London, United Kingdom — 4/14/2003 – Entertainment software publishers HD Interactive and NovaLogic Ltd. today announced that the European version of Devastation, the next-generation Unreal engine-powered first person shooter, has gone gold and will be available on retail shelves throughout the UK on April 17th.

The Cyberpunk FPS features amazing graphics, an engaging story line, intelligent NPC and over thirty futuristic weapons to blast away enemy AI. Throughout twenty single player levels gamers can pick up and throw items and in multiplayer can participate in a brand new style of multiplayer gaming called Territories.

If you want to find out more, visit the official UK Devastation web site: www.DevastationGame.co.uk.

The web site features links to the latest online previews, gameplay trailers, screen shots, art work and the official UK Devastation Forum.

Storyline:

On a future devastated Earth, powerful, corrupt corporations control remaining technology and rule what\'s left of society. Pacification Squads, a brutal private police force, maintain order for the corporate syndicate. The only hope for freedom is a small group of Resistance fighters made up of gang leaders, mercenaries and ex-military operatives. As the Resistance leader you must assemble your army and travel the globe, restoring peace and sanity in a very dangerous world.

Highlights:

• Next-generation Unreal® Engine coupled with the MathEngine Karma(™) physics system provides dramatic visuals, ultra-realistic object physics, rag-doll deaths, and user-friendly mod tools.
• Hollywood-style explosions and in-your-face special effects showcase awesome particle physics including explosive headshots, flowing water and blood, amazing weapons effects and realistic fire created by the amazing "OFX" VisualFX system with full hardware T & L support.
• Tons of physics-enable objects can be used, destroyed or manipulated-set traps with the garbage in the streets, use a broken bottle to slash your way to victory or toss a chair down the hall to distract a guard.
• More than 30 unique weapons, including machine guns, swords, handguns, sniper weapons and incredible Rat Drones that allow players to "become the weapon".
• Objective-based, storyline focused single player campaign, incorporating special skills like stealth, surveillance, hacking into security systems, sniping, and brute force.
• 32 massive, photorealistic levels based off real-world textures, including 20 single player and 12 multiplayer maps, set in four stunning environments.
• All the favorite online multiplayer standards, including Capture the Flag, Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch, including an exciting new style of multiplayer gaming: Territories.
• Powerful, easy-to-use editor with more than 4,000 prefabs and tons of physics-enabled objects.

In conjunction with the release of Devastation, NovaLogic has also launched an online graffiti competition at www.devastationgame.co.uk/graffiti to search for the nation’s most promising online graffiti artist.

With a top prize of £1000, the graffiti competition is looking for the graffiti piece that best represents the Devastation world. NovaLogic has also teamed up with Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment to cross promote the release of Devastation with the forthcoming DVD release of 28 Days Later, a film that shares a similar theme to the Devastation world. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will be supplying theatrical posters and screenplays signed by Director Danny Boyle, Author Alex Garland and Producer Andrew Macdonald, as well as DVD copies of the film itself, as prizes for the online graffiti competition.

Minimum System Requirements:

Windows® 98/ME/2000/XP, Pentium® III 500 MHz processor (1.0 GHz Recommended), 128 MB RAM, 1 GB Hard Disk Space, 3D Accelerated video card with T&L and 32 MB VRAM (NVIDIA GeForce/ATI Radeon minimum examples, 64 MB VRAM Recommended), DirectX® version 8.1 (Included) Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) supported Multiplayer. *Internet play requires a 33.6 Kbps or faster modem (Broadband Recommended).

Devastation will ship on PC CD - ROM across the UK on April 17th 2003.

About NovaLogic
Founded in 1985, NovaLogic Inc. is a developer and global publisher of games for the PC, PlayStation® game console and PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system and Xbox™ video game system. Based in Calabasas, California, the company's European arm, NovaLogic Ltd., has its offices in London, UK. Key game franchises include Delta Force®, Delta Force® - Black Hawk Down®, Joint Operations ™, Comanche® and F-22 Lightning®. For more information go to http://www.novalogic.com/

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