ATARI’S TEST DRIVE AND STUNTMAN JOIN THE
PLAYSTATION 2 “GREATEST HITS” COLLECTION
Top-Selling PlayStation®2 Driving Games
Earn Their Place Among PlayStation 2 System’s Elite
LOS ANGELES – April 21, 2003 – Atari
announced today that Test Drive® and Stuntman™ for the PlayStation®2 computer
entertainment system, will be relaunched as part of Sony Computer Entertainment
America’s “Greatest Hits” program this summer. To be eligible for the special
collection, each game must be available at retail for more than nine months and
boast sales in excess of 400,000 units.
Test Drive challenges players to compete in
an illegal street racing league by facing off against opponents as well as the
local police, who pursue the racers as they careen through city streets avoiding
pedestrians, traffic signals and oncoming traffic. Test Drive features more than
20 licensed sports cars — including the Dodge® Viper GTS, the Chevrolet®
Corvette Z06 and the Lotus® Esprit V8 — as well as a blockbuster soundtrack of
thumping driving music from DMX, Ja Rule, Saliva and others.
Developed by Infogrames’ own Reflections
Interactive Limited, the company behind the best-selling Driver™ series,
Stuntman thrusts players into Hollywood-style action films, completing
death-defying stunts for a series of movies and building a career to become an
A-list stunt driver. After completing a series of stunts for each movie, players
can watch a full-motion video trailer for the film that includes their gameplay
stunts spliced in. Top stunt drivers will unlock bonus items, such as jumps,
burning hoops and stacked vehicles, that can be used in the game’s fully
customizable “Stunt Arena.”
Test Drive and Stuntman “Greatest Hits”
editions for PlayStation 2 are expected to ship April 29 and June 26
respectively for estimated retail prices of $19.99 and ESRB ratings of ‘T’ for
Teen.
About Infogrames
New York-based Infogrames, Inc. (Nasdaq: IFGM)
develops interactive games for all platforms and is one of the largest
third-party publishers of interactive entertainment software in the U.S. The
Company’s 1,000+ titles are distributed under two brand lines: ATARI, hard-core,
genre-defining games such as Driver™, Enter the Matrix™, Neverwinter Nights™,
Stuntman™, Test Drive®, Unreal® Tournament 2003, and Unreal® Championship; and
INFOGRAMES, mass-market and children’s games such as Backyard Sports™,
Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues™ and Dora the Explorer™, Civilization®, Dragon Ball
Z® and RollerCoaster Tycoon®. Infogrames, Inc. is a majority-owned subsidiary of
France-based Infogrames Entertainment SA (Euronext 5257), the largest
interactive games publisher in Europe. For more information, visit
www.infogrames.com.
