Impressions Games and Sierra Studios Continue the Pharaoh Saga with Cleopatra

 

FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

Hillary
Crowley

Sierra
Studios

[email protected] 

425-649-9800
x5002

 

IMPRESSIONS
GAMES(tm) AND SIERRA STUDIOS(tm) CONTINUE THE
PHARAOH(tm)
SAGA WITH CLEOPATRA(tm)

Free
Enhancement Pack with Editor Released to Celebrate Announcement
of
Cleopatra

 

CAMBRIDGE,
MA (March 3, 2000) – Impressions Games(tm) and Sierra
Studios(tm)
today announced worldwide Pharaoh Official Expansion:
Cleopatra(tm)
(http://cleopatra.impressionsgames.com), 4 new campaigns
for
their award-winning, strategic city-building game, Pharaoh. Scheduled
for
release in July 2000, this official expansion pack will allow gamers to

experience the final years of ancient Egyptian
history through 15 totally new
scenarios.

 

"Pharaoh
players will love Cleopatra as much as Marc Antony did," said
Alex
X. Rodberg, marketing manager at Impressions Games. "With so
many
additions – new scenarios, industries, enemies, buildings, walkers,
and
monuments – Cleopatra will thrill Pharaoh owners who can’t get enough
of
the ancient Egyptian land. It also will let players access any Pharaoh
scenario,
so even people that didn’t finish Pharaoh will be able to enjoy this
spectacular
story of the Queen of Kings."

 

Pharaoh
Official Expansion: Cleopatra picks up at the end of the New
Kingdom,
where Pharaoh left off. Players will be able to play 4 campaigns
with
15 new missions, with challenges varying from building the Lighthouse
at
Alexandria, to battling grave robbers, to joining Mark Antony in his battle

against Octavian. Now, players will sometimes be
able to carry over
military troops and
personal wealth from one scenario to the next. New
buildings,
industries, animals, enemies, decorations and monuments
expand
the breadth of Pharaoh while maintaining the challenge and
addictiveness.
It is being developed for Impressions Games by
Maryland-based
Breakaway Games, who most recently developed Sid
Meier’s
Antietam!

 

To
celebrate the announcement, Impressions Games will make available
as
a free download the Pharaoh Enhancement Pack, offering gamers an
editor
and a slew of new missions and features. The Enhancement Pack,
not
to be confused with the recently announced Pharaoh Official Expansion:
Cleopatra,
can be downloaded localized for each language version at
(http://www.pharaoh1.com).
The Enhancement Pack includes a scenario
editor,
allowing gamers to create and customize their own missions, a
version
update, and twenty new missions from Impressions Games. The
new
Enhancement Pack is Windows(r) 2000 compatible.

 

Impressions
Games, creator of some of the most innovative, best selling
strategy
titles, including the Lords of the Realm, Lords of Magic, Civil War
Generals
and City Building series, is a leading developer of PC games
with
offices in Cambridge, MA. More information can be found at
http://www.impressionsgames.com
and http://www.sierrastudios.com.

Sierra On-Line, Inc. http://www.sierra.com/ is one
of the original developers
and largest
worldwide publishers of interactive entertainment and
productivity
software. Sierra is a division of Havas Interactive, a global
leader
in interactive content, and is one of the world’s largest publishers of

education, entertainment and home productivity
software. Its divisions,
Blizzard
Entertainment(r), Coktel, Knowledge Adventure(r), Sierra(tm) and
WON.net(r)
are famous for releasing critically acclaimed and award
winning
titles. Havas has operations in the US and in Europe and is a
subsidiary
of the French publishing house Havas, part of Vivendi
Communications.

 

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