Award-Winning Futuristic Arcade Racer Returns With Trademark Blistering Speed,
All-New Gameplay Modes, Features, Weapons, Motorcycles and Controls
LOS ANGELES, May 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- E3 -- Breaking the sound
barrier and unleashing a futuristic two-wheeled assault on the next-generation
gaming systems, Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKLM), today unveiled
XGRA(TM): Extreme-G Racing Association. Developed by Acclaim Studios
Cheltenham, XGRA: Extreme-G Racing Association is the latest installment in
the Company's award-winning Extreme-G Racing brand that has sold more than 1.5
million units worldwide. Combining futuristic, high-speed motorcycle racing
and combat, XGRA: Extreme-G Racing Association will feature all new gameplay
modes, features, weapons, bikes, controls and unlockable content.
"The Extreme-G Racing brand continues to set new benchmarks with each
installment, and XGRA offers the most intense sense of speed and innovative
arsenal of weaponry in the history of our series," said Ben Fischbach, Brand
Director for Acclaim. "Building upon the core elements that have made this a
perennial favorite among the media and consumers, XGRA will deliver an
unparallelled futuristic racing experience."
XGRA: Extreme-G Racing Association includes:
* SiNN (Sports Interactive News Network) and the XGRA
Extreme Gravity Racing Association) create a future motor sport
unlike anything ever experienced;
* 8 different teams, all with unique histories, sponsors, and
rivalries;
* Variable missions and storylines that make each race part of a
larger career;
* A game structure designed to emulate a true motor sport season with
various classes and race types;
* Variety of different and completely modifiable vehicle types;
Wide range of characters, each with skills and statistics that
affect how they race;
* Rewards system that provides unlockable content, including new game
modes and tracks, faster bikes and character-enhancing cybernetic
implants;
* Environments that bring worlds to life, highlighted by variable
weather systems and uniquely constructed tracks and buildings;
* Interactive HUD that provides all relevant information during the
race, which can also be modified during gameplay;
* Destructible objects within the race tracks, including gas pipes,
bridges, and spectators can dramatically change the outcome of a
race;
* New weapons system that allows the player to easily select and use
weapons without fear of losing focus on the race.
XGRA: Extreme-G Racing Association will be available this summer 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
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CONTACT:
Alan B. Lewis, alewis@acclaim.com, or Matthew
Schlosberg, mschlosberg@acclaim.com, both of Acclaim
Entertainment, Inc., +1-516-656-5000
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