ACTIVISION AND RAVEN SOFTWARE’S SOLDIER OF FORTUNE II: DOUBLE HELIX HAS GONE GOLD AND PREPARES FOR A TOUR OF DUTY ON RETAIL SHELVES NATIONWIDE

SANTA MONICA, CA – May 13, 2002 – Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) and Raven Software’s Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix has gone gold and is on its way to manufacturing.  The sequel to the award winning Soldier of Fortune, Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix drops players into the ranks of America’s shadow soldiers in a gritty and intense battle for survival. Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix is rated M for MATURE (17 and above) for animated blood, violence and gore.

In Soldier of Fortune II players once again assume the role of John Mullins, a military consultant working for the top-secret agency known as The Shop.  In the game, players must make use of stealth, as well as firepower, to tackle a wide-range of missions including hostage rescue, intelligence gathering and search-and-destroy.  To fully immerse players in the experience, Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix brings the grittiness of combat to the PC like never before with incredibly detailed skeletal animations that enable lifelike character movements and per pixel hit locations for ultra realism.

Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix also advances the genre with the introduction of a new random mission generator technology for both single and multiplayer.  By entering variables into to game’s random mission generator players can create millions of single or multiplayer maps on-the-fly for endless replayability.  In addition to the RMG maps, multiplayer in Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix offers nine professionally designed maps, more than 100 unique model/skin combinations and four different game modes including and deathmatch, team deathmatch, elimination and infiltration. 

Based in Madison, Wisconsin, Raven Software is a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision, Inc.   Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision, Inc. is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and leisure products.  Founded in 1979, Activision posted revenues of $786 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2002.

Activision maintains operations in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, and the Netherlands.  More information about Activision and its products can be found on the company's World Wide Web site, which is located at www.activision.com.

The statements contained in this release that are not historical facts are “forward-looking statements.”  The Company cautions readers of this press release that a number of important factors could cause Activision’s actual future results to differ materially from those expressed in any such forward-looking statements.  These important factors, and other factors that could affect Activision, are described in Activision’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2002, which was filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.  Readers of this press release are referred to such filings.

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Soldier of Fortune® II: Double Helix © 2001 Activision, Inc. Developed by Raven Software Corporation. Published and distributed by Activision, Inc. Activision® is a registered trademark of Activision, Inc. Soldier of Fortune® is a registered trademark of Omega Group, Ltd. This product contains software technology licensed from id Software, Inc. ("id Technology"). id Technology © 1999-2001 id Software, Inc. All rights reserved. All other trademarks and trade names are properties of their respective owners.

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