ACCLAIM SPORTS TO KICK SOME ASPHALT WITH ‘URBAN FREESTYLE SOCCER’ FOR NEXT-GENERATION SYSTEMS
 

First Ever 4-on-4, Arcade-Style Street Soccer Game Debuts on Next-Generation Systems, Featuring Special Moves, Power-Ups, Urban Environments and Roughneck Teams

E3, LOS ANGELES, CA, May 13, 2003 – Eliminating the need for a referee to pull a red card during a heated match, Acclaim Sports, a division of Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ.SC: AKLM), today unveiled Urban Freestyle Soccer™, a no-holds-barred, 4-on-4, arcade-style street soccer game.  Urban Freestyle Soccer takes the world’s most popular sport back to its street roots with gang-style teams competing against their rivals for the right to lay claim to their home turf. Urban Freestyle Soccer will feature special player moves, combos, power-ups and playing fields set on the hard blacktop of the city.

“Soccer has the highest participation rate of any sport in the world today,” said David Knies, Director of Acclaim Sports.  “We’re taking a fresh approach with Urban Freestyle Soccer by moving the game off of the grass and onto the streets, and infusing it with fast and addictive arcade-style gameplay that will appeal to the masses and soccer fans alike.”

Urban Freestyle Soccer includes:

• First-ever 4-on-4, arcade-style street soccer gameplay;

• 10 gang-style teams, each with their own home playing fields and theme music;

• Five hard-hitting game modes: Home Turf, Versus Mode, Freestyle, Street Challenge, Training plus Mini-Games;

• Over 50 players, each with individual catch phrases, tricks, combos and special moves;

• Supercharged “Netbuster” power-up tricks for record-breaking high scores;

• Dynamic, two-layered combo system which earns team points;

• Visually stunning urban environments with objects and boundaries that provide unique home field advantages.

Urban Freestyle Soccer will be available this fall across the next-generation systems at suggested retail prices to be determined.  For more information on this game, please visit www.acclaim.com.  Acclaim's complete showcase of products will be featured at E3 in Los Angeles, CA at booth #152 in the Concourse Hall.

About Acclaim Entertainment

Based in Glen Cove, N.Y., Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., is a worldwide developer, publisher and mass marketer of software for use with interactive entertainment game consoles including those manufactured by Nintendo, Sony Computer Entertainment and Microsoft Corporation as well as personal computer hardware systems.  Acclaim owns and operates five studios located in the United States and the United Kingdom, and publishes and distributes its software through its subsidiaries in North America, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Spain.  The Company uses regional distributors worldwide.  Acclaim also distributes entertainment software for other publishers worldwide, publishes software gaming strategy guides and issues "special edition" comic magazines periodically. Acclaim's corporate headquarters are in Glen Cove, New York and Acclaim's common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ.SC under the symbol AKLM.  For more information please visit our website at www.acclaim.com.

The statements contained in this release which are not historical facts, are "forward-looking statements." Acclaim cautions readers of this press release that a number of important factors could cause Acclaim's actual future results to differ materially from those expressed in any such forward- looking statements. These important factors, including, without limitation, the financial strength of the interactive entertainment industry, dependence on new product introductions and the ability to maintain the scheduling of such introductions, technological changes, dependence on major platform manufacturers and other factors that could affect Acclaim, are described in Acclaim's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2002, and Acclaim's subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, all of which were filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers of this press release are referred to such filings.

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