January 31, 2007
Empire Interactive
Announces Release Of Flatout Ultimate Carnage For Xbox 360
Flatout 2 Worldwide
Sales Pass One Million Copies And Game Is Named Best Racing Game Of 2006
Empire Interactive, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Silverstar Holdings, today announced the next generation debut of
the FlatOut franchise with FlatOut Ultimate Carnage, releasing on the Xbox 360™
video game and entertainment system from Microsoft in June 2007.
The sales of the critically
acclaimed FlatOut 2 franchise have surpassed one million copies worldwide since
its release in June 2006. FlatOut 2 has also won numerous awards including on
Xbox® ‘Best Racing Game of 2006’ from G4’s X-Play games show (beating off the
likes of Need For Speed Carbon and Test Drive Unlimited in the process), ‘Best
PlayStation 2 Racing Game of 2006’ from IGN and on PC “Best Racing game of 2006”
from Krawall Gaming Network.
Developed by Bugbear Entertainment,
FlatOut Ultimate Carnage is rebuilt from the ground up and specifically
developed to take advantage of the additional feature sets and improved
processing ability of the Xbox 360 to produce an entirely new, breathtaking
FlatOut experience.
Some of the many brand new design
and gameplay components featured in FlatOut Ultimate Carnage include 12 cars
racing on screen up from eight in FlatOut 2, five all-new single player and two
all-new multiplayer game modes over the Xbox Live® online game service, over
8,000 dynamic objects per track up from 5,000 in FlatOut 2, widescreen High
Definition resolution (720p), dynamic lighting and shadowing all with proper
real-time environment mapping on all vehicles, downloadable content via Xbox
Live, and 20,000 polygons per car up from 7,500 in the previous generation.
Commenting on the next generation
debut of the FlatOut franchise, Ian Higgins, CEO of Empire Interactive remarked,
“The announcement of FlatOut Ultimate Carnage on Xbox 360 is the first since the
acquisition of Empire Interactive by Silverstar, and will be followed by many
other exciting announcements from the company throughout 2007. The FlatOut
franchise has been incredibly successful to date with the first two games in the
series both selling over one million copies around the world, so we are very
excited in being able to reward the loyal FlatOut fan base with a next
generation FlatOut game. FlatOut Ultimate Carnage is that game and it is
undoubtedly the best FlatOut game to date.”
Clive Kabatznik, CEO of Silverstar
Holdings, stated “FlatOut is the flagship franchise of our group. The tremendous
public response to the title and the numerous industry awards are testimony to
the quality and popularity of this game franchise. We believe that this bodes
well for the upcoming release of FlatOut Ultimate Carnage on Xbox 360, both in
terms of the new capabilities showcased by third generation console technology
as well as increased popular appeal for the latest incarnation of this most
successful franchise.”