Midway Ships Dr. Muto

Midway Games Inc., a leading software industry publisher and developer, announced today that Dr. Muto, an all-new fully 3-D action-adventure videogame, has shipped for the Xbox as well as the Playstation 2. Dr. Muto is expected to ship for the Nintendo GameCube in December and for the Game Boy Advance in 2003.

Redefining the image of the proverbial “mad scientist,” players take on the role of Dr. Muto, a maniacal genius whose latest experiment accidentally destroyed his home planet, except for his laboratory. Now, the mad doctor must rebuild his decimated world by harvesting resources from other nearby planets, while dashing through a stylized universe — encountering deadly challenges, freakish monstrosities, and battling his arch nemesis, the evil Professor Burnital.

Gamers assume the role of Dr. Muto and forge through vast levels on four distinct planetscapes: from the junkyard world of Totltec, to the half-drowned water world of Aquem, through the smog-choked skies of Flotos, and finally the forbidden mines of Mazon. Armed with his newest invention — the Splizz-gun — Dr. Muto morphs himself into a variety of DNA spliced-up creatures including an alien-spider, miniature mouse and hulking gorilla. By morphing, Dr. Muto gains each creature’s abilities and physical attributes — such as clinging to webs, squeezing into tight spaces and breathing underwater — all to better crush, outwit and outlast his enemies.

“Once inside Dr. Muto’s insane world, gamers will go mad morphing and mutating into various creatures in the quest for universal supremacy over Dr. Muto’s arch nemesis,” said Helene Sheeler, vice president of marketing, Midway.