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Game Live Events Announces the "2002 Summer Preview Game Tour"
National 10-city tour to feature top Summer debuts and special ‘first look’ previews of Fall game titles
SAN FRANCISCO (July 2, 2002) – Game Live Events, the country’s leading producer of live video game and PC touring events, today announced their "2002 Summer Preview Game Tour". The 10-city tour begins on Saturday, July 6th in San Francisco, CA and runs through Sunday, August 4th in Dallas, TX. The tour will feature this Summer’s most anticipated video and PC game titles. Many of the tour’s featured titles are in current first stage launch, including Freekstyle™ from EA SPORTS BIG™, Smugglers Run Warzones from RockStar Games, Legion: The Legend of Excalibur™ and MLB™ Slugfest® 20-03 from Midway, Monster Jam: Maximum Destruction™ from Ubi Soft Entertainment and the Inner Sphere ‘Mech Pak, the latest addition to the award-winning MechWarrior 4 franchise from Microsoft Game Studios. The PC version of Grand Theft Auto™ 3 for PC is also featured on the tour.
The 2002 Summer Preview Tour will also feature playable game demos from many of the most exciting Fall releases such Worms Blast™, Rocky™, and Disney’s PK: Out of the Shadows from Ubi Soft, and TimeSplitters™ 2 from Eidos Interactive.
More than 20 titles will be featured on the 2002 National Summer Tour from publishing partners Electronic Arts, RockStar Games, Ubi Soft Entertainment, Midway, Eidos Interactive and Microsoft Game Studios. PC partners include Alienware PC, AMD, ATI Technologies Radeon 8500 Graphics Card and ProMedia™ speaker systems from Klipsch Audio Technologies.
The tour offers young adults, families and gamers the rare experience of sampling this season’s most anticipated titles for the first time, as well as preview unreleased demos from many Fall titles. "The tour is a true multi-platform experience. We are very pleased to be able to not only showcase the best Summer releases, but having several of our twenty titles being unreleased, never seen before Fall titles, makes this a very exciting presentation" said Antonio Capretta, CEO of Game Live Events.
The National 2002 Summer Tour will feature a state-of-the-art, 48-screen Interactive Viewing Screen GamePort system. PlayStation®2, Xbox and GameCube console games will be displayed on the tour. Alienware, the Official Tour PC, has supplied the tour with high speed PC’s featuring Radeon 8500 Graphic Cards and Klipsch Audio Speakers allowing for maximum exposure of all featured computer games. Admission is free and play is unlimited. For complete details of the tour, including tour locations, event times, and the latest list of games included on the tour, visit www.gameliveevents.com.
"2002 Summer Preview Game Tour" Schedule
Saturday, July 6 Hillsdale Shopping Center, San Mateo, CA, 12 to 9 PM
Sunday, July 7 Ontario Mills, Ontario, CA, 12 Noon to 7 PM
Saturday, July 13 Gurnee Mills, Gurnee, IL, 12 Noon to 9 PM
Sunday, July 14 Southpark Center, Strongsville, OH, 12 Noon to 6 PM
Saturday, July 20 Roosevelt Field, Garden City, NY, 12 Noon to 9 PM
Sunday, July 21 Franklin Mills, Philadelphia, PA, 12 Noon to 7 PM
Saturday, July 27 Tysons Corner Center, Mclean, VA, 12 Noon to 9 PM
Sunday, July 28 White Marsh Mall, Baltimore, MD, 12 Noon to 6 PM
Saturday, August 3 The Woodlands Mall, The Woodlands, TX, 12 to 9 PM
Sunday, August 4 The Parks at Arlington, Arlington, TX, 12 to 6 PM
PlayStation®2 Titles
Freekstyle™ (EA SPORTS BIG)
Grand Theft Auto™ 3 (RockStar Games)
MLB™ Slugfest® 20-03 (Midway Sports)
Monster Jam: Maximum Destruction™ (Ubi Soft Entertainment)
TimeSplitters™ 2 (Eidos Interactive)
Legion: The Legend of Excalibur™ (Midway)
Fireblade™ (Midway Games)
Medal of Honor Frontline™ (EA GAMES)
Triple Play™ 2002 (EA SPORTS)
Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® 2002 (EA SPORTS)
Sled Storm™ (EA SPORTS BIG)
Midnight Club Street Racing (RockStar Games)
Disney’s PK: Out of the Shadows (Ubi Soft Entertainment)
XBOX Titles
Rocky™ (Ubi Soft Entertainment)
RedCard™ 20-03 (Midway Sports)
Knockout Kings™ 2002 (EA SPORTS)
Triple Play™ 2002 (EA SPORTS)
James Bond 007 in...... Agent Under Fire™ (EA GAMES)
NINTENDO GAMECUBE Titles
Smugglers Run Warzones (RockStar Games)
Worms Blast™ (Ubi Soft Entertainment)
PC Titles
MechWarrior® 4: Vengeance & The Inner
Sphere Mech Pak (Microsoft Game Studios)
Grand Theft Auto™ 3 (RockStar Games)
Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone™ (EA GAMES)
Medal of Honor Allied Assault™ (EA GAMES)
