Topic: Activision Goes Paintballing

[Karl Castaneda #2]

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.