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OUTWIT, OUTGUN AND OUT-DRIVE RIVALS TO SURVIVE THE CARNAGE IN ROADKILL™

 

Midway’s RoadKill Provides Players With a Multitude of Gaming Options, While Stirring Up Havoc in this Dynamic World

 

CHICAGO – October 13, 2003 – Midway Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY), a leading software industry publisher and developer, announced today that RoadKill, a mission-based, post-apocalyptic combat driving game, ships today for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system and the Xbox® video game system from Microsoft.

Set in a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by a plague and ruled by gangs, RoadKill allows players to unleash havoc in 40 vehicles with weapons such as machine guns, guided missiles and homing rockets. Assuming the role of the mercenary, players must build a gang following as they battle rival gangs, city guards and anyone else that gets in the way.

“RoadKill is an intense gaming experience set to an entertaining soundtrack with a radio system featuring licensed songs and seven hours of original programming that changes as gamers adventure through different cities,” said Helene Sheeler, vice president of marketing, Midway.

RoadKill drops players into instantaneous battle with 30 core story-driven missions with cinematic cut-scenes and numerous side missions and mini-games. The missions place the player into the three cities of Hell County – Lava Falls, Blister Canyon and Paradise City. The game’s dynamic reputation system determines how the world reacts to the way players perform missions, kill and maim citizens, destroy enemy vehicles and build alliances with the gangs of Hell County. Players in RoadKill collect salvaged parts – which upgrade the 40 vehicles with items such as nitrous thrust and armor plating – to unlock secret features and help explore the world in a search for hidden blueprints. 

 

RoadKill Key Features:

  • Car Combat – Select from 40 unique, post-apocalyptic-style vehicles to experience the ultimate ride in vehicular combat.

  • Potent Firepower – More than 15 powerful armaments to unleash upon your enemies.

  • Drive to Survive – Destroy your opponents throughout three enormous living and destructible cities.

  • Detailed Missions – Engage in more than 30 core story-driven missions and numerous side missions and mini-games as you roam the streets and instigate anarchy.

  • Interactive Chaos – Run over, impale, shoot and splatter both innocent and armed pedestrians in multiple ways, inciting riots.

  • Dynamic Reputation System – Gain the necessary reputation to work your way up from a rookie to an executioner and develop a gang following that will provide additional protection to your home turf.

  • Multiplayer – Engage in the ultimate test of vehicular combat: multiplayer Death Match Mode.

  • Post-Apocalyptic Earth – Face-off against seven rival gangs, killing the members of some while gaining the respect of others.

  • Unlock Features – Collect salvaged parts from destroyed vehicles to purchase items such as nitrous thrust, speed boost and armor plating.

  • Search and Recover – Participate in scavenger hunts and find the blueprints necessary to build the ultimate weapons and vehicles.

  • Rock ‘n’ Roll – Dynamic radio system forewarns of weather events, gives mission updates and allows users to tune into a variety of hits, from rock to easy listening.

 

Midway Games Inc. is a leading developer, publisher and marketer of interactive entertainment software. Midway videogames are available for play on all major videogame platforms including the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube™ and Game Boy® Advance.

 

For more information about Midway Games visit www.midway.com.

 

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ROADKILL is a trademark of Midway Home Entertainment Inc. MIDWAY is a registered trademark of Midway Amusement Games, LLC.  “PlayStation” and the “PS” Family logo are registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.  Xbox is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Nintendo GameCube is a trademark of Nintendo. Ó 2001 Nintendo. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies.

 

"This press release contains forward-looking statements concerning future business conditions and the outlook for Midway Games Inc. (the "Company") based on currently available information that involve risks and uncertainties. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as a result of these risks and uncertainties, 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 risks more fully described under "Item 1. Business - Risk Factors" in Amendment No. 1 to our Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2002, and in the other more recent filings made by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.



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