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Carnage

You have your chance, your ride and now it's up to you...

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Developer: Nice Tech Ltd

Genre: Action: Vehicle Combat

Number of Players: Hugely Multiplayer Online

Platform: PC (Online) + XBOX 360 LIVE

The world's best combat drivers now showcase their skills in vast arenas to earn fame and fortune by going the extra mile. Can you match their expertise? Can you control the power at your feet, the weapons at your fingertips and survive the onslaught to beat the rest? To be the best takes skill, courage and survival instinct. You have your chance, your ride and now it's up to you

In the early decades of the millennium, extreme sports were becoming mainstream; men and women from all over the world pursued all manner of unconventional sports, fuelling their need for natural highs and seizing the chance to win fame and fortune. Ever evolving technology and manufacturing techniques facilitated the creation of vehicles and gadgets that allowed the fearless to cheat death in search of the ultimate rush.

With multinational corporations injecting millions of dollars to market these sports, huge syndicated events were common place, allowing the general public a chance to witness the feats of these new athletes.

However, there is always an underground, always an illicit form of entertainment. In this instance, street racers had created a new challenge, mixing street racing, gang culture and demolition derby style events in a single, gambling-fuelled sub culture where entire city areas would be sectioned off to run an event. Carnage was born; the rules were simple, eliminate the opposition, entertain the crowds, drive and win.

Crime Lords ran the early, bloody and violent events. Many participants were killed in the makeshift arenas as the black market weapons mounted to vehicles proved notoriously unreliable.

Carnage grew. Recordings made their way onto digital content channels. The organisers generated vast amounts of money and protected their gains from the authorities by only confirming events at the last minute. Carnage was making blood sports acceptable. And with the money came celebrity - drivers became heroes, some in it for the money, others in it for kicks. There was never a shortage of people willing to get behind the wheel and participate. The consequence for anyone caught by the authorities was extreme, a life sentence in prison and the likely risk of being silenced before sentence.

The situation was becoming untenable for governments. Finally a consortium of arms and vehicle manufacturers, spotting the opportunity for long term gain, lobbied authorities to legalise Carnage events. With many powerful advocates, laws were amended and Carnage was born as a global sport. With legalisation came regulation; purpose built arenas sprang up around the globe and television deals worth billions were signed - and the world watched

DRIVE, COMPETE, FIGHT, your time is now

Key Features:

Hugely multiplayer vehicle combat

Large interactive game arenas

Real-time dynamics and collision systems

"Death match" orientated gameplay

Individual or cooperative game modes

Managed tournament system

Customisable vehicles, armour, components & weapons

Persistent player statistics & global ranking reward system

Support for hundreds of thousands of players

Simple, addictive "dip-in-dip-out" gameplay for all levels

About the Alice server Technology

AliceServer delivers high performance real-time dynamics and networking that can accommodate large numbers of players reliably on standard server infrastructure. The run-time programmable AliceServer client-engine allows all the high performance game logic to be coded in a proprietary scripting language. The Display engine supports HDR, perspective shadowing and rendering-to-texture and runs on a range of PCs, from those with Intel's on-board graphics to those with graphic cards that support the latest Vertex and Pixel shaders v3.

About Nice Tech Ltd

Nice Tech was formed in 2005 in Cambridge, England to design and develop Massively Multiplayer Online Games, providing the player with an experience that will ultimately rival reality. Nice Tech is incorporated in the UK with development and research facilities in Cambridge, England. Nice Tech develops technology to allow hundreds of thousands of players to interact in a persistent world and designs games that leverage that technology to provide an engaging and absorbing real-time online entertainment experience.

Nice Tech Ltd

www.nicetech.co.uk

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