CRAVE TO RELEASE NINTENDO GAMECUBE & Xbox

VERSIONS OF FUTURE TACTICS: THE UPRISING

Game Blends RPG With Action/Adventure

LOS ANGELES, CA - January 28, 2004 -Crave Entertainment, a leading

publisher of console videogames, announced today that it will release of

Future Tactics: The Uprising, an all-new action/role-playing game for the

Xbox? video game system from Microsoft and Nintendo GameCube. Crave

recently announced that it would release Future Tactics: The Uprising for

the PlayStation?2 computer entertainment system. All three versions of

Future Tactics: The Uprising will be available in the first quarter of 2004.

Packed with action, Future Tactics is a turn-based tactical RPG that looks

and feels like an action/platform game. Built around a highly complex

turn-based battle engine, the adventure showcases a single-player Story

Mode, as well as a two-player Battle Mode. The plot is set in the not too

distant future, when Earth as we know it has succumbed to a race of

extra-dimensional creatures. Now the final hope for restoring order to the

planet rests on the shoulders of a young boy, his sister and a rag-tag

assembly of unlikely warriors.

Future Tactics: The Uprising features:

- 18 stylized and high-polygon characters interacting in rich, full 3D

environments

- Unique, number-free turn-based tactical combat system designed to keep

players immersed in the action, not the stats

- 19 action-packed, highly intense levels waiting to be conquered

- Massively deformable terrain. Landscape can be permanently destroyed,

leaving behind craters and canyons.

- Compelling storyline told through fully animated and voiced cut scenes

- Two-player customizable battle mode lets gamers tweak handicaps, power-ups

and victory conditions

- Experience point system allows custom building of team members, allocating

upgrades as players see fit

- Boot Camp tutorial mode allows novice players to learn good tactics right

away

Scheduled for release in March 2004, Future Tactics: The Uprising will be

available for the Xbox , Nintendo GameCube and the PlayStation 2 computer

entertainment system.