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War World

XBLA third-person shooter launches today, a little later than originally planned.

This Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 9 a.m. GMT (2:00 a.m. PDT) gamers will have the opportunity to hone their war fighting and strategy skills in “War World.”

Travel to a far away planet for a pure adrenaline rush! “War World” is a fast-paced third person shooter that features a unique blend of action and tactical gameplay, which sets it apart from any other multiplayer shooter. The game features powerful armored mechanoids that battle head-to-head in an all-out savage single and multiplayer war.

Choose from 16 different mechanoids, each has its own special abilities and advantages, including Extreme Speed, High Damage Lasers, Missiles and more. The single player Arcade mode boasts a 100 level campaign that can be played with five levels of difficulty. Rather take on the opponents with friends? “War World” multiplayer offers four unique game-modes: Capture the Flag, Bomb Assault, Death Match and Team Death Match.

Developed by Third Wave Games and published by Ubisoft, “War World” will be available for 800 Microsoft Points worldwide.

For more details on “War World” please visit:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/w/warworldxboxlivearcade/

Features:

The game supports 4 player Live co-op, online multiplayer, over 100 campaign levels, numerous multiplayer modes and "full HDR rendering” so sexy graphics.

Control a heavily-armed assault mech and fight for supremacy against powerful opponents on the faraway planet called War World. This fast-paced third-person shooter includes three single-player game modes with a 100-level arcade style game and four multiplayer game modes, and is one big beautiful package of entertainment.

Super powerful and unique mechs: Choose from 16 different mechanoids, each having special abilities and advantages including Extreme Speed, High Damage Lasers, Powerful Miniguns, Missiles, Stealth Invisibility, Mortars, Mine-launchers, Tough Armor, Shields and more.

Single player mode: Single player Arcade mode boasts a 100-level campaign with 5 levels of difficulty. Single player Death Match and Single player Team Death Match puts you up against the best mech fighters in War World.

Fast-paced multiplayer: Play with other Xbox® gamers online or direct link. War World multiplayer offers four unique game-modes, including Capture the Flag, Bomb Assault, Death Match and Team Death Match.

Next-gen visual effects: Full HDR rendering, normal mapped diffuse and specular lighting, light blooms, atmospheric, explosion and weapon effects all combine to provide a spectacular game experience.

War World is designed by one of Australia’s growing developers, THIRD WAVE GAMES. Originally a PC title designed and built by one of the smallest developer teams. But size is not always important as this is a mech battles on steroids, fast and furious.

Certainly something different on XBLA and good to see an Aussie premier title hitting the arcade!

Further Details:

Morten from THIRD WAVE is available at anytime to discuss War World and its transition to XBLA.

www.thirdwavegames.com

For any information or for interview opps please contact Martin Wilkes

martin.wilkes@addictive.com.au

Addictive Agency

Martin Wilkes

Martin.wilkes@addictiveagency.com.au

+ 61 0421 568 434

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