Full Spectrum Warrior Ships to Retail - HOT!Posted on Tuesday, June 01, 2004 @ 07:57:25 pm E.S.T
THQ Inc. (Nasdaq:THQI) today announced the release of "Full Spectrum Warrior"(TM) for the Xbox(TM) videogame system from Microsoft. Developed by Pandemic Studios, "Full Spectrum Warrior" is an original, tactical-action military game that simulates in every detail the experience of squad command in the highly charged atmosphere of urban warfare. Compatible with Xbox Live(TM)!, Microsoft's online gaming arena, "Full Spectrum Warrior" has shipped to retailers throughout North America for a suggested retail price of $49.99.
"`Full Spectrum Warrior' is a milestone in electronic interactive entertainment. As it was developed as a training device for the U.S. Army, it's the most realistic and authentic military game to date," said Jack Sorensen, THQ executive vice president, worldwide studios. "`Full Spectrum Warrior' is one of the most visually impressive games ever launched. It delivers tactical and strategic squad combat not seen in today's popular military games and carries the genre to a new level of reality and entertainment."
"Full Spectrum Warrior" is based on a light infantry-training simulator designed by Pandemic Studios for the U.S. Army as a tool to reinforce Army doctrine and squad tactics among troops. Delivering the experience of squad level command in the heat of battle, the game was developed with expertise from University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies, who worked with Pandemic to replicate today's challenges of urban combat missions.
"`Full Spectrum Warrior' truly simulates the actions and reactions of a squad leader and his soldiers in hostile settings through simple and intuitive controls," said Josh Resnick, president, Pandemic Studios. "By taking advantage of Xbox Live!, `Full Spectrum Warrior' allows players from around the world to simulate co-operative urban combat missions."
"Our challenge was to create a radically new Squad level experience -- complete with a highly unpredictable and dangerous environment -- on a game console," adds James H. Korris, Institute for Creative Technologies creative director. "Our business model allows us to choose best-of-class organizations as our production partners; Pandemic Studios was the obvious choice."
Since its unveiling, gaming media have been raving about "Full Spectrum Warrior":
-- "Any gamer with half the sense of Gomer Pyle knows that military games are all the rage right now. In the battle for shock-and-awe realism, `Full Spectrum Warrior' has an unfair advantage." -- Playboy magazine, 4 out of 4
-- "The tactical depth of `Full Spectrum Warrior' gets you hooked in a hurry and cranks the intensity up to a spinally-tapped 11." -- Official Xbox Magazine
-- "Getting up from my chair, I realized I had been playing for almost a half hour. I'd barely noticed. I'd never played anything quite like `Full Spectrum Warrior,' and its emphasis on strategy in what is typically an action-drenched setting was quite refreshing." -- Gamespy.com
-- "It simply cannot be denied that THQ is sitting on what could be a quantum leap forward in the battlefield simulation category." -- Game Informer
For more information about "Full Spectrum Warrior," visit http://www.thq.com or http://www.fullspectrumwarrior.com
About Pandemic
Pandemic Studios, LLC is a premier developer of entertainment software for PlayStation(R) 2, Xbox, GameCube(TM), and the PC. Over the last 6 years, industry veterans Josh Resnick and Andrew Goldman have built Pandemic into a company of nearly 200 highly skilled programmers, designers, and artists working on high-profile titles. Pandemic is a privately held company with development studios in Los Angeles, California, and Brisbane, Australia. For more information about Pandemic please visit http://www.pandemicstudios.com
About THQ
THQ Inc. is a leading, worldwide developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software for a variety of hardware platforms including PC CD-ROM, wireless devices, and those manufactured by Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc., Nintendo and Microsoft. The THQ web site is located at http://www.thq.com . THQ and the THQ logo are trademarks and/or registered trademark of THQ Inc.
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