Crave to Release Future Tactics: The Uprising for GameCube, Xbox

Game Blends RPG With Action/Adventure

LOS ANGELES, CA - January 28XX, 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 GameCubeä and the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system.

About Crave Entertainment:
Based in Los Angeles, California, Crave Entertainment is a privately held publisher of videogame entertainment products. Crave produces games for the major console platforms including Game Boy® Advance, Nintendo GameCube™, the PlayStation® game console, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, the Xbox® video game system from Microsoft, and for the PC. For more information about Crave Entertainment, please visit http://www.cravegames.com.

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