Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball will be released across multiple platforms.
Activision to Launch Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball MAX'D This Fall Across Multiple Game Platforms
Santa Monica, Ca. - May 17, 2005 - Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), WXP and
paintball professional Greg Hastings announced today that Greg Hastings'
Tournament Paintball MAX'D will launch across multiple platforms this fall.
Building on the intense speed of Greg Hasting's Tournament Paintball, a 2004
sleeper hit with more than 100,000 registered players on Xbox Live, the new
title will feature gameplay enhancements including breakout play calling,
multiplayer split-screen action for up to four players in a co-op and
head-to-head play, and more. Greg Hasting's Tournament Paintball MAX'D is
not yet rated by the ESRB and is slated for release this fall.
Game developer WXP will provide a sneak preview of some new gameplay
features, including the Breakout feature set in Activision's booth #1224 in
the South Hall at the 2005 E3 Expo. The groundbreaking Breakout feature set
allows gamers to direct their AI teammates where to go and where to shoot at
the start of the game. This is the first time in a first-person shooter
console game that gamers will be able to command their teammates in such
detail at the start of the game, delivering more intensity, tactics and
speed.
Following are details regarding Breakout:
Breakout Move, allowing gamers to diagram the initial movement of their AI
teammates at the start of a game.
Break Shooting, providing players the ability to select whether their AI
teammates shoot or run to their bunker at the beginning of a game.
Sweet Spot enabling gamers to direct the shooting of AI teammates towards
critical areas as the game begins.
The result is more intensity, more tactics and more speed - and that's only
the beginning for Greg Hasting's Tournament Paintball MAX'D. Featuring more
new field locations, and over 100 new field layouts, players will use a
combination of speed and tactics to take out their opponents, including 14
pros from Keely Watson and Chris LaSoya to Greg Hastings.
Innovative features wouldn't be complete without a groundbreaking
soundtrack. The Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball MAX'D soundtrack is
setting a new standard for music in video games by featuring two new songs
recorded by multi-platinum selling recording artists working together for
the first time ever. DJ Lethal (Limp Bizkit) and B-Real (Cypress Hill)
collaborated on a new hip-hop song entitled "Play for Real" specifically for
the soundtrack, and Chester Bennington (Linkin Park) performed guest vocals
on another track created by DJ Lethal which will also appear in the game.
3volution Productions is producing the soundtrack, with B-Real at the helm
as Executive Producer and industry veterans Raymond Herrera and Laddie Ervin
attached as Producers. B-Real and the soundtrack are just getting started,
with more tracks to be announced soon.
Greg Hasting's Tournament Paintball MAX'D will be available for current gen
consoles and handheld platforms.