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Eidos Interactive Creates Timesplitters for PlayStation 218 May 2000SAN FRANCISCO--(Press Release)--May 17, 2000 Created by former members of the GoldenEye Development Team, Eidos Interactive is leading the charge with the PlayStation® 2. Today, at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the publisher announced that it will ship the new game Timesplitters, designed exclusively for PlayStation 2, in time for holiday season 2000. Eidos is teaming with Free Radical Design, creator of the mega popular Nintendo 64® title GoldenEye, to get the jump on the widely anticipated new game platform. In Timesplitters, players maneuver unique characters through richly-detailed levels spanning a century from 1935 to 2035. A disparate bunch of human heroes and villains find they share a common foe in the title characters. This evil race, roused from an ancient sleep, manipulate the fate of humanity using shards of crystal to sow fear, greed and conflict throughout history. The game, a visionary redesign of the popular first-person shooter genre, echoes the addictive, frantic action of Doom with game play easier than Unreal Tournament and Quake 3. The incredibly fast and intense arcade action takes place in numerous gameplay styles including deathmatch, capture the bag, and last stand scenarios. A simple and intuitive mapmaker even allows players to create their own exciting deathmatch levels. Timesplitters enables gamers to engage in 1-player, 2-player (co-operative and competitive), 3-player and 4-player split-screen battles, all propelled by silky smooth 60FPS graphics. "Timesplitters may well be one of the first great shooters for the PlayStation 2 game console," predicted Mike McGarvey, COO, Eidos Interactive. "We are confident that the combination of the programming talent of Free Radical and the power of the PlayStation 2 will put this game in a league all it's own." Timesplitters in one of two PlayStation 2 titles announced by Eidos Interactive. Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 developed by Crystal Dynamics will also be shipping for the PlayStation 2 early next year. Eidos Interactive, Inc. is a leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment products for the PC, PlayStation® game console, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Sega Dreamcast™, Nintendo® and Game Boy® Color. Eidos Interactive is part of London-based Eidos plc (NASDAQ: EIDSY) with additional offices in San Francisco, Paris, Hamburg, and Tokyo. For more information on Eidos Interactive's product line visit http://www.eidos.com |