Sierra™ Rolls Into E3 with A Lineup Set To Impress Beyond The Imagination.
Building on the success of an award-winning year, Sierra On-Line Inc. today announced its showcase of titles for this year's E3.
Sierra™ Rolls Into E3 with A Lineup Set To Impress Beyond The Imagination.
Titles to include much-anticipated games and productivity software, along with a newly expanded presence in the console arena
Bellevue, WA (May 11, 2000) - Building on the success of an award-winning year, Sierra On-Line Inc. today announced its showcase of titles for this year's E3. Sierra™ will feature the best and brightest from all its divisions, rolling out exciting new products from Sierra Studios™, Sierra Attractions™ and SierraHome™ and including an enhanced line-up of games for console platforms.
The achievements of 1999 award-winners such as Half-Life® and Homeworld® have worked together with the continuing success of such classic franchises as YOU DON'T KNOW JACK® and the Hoyle® series to strongly maintain Sierra's role as a leading player in the game industry. SierraHome's latest releases from the Generations®, Print Artist™, and Complete LandDesigner® product families have also contributed to Sierra's key positioning, leading the company to the forefront of the productivity market. Riding this momentum with two out of the top five most-anticipated titles under development,* Sierra is set to dazzle the competition at the upcoming E3 with new technologies and an expanded product line.
Among the groundbreaking titles from Sierra Studios is TRIBES™ 2, the ultimate team-based action experience developed with tremendous innovations to the teamplay and tactical elements that made 1999's Starsiege™ TRIBES revered by gamers and media alike. TRIBES 2 will blow gamers away with its exciting array of new features powered by a state of the art 3D engine for the most advanced graphics. With Arcanum™, Sierra Studios is poised to bring the role-playing game (RPG) genre to a new level of realism and gameplay. This multiplayer PC game combines technology and magic in its play, allowing gamers a unique experience with the highest degree of replayablity. Another much anticipated title is Homeworld®: Cataclysm, the next episode in the Homeworld Universe. Following in the tradition of last year's PC Game of the Year (PC Gamer, March 2000), Homeworld: Cataclysm will extend the revolutionary gameplay with 17 completely new missions based on an all-new story, complemented by features such as 18 new ships and the ability to upgrade armadas.
Sierra Studios will also be showcasing Ground Control™, the upcoming real-time strategy game played out in a stunning 3D world in which players will discover that the art of battle is the key to success. Empire Earth™, an epic game spanning 500,000 years, adds to the anticipation as the latest and greatest from Rick Goodman, the lead designer for the best-selling and critically acclaimed strategy game Age of Empires™. Rounding out the Studios lineup are NASCAR® Racing 4, Zeus™: Master of Olympus™ and the Half-Life Universe, including Half-Life MODs and the exciting new Half-Life: Dreamcast™. This new console version of Half-Life is set to be even more extraordinary than the PC-version, which has garnered over 50 Game of the Year awards from around the world.
Sierra Attractions joins the round up by bringing more games to console than ever before. YOU DON'T KNOW JACK® Volume 2 for PlayStation® promises to deliver more trivia hilarity with a new episodic structure, a new question type and new 3D art and music. This favorite irreverent quiz show party game is guaranteed to please with 50 game show episodes from which the player has to choose. Also being shown are two favorites from the ever-popular Hoyle® franchise, guaranteed to offer endless gaming fun. Hoyle® Card Games for Game Boy® Color offers fun for the whole family with eight popular card games including Crazy 8's, Hearts, Spades, Solitaire, Go Fish, Old Maid, Gin Rummy and Cribbage. The top-selling PC casino game** comes to console with Hoyle® Casino for Game Boy® Color and will also provide the easy-to-use interface, quality graphics, realistic sound, game-customization and attention to fun and gaming rules that are so familiar to Hoyle fans. Sierra Attractions will also feature 3-D Ultra™ Pinball: Thrill Ride for Game Boy® Color, with thirteen unique pinball tables based on the thrills and chills of favorite amusement-park rides.
SierraHome will be adding to its tradition of phenomenal titles by unveiling its much-anticipated new release, Hallmark® Card Studio™ Deluxe. This software will combine store-quality greeting cards with SierraHome's award-winning software to make it easier than ever to create customized Hallmark greeting cards on the home computer. Other popular titles from SierraHome's publishing family will include Print Artist™ Grande Suite 8.0 and the new Print Artist PhotoExpert™. Adding to the lineup is Generations® Grande Suite 8.0 family tree software, as well as Complete LandDesigner® 3D Design Collection 6.0 and CompleteHome® 3D Design Collection 2.0, the latest from the line of popular home and garden improvement products. The MasterCook™ family is represented by The Best of MasterCook™, with iStyle™ Personal Makeover completing the roster for SierraHome.
Sierra On-Line, Inc. (http://www.sierra.com/) is one of the original developers and largest worldwide publishers of interactive entertainment and productivity software. Sierra is a division of Havas Interactive, a global leader in interactive content, and is one of the world's largest publishers of education, entertainment and home productivity software. Its divisions, Blizzard®, Coktel, Knowledge Adventure®, Sierra™ and Flipside.com™ are famous for releasing critically acclaimed and award winning titles. Havas has operations in the US and in Europe and is a subsidiary of the French publishing house Havas, part of Vivendi Communications.
