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Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. Dashes Into Retail With 'Dakar 2: The World's Ultimate Rally(TM)'
The World's Most Challenging Rally Race Arrives on Xbox(TM)
GLEN COVE, N.Y., Jun 19, 2003 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Racing full speed through the world's most treacherous and desolate lands, Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKLM), today announced that it has shipped Dakar 2: The World's Ultimate Rally(TM) for the Xbox(TM) video game system from Microsoft. A rough-and-tumble ride through 7,000 miles of the most turbulent environments in the world, Dakar 2: The World's Ultimate Rally offers high-speed arcade action that captures the thrill of the famous Paris-Dakar Rally. Players can choose from a vast assortment of licensed trucks, cars and motorcycles, as they compete against other drivers and nature's elements that block their path to victory.
"Competitors in the real Paris Dakar Rally put their lives on the line every year in an effort to gain off-road rally supremacy," said Ben Fischbach, Brand Director for Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. "Dakar 2: The World's Ultimate Rally captures all of the adrenaline-infused elements of this death-defying race, and enables gamers to experience it from the safety of their own homes."
Dakar 2: The World's Ultimate Rally includes:
-- Fully updated licensed vehicle roster for 2003 -- monstrous trucks,
predatory cars and lightning-quick motorcycles;
-- All new level of environmental interaction, including crazed
spectators, wild animals, dangerous explosives and more;
-- 12 massive interactive environments, including quaint French villas,
dense Moroccan forests and vast African deserts;
-- Arcade rally action, featuring tighter controls, faster cars and more
traffic;
-- Customizable vehicle types, allowing players to alter their vehicle's
suspension, tires and more to create the ultimate off road racing
machine;
-- Real-time vehicle damage that will affect the performance of players'
vehicles, including smashed windshields, broken axles and crushed
chassis.
Dakar 2 is currently available for the Xbox(TM) and Nintendo GameCube(TM), each at suggested retail prices of $29.99 and $19.99, respectively. For more information on this game, please visit www.acclaim.com.
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, Australia, 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 www.acclaim.com.
Xbox (www.xbox.com/) is Microsoft's future-generation video game system that delivers the most powerful games experiences ever. Xbox empowers game artists by giving them the technology to fulfill their creative visions as never before, creating games that blur the lines between fantasy and reality. Xbox is now available in the continents of North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Xbox is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
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 March 31, 2003, 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.
Alan B. Lewis, alewis@acclaim.com, Matthew Schlosberg
mschlosberg@acclaim.com, both of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., +1-516-656-5000
www.acclaim.com
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