First Ever 4-on-4, Arcade-Style Street Soccer Game Debuts on Next-Generation
Systems, Featuring Special Moves, Power-Ups, Urban Environments and Roughneck
Teams
LOS ANGELES, May 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- E3 -- Eliminating the need
for a referee to pull a red card during a heated match, Acclaim Sports, a
division of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKLM), today unveiled Urban
Freestyle Soccer(TM), a no-holds-barred, 4-on-4, arcade-style street soccer
game. Urban Freestyle Soccer takes the world's most popular sport back to its
street roots with gang-style teams competing against their rivals for the
right to lay claim to their home turf. Urban Freestyle Soccer will feature
special player moves, combos, power-ups and playing fields set on the hard
blacktop of the city.
"Soccer has the highest participation rate of any sport in the world
today," said David Knies, Director of Acclaim Sports. "We're taking a fresh
approach with Urban Freestyle Soccer by moving the game off of the grass and
onto the streets, and infusing it with fast and addictive arcade-style
gameplay that will appeal to the masses and soccer fans alike."
Urban Freestyle Soccer includes:
-- First-ever 4-on-4, arcade-style street soccer gameplay;
-- 10 gang-style teams, each with their own home playing fields and theme
music;
-- Five hard-hitting game modes: Home Turf, Versus Mode, Freestyle,
Street Challenge, Training plus Mini-Games;
-- Over 50 players, each with individual catch phrases, tricks, combos
and special moves;
-- Supercharged "Netbuster" power-up tricks for record-breaking high
scores;
-- Dynamic, two-layered combo system which earns team points;
-- Visually stunning urban environments with objects and boundaries that
provide unique home field advantages.
Urban Freestyle Soccer will be available this fall across the
next-generation systems at suggested retail prices to be determined. For more
information on this game, please visit http://www.acclaim.com. Acclaim's complete
showcase of products will be featured at E3 in Los Angeles, CA at booth #152
in the Concourse Hall.
About Acclaim Entertainment
Based in Glen Cove, N.Y., Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., is a 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 five studios located in the
United States and the United Kingdom, 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 periodically. 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.
The statements contained in this release which are not historical facts,
are "forward-looking statements." Acclaim cautions readers of this press
release that a number of important factors could cause Acclaim's actual future
results to differ materially from those expressed in any such forward-looking
statements. These important factors, including, without limitation, the
financial strength of the interactive entertainment industry, dependence on
new product introductions and the ability to maintain the scheduling of such
introductions, technological changes, dependence on major platform
manufacturers and other factors that could affect Acclaim, are described in
Acclaim's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 31,
2002, and Acclaim's subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, all of which
were filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers
of this press release are referred to such filings.
Contact:
Alan B. Lewis Matthew Schlosberg
Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
(516) 656-5000 (516) 656-5000
alewis@acclaim.com mschlosberg@acclaim.com
SOURCE Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
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CONTACT:
Alan B. Lewis, +1-516-656-5000,
alewis@acclaim.com; or Matthew Schlosberg, +1-516-656-5000,
mschlosberg@acclaim.com, both of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
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