Titles to include much-anticipated games and productivity software, along with a newly expanded presence in the console arena
Bellevue, WA (May 11, 2000) - Building on the success of an award-winning year, Sierra On-Line Inc. today announced its showcase of titles for this year's E3. Sierra™ will feature the best and brightest from all its divisions, rolling out exciting new products from Sierra Studios™, Sierra Attractions™ and SierraHome™ and including an enhanced line-up of games for console platforms.
The achievements of 1999 award-winners such as Half-Life® and Homeworld® have worked together with the continuing success of such classic franchises as YOU DON'T KNOW JACK® and the Hoyle® series to strongly maintain Sierra's role as a leading player in the game industry. SierraHome's latest releases from the Generations®, Print Artist™, and Complete LandDesigner® product families have also contributed to Sierra's key positioning, leading the company to the forefront of the productivity market. Riding this momentum with two out of the top five most-anticipated titles under development,* Sierra is set to dazzle the competition at the upcoming E3 with new technologies and an expanded product line.
Among the groundbreaking titles from Sierra Studios is TRIBES™ 2, the ultimate team-based action experience developed with tremendous innovations to the teamplay and tactical elements that made 1999's Starsiege™ TRIBES revered by gamers and media alike. TRIBES 2 will blow gamers away with its exciting array of new features powered by a state of the art 3D engine for the most advanced graphics. With Arcanum™, Sierra Studios is poised to bring the role-playing game (RPG) genre to a new level of realism and gameplay. This multiplayer PC game combines technology and magic in its play, allowing gamers a unique experience with the highest degree of replayablity. Another much anticipated title is Homeworld®: Cataclysm, the next episode in the Homeworld Universe. Following in the tradition of last year's PC Game of the Year (PC Gamer, March 2000), Homeworld: Cataclysm will extend the revolutionary gameplay with 17 completely new missions based on an all-new story, complemented by features such as 18 new ships and the ability to upgrade armadas.
Sierra Studios will also be showcasing Ground Control™, the upcoming real-time strategy game played out in a stunning 3D world in which players will discover that the art of battle is the key to success. Empire Earth™, an epic game spanning 500,000 years, adds to the anticipation as the latest and greatest from Rick Goodman, the lead designer for the best-selling and critically acclaimed strategy game Age of Empires™. Rounding out the Studios lineup are NASCAR® Racing 4, Zeus™: Master of Olympus™ and the Half-Life Universe, including Half-Life MODs and the exciting new Half-Life: Dreamcast™. This new console version of Half-Life is set to be even more extraordinary than the PC-version, which has garnered over 50 Game of the Year awards from around the world.
Sierra Attractions joins the round up by bringing more games to console than ever before. YOU DON'T KNOW JACK® Volume 2 for PlayStation® promises to deliver more trivia hilarity with a new episodic structure, a new question type and new 3D art and music. This favorite irreverent quiz show party game is guaranteed to please with 50 game show episodes from which the player has to choose. Also being shown are two favorites from the ever-popular Hoyle® franchise, guaranteed to offer endless gaming fun. Hoyle® Card Games for Game Boy® Color offers fun for the whole family with eight popular card games including Crazy 8's, Hearts, Spades, Solitaire, Go Fish, Old Maid, Gin Rummy and Cribbage. The top-selling PC casino game** comes to console with Hoyle® Casino for Game Boy® Color and will also provide the easy-to-use interface, quality graphics, realistic sound, game-customization and attention to fun and gaming rules that are so familiar to Hoyle fans. Sierra Attractions will also feature 3-D Ultra™ Pinball: Thrill Ride for Game Boy® Color, with thirteen unique pinball tables based on the thrills and chills of favorite amusement-park rides.
SierraHome will be adding to its tradition of phenomenal titles by unveiling its much-anticipated new release, Hallmark® Card Studio™ Deluxe. This software will combine store-quality greeting cards with SierraHome's award-winning software to make it easier than ever to create customized Hallmark greeting cards on the home computer. Other popular titles from SierraHome's publishing family will include Print Artist™ Grande Suite 8.0 and the new Print Artist PhotoExpert™. Adding to the lineup is Generations® Grande Suite 8.0 family tree software, as well as Complete LandDesigner® 3D Design Collection 6.0 and CompleteHome® 3D Design Collection 2.0, the latest from the line of popular home and garden improvement products. The MasterCook™ family is represented by The Best of MasterCook™, with iStyle™ Personal Makeover completing the roster for SierraHome.
Sierra On-Line, Inc. (http://www.sierra.com/) is one of the original developers and largest worldwide publishers of interactive entertainment and productivity software. Sierra is a division of Havas Interactive, a global leader in interactive content, and is one of the world's largest publishers of education, entertainment and home productivity software. Its divisions, Blizzard®, Coktel, Knowledge Adventure®, Sierra™ and Flipside.com™ are famous for releasing critically acclaimed and award winning titles. Havas has operations in the US and in Europe and is a subsidiary of the French publishing house Havas, part of Vivendi Communications.
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