Confront the X-COM(R) Alien Threat in an Immersive First-Person
Point-of-View Action Game
ATLANTA, Electronic Entertainment Expo, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- MicroProse,
Inc. (Nasdaq: MPRS), a worldwide interactive entertainment company, announced
today the development of the next PC game in the best-selling, award-winning
X-COM series, X-COM Alliance(TM). X-COM Alliance is the fifth game in the X-
COM(R) series combining fast action alien combat with in-depth strategy to
create an exhilarating and addicting multiplayer gaming experience. Utilizing
the Unreal(TM) 3-D engine, X-COM Alliance is being developed for Windows(R)
95/98 in the MicroProse Chipping Sodbury, England Studio.
"In X-COM Alliance, the player will finally be able to fight the invading
aliens in a first-person combat environment," said Tom Nichols, senior
director of product marketing at MicroProse. "Using the rich 3-D graphic
environment of the Unreal 3-D engine, MicroProse is able to create a game that
mixes action, strategy and combat in the tradition of the X-COM series."
The year is 2062. X-COM is returning to the ruins of the alien invasion
base at Cydonia on Mars. Their mission: to search for any technology
overlooked at the end of the first alien war fought in X-COM UFO Defense(TM)
(released as UFO Enemy Unknown(TM) in Europe). As X-COM reaches orbit around
Mars, an abandoned dimension gate flings them 60 light-years from Earth into
the middle of a war between X-COM's original foes and a race called the
Ascidians. Attempting to return home, X-COM allies join with the Ascidians to
defeat the alien threat.
X-COM Alliance is a first-person point-of-view action game that plunges
the player into the X-COM universe to take on the alien threat. The explosive
battles take place on numerous unique 3-D worlds in a 15-mission fight to kill
the aliens and find your way back to Earth. Utilizing a new and exciting view
of combat, in which you can also see the first-person view of up to four
troopers in your X-COM strike team, the player commands an X-COM squad as they
fight their way to the enemies' home world to prevent the decimation of their
allies, the Ascidians. On board the X-COM ship, the Patton, the player
controls the resources scavenged from the alien craft during combat missions,
handpicking squads and arming them with the latest technology researched from
both alien and human technologies.
MicroProse, Inc. is a leading developer and publisher of interactive
entertainment software for use on CD-ROM-based personal computers. The
company has five development studios located in Alameda, California; Hunt
Valley, Maryland; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Austin, Texas; and Chipping
Sodbury, England. Products are available nationally and internationally and
are sold through major distributors, retailers and mass merchants. Product
and company information are available for download from the MicroProse World
Wide Web site at http://www.microprose.com.
SOURCE MicroProse, Inc.
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CONTACT:
Kathy Sanguinetti of MicroProse,
510-864-4474, ksanguinetti@microprose.com; or Linda Thurmond,
510-653-3010, lthurmond@earthlink.net, or Jenny Rosas,
310-473-4147, jenny_rosas@bgh.com, both of Bender, Goldman &
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