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Press Release: Europe: Michael Domke ( Online: John Coghlan USA: Sam Hertzler (Sam@bluebyte.com)
BLUE BYTE'S BATTLE ISLE: THE ANDOSIA WAR GOES GOLD!
New Gaming Genre Readies for November 24 Release Date
(Austin, Texas)--November 08, 2000--Popular entertainment software publisher, Blue Byte Software, has announced that its real-time and turn-based 3D strategy title, Battle Isle: The Andosia War, has gone gold. The conflict simulation will be available exclusively via Blue Byte DIRECT™ (www.bluebyte.com/us/store/index.htm) in the U.S. and Canada on November 24 priced $49.99 (£29.99 GBP). The game offers an innovative and enjoyable mixture of real-time and turn-based gameplay along with stunning visuals and atmospheric sound, and gamers who purchase Battle Isle: The Andosia War from Blue Byte DIRECT in the U.S. and Canada will receive a free Limited Edition Plantronics SR-1® Multimedia Headset worth $29.95.
Developed by Cauldron in Slovakia, Battle Isle: The Andosia War is Blue Byte's follow up to the award-winning Incubation (released in 1997). Set on the planet Chromos in the year 345 of the New Age during the Andosia War, this stunning title casts players as leaders of either the Chromian government's high-tech forces or the dangerous Children of Haris faction.
Forces at the disposal of the army leaders for the execution of military actions include humans, tanks, gunboats, inter-island missiles, and plasma artillery. The weather, the seasons, the time of day and even the tides play a key role in producing goods and planning tactics and strategy. Only quick and flexible planning, the skillful allocation of resources and good judgment will result in success!
A fantastic Battle Isle: The Andosia War demo containing three tutorial missions and an exclusive new scenario can be found at the Blue Byte Game Channel™, www.bluebyte.net/battleisle-e/default.asp?id=.
The BATTLE ISLE series In 1991, Blue Byte Software released their first strategy title, Battle Isle 1. The game elements took shape into what has become a kind of trademark for the entire Battle Isle series: Tactic and strategy combined with extraordinary game depth, detailed graphics and a rich background story. Instead of the standard black-white clichés, the Battle Isle story offered multifaceted characters with inner conflicts, characters with which gamers could more readily identify. The success of the game was inevitable, and Battle Isle 2 (1993), Battle Isle 3 (1995) and the action-filled tactical game Incubation (1997) followed. Incubation was the first game in the Battle Isle series to offer a complete 3D environment. Currently, the series contains a total of four mission CDs and Data disks. Over 650,000 copies of the Battle Isle games have been sold to date, and the series has received numerous worldwide honors and awards. The fifth installment in the Battle Isle series will be Battle Isle: The Andosia War, scheduled for release in November 2000.
About Blue Byte Software Established in 1988, Blue Byte is a privately-owned company and has consistently re-affirmed its position as one of the world's leading independent developers and publishers of PC games software with award-winning titles such as Jimmy Connors Pro Tennis Tour, The Battle Isle Series, The Settlers Series, Extreme Assault, Incubation, Game, Net & Match! and Stephen King's* F13.
In its 13th year, Blue Byte is synchronizing its international operations from offices in the USA and Germany with a development program that is both advancing the development of online and network gaming and broadening the audience for computer games. The company introduced its Blue Byte DIRECT™ online store in May 2000, selling games exclusively online in the U.S. and Canada. This significant step was made to take full advantage of North America's more advanced Internet culture, and Blue Byte is well on its way towards pioneering the popularization of computer gaming as a true global entertainment medium. http://www.bluebyte.com. *Stephen King's name is used with permission under license.
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