American Soldiers Submit True Stories to Kuma\War Winners’ Real-life Heroics To Be Re-Created As Video Game

Voting Open Now at www.kumawar.com 

New York (Nov. 11, 2004) – Kuma Reality Games, the company that blends news coverage with interactive game technology to allow players to experience re-creations of real military events, has selected four finalists for its ‘Stories From The Front’ contest. Through a co-promotion with Maxim magazine, Kuma\War invited American soldiers and friends and families to submit battle stories. The winner and three buddies will appear in a playable Kuma\War mission as 3D game characters, and in the video news show which accompanies every Kuma\War episode.

To read each finalist’s full story, view photos and vote for the winner of the ‘Stories From The Front‘ contest please visit: www.kumawar.com.  Voting is open to the public and will conclude Nov. 21, 2004 at midnight EST. Brief story synopses follow.

Beneath the Saddam Mosque: An Army Civil Affairs rescue team hunts the dark tunnels beneath the massive Saddam mosque to rescue a local woman from her mujahedeen kidnappers.

Baghdad Convoy: A Fallujah convoy in trouble is saved - literally - when the Cavalry rides to the rescue and knowingly rushes into their third deadly ambush of the day.

Vietnam Ambush: Landmines in the road flip their vehicles, but miraculously the men survive and are able to crawl into the jungle. They spread out in a line and ready extra ammo, steeling themselves for the approaching Viet Cong.

Saddam City Shocker: After fighting their way across the bridge and into Saddam City, all they had to worry about now was their front – or so they thought.

ABOUT KUMA REALITY GAMES

Kuma Reality Games builds re-creations of real-world events using advanced gaming tools. Kuma\War is available online to subscribers for free trial and download at www.kumawar.com  and is also available at retail nationwide at $19.99 MSRP. Owners of the retail product will also receive a free month of the Kuma\War online subscription service (a $9.99 value). Each month Kuma\War online subscribers receive 3 new playable missions, video news shows, extensive intelligence gathered from news sources around the world, and insight from a decorated team of military veterans. Kuma\War is a first and third-person tactical squad-based military PC game that provides multiple updates monthly to the player's computer to reflect unfolding events in the real war. As of today, there are 26 playable missions online available for download, including ‘John Kerry’s Silver Star’, the first-ever realistic re-enactment of the controversial events surrounding John Kerry’s Silver Star and Vietnam service. Kuma Reality Games, headquartered in New York, New York is a privately held company.

As a salute to the men and women in uniform who have served their country, Kuma Reality Games will donate $1 of all paid online subscriptions to The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, which was created to assist the families of the nation's fallen heroes killed in duty.

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