Codemasters Uncovers Mission Details For Soldiers: Heroes of World War II

Innovative Game Play Features Expand Upon RTS Genre

New York, N.Y. – (April 8, 2004) – Codemasters, a leading global publisher of interactive entertainment, announced today additional details on the missions featured in Soldiers: Heroes of World War II, the company’s forthcoming real time strategy game.  Expanding upon trial and error genre styles, the game allows players to control individual components of forces and rewards initiative during crucial elements of game play.  Exclusively for PC/CD-ROM, Soldiers: Heroes of World War II invades store shelves June 2004.

With an exciting mix of third person action-packed missions set in realistic, fully destructible environments, Soldiers: Heroes of World War II improves upon the genre’s popular “select and direct” controls by enabling players to manipulate individual components of their forces.  Offering missions in an against the odds style, bold decisions and reckless heroics prove successful as the game offers several paths to victory in completing mission objectives.

In one instance, players are commissioned to destroy a lighthouse and prevent opposing forces from learning their current positions.  A variety of options exist to complete the mission, including using knives to remove enemy presence after swimming to shore or commanding a boat while utilizing torpedoes and an artillery gun.  At a later stage of the campaign, players are asked to steal an enemy plane.  Offering a variety of obstacles, the game presents an environment prime for diversity and loaded with replay value.

Soldiers: Heroes of World War II also dispenses with the “do it our way or fail” prescription for game play by rewarding individual initiative.  Players are encouraged to consider options carefully as often a smarter tactic awaits inclusion in the most successful plan of attack.  In each instance of play, enemy A.I. reacts to specific situations rather than by predetermined scripts, thus putting players squarely at the center of game play action.  Each item in the game is modeled precisely to its real world counterpart, including intricate firing characteristics of weapons and ammunition, detailed operating requirements for tanks and full damage physics for buildings.

Developed by Ukrainian company Best Way, Soldiers: Heroes of World War II, exclusively for PC/CD-ROM, releases June 2004.  For more information on Soldiers: Heroes of World War II, please visit www.codemasters.com/soldiers.

 

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KEY GAMEPLAY FEATURES

 

• The thrills of a 3D shooter with the depth of a real-time strategy game

• ‘Direct Control’ mechanic to jump right into the thick of the action

• Freedom to complete missions though different tactics, use anything in the game world

• Advanced AI: enemies will use formations, covering and ambush tactics

• More than 30 missions and a huge array of vehicles and weapons

• Fully destructible environment. Everything can be fully or partially destroyed

• Multiplayer: LAN and online (up to 16 players), co-op or adversarial
   

ABOUT CODEMASTERS

Codemasters is a global interactive entertainment company with offices in New York City, England, France, Spain, Holland and Germany.  Founded in the UK in 1986, Codemasters publishes award-winning software for the PC, next generation video game consoles and online gaming.  Codemasters develops original titles such as Operation Flashpoint (PC Game-of-the-year) and ToCA Race Driver, as well as games based on top licensed properties including American Idol, MTV Music Generator and IndyCar Series.  Additional information about Codemasters and its products can be found at www.codemasters.com.
 
ABOUT 1C COMPANY

1C Company specializes in the distribution, publishing and development of interactive entertainment products and business software. Founded in 1991 1C has become the leading Russian company publishing and distributing computer games in the former USSR.  1C Company is widely acknowledged as a game developer and has two internal studios.  Internal development projects include Konung Legends of the North, IL-2 Sturmovik, IL-2 Sturmovik: The Forgotten Battles and Wartime Command. 1C Company works as a publisher and producer with over 20 leading Russian independent development studios and has produced over 50 projects for PC, Xbox and PS2. More information about the company is available at http://int.games.1c.ru

ABOUT BEST WAY

The Ukrainian company Best Way was founded in 1991 and specialized in computer engineering, applied software, and networks. In 1999, Best Way launched a computer games development division. Its first commercial game project is Soldiers: Heroes Of World War II.

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