporate
headquarters are in Glen Cove, New York and Acclaim’s common stock is publicly
traded on NASDAQ.SC under the symbol AKLM. For more information please visit our
website at http://www.acclaim.com.