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News from the Gaming World
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: George Broussard
CIS: 71321,2743
America Online: Apogee1
Internet: 71321.2743@compuserve.com
Announcing 3D Realms Entertainment
New Apogee division dedicated to development of 3D games
Garland, TX -- August 27, 1994 -- 3D Realms Entertainment, a new
division of Apogee Software, Ltd., is focused exclusively on
creating the best 3D games for the PC. "By just focusing on 3D
games," says George Broussard, head of 3D Realms, "we'll be able
push the technology as far as it can possibly go on the PC, thus
providing our customers with the best 3D play experiences
achievable."
Currently, 3D Realms has four exciting, next-generation 3D games
under development. States Broussard, "3D games are an exploding
market, and it's not going to diminish any time soon. We see 3D
games as the future of gaming since they best represent how we live
in life--we don't live in a 2D world, we live in a 3D reality. It's
about time a company commits to specializing in this hot market,
without being distracted by other game styles."
3D Realms is committed to releasing innovative, cutting-edge 3D
games that totally plunge players into a realistic environment, be
it a hostile action game, a simulation, a sports game or an
adventure/exploration game. Most games rarely live up to their
hype. We believe the features and inventiveness of our games will
speak for themselves.
"Our current 3D development 'engine', Build, is tailor built for
fast action and realistic gameplay, plus it pushes the envelope of
3D gaming technology further than we've seen it," states Broussard.
"It's natural to compare it to Id Software's superb DOOM engine,
except it has many new advancements, like looking up and down,
moving transport vehicles, more realistic lighting, translucent
images, rooms above rooms, spiral staircases, and other more
technical improvements. The game characters can also jump, duck,
crawl, climb ladders, fly, or anything else you can imagine."
All of the games support modem play as well as IPX network play.
Here's a brief description of the current 3D Realms games in
development:
RUINS: RETURN OF THE GODS As an enterprising archaeologist, you have
dug up more than you can handle! You've just discovered an alien
mothership buried deep beneath a recent Egyptian excavation. This
vessel belongs to not-so-friendly aliens who built the ancient
pyramids in order to produce a mind-controlling energy field over
the Earth. After a millennium, the aliens have returned to finish
their dark work by enslaving the people of the world. Only you know
their sinister plot! Battle the Anubis and other Egyptian
mythological monsters, along with awesome alien enemies, as you
solve puzzles and escape traps in your quest to annihilate the alien
invaders.
SHADOW WARRIOR As a highly trained Ninja warrior, you're on a
mission to stop a powerful and evil mystical spirit that has been
released after a thousand years' imprisonment under Mt. Fuji.
You'll cast magical energies and use an array of weapons, including
throwing stars and a crossbow, as you battle a combative cult of
obsessed assassins and murderers. Controlled by the returning
spirit, this hostile horde seeks to overthrow first Japan, and then
the world. Only you have the power to give them the final
"Sayonara, baby!" Overcome trained martial arts opponents, elude
traps, defeat magical enemies, and conquer the supernatural as you
set out to save mankind in this action-packed mystical adventure.
DUKE NUKEM 3D -- The future is here and you may be the only one
fierce enough to face it! The World Government has lowered a
gigantic dome around Los Angeles, which has become a mecca for
criminals. Evil but ingenious scientists and bosses have activated
the nuclear plants and are building the mother of all bombs to
obliterate Earth in one last gesture! As the unflappable Duke
Nukem, you are assigned the job of entering the dome through a
secret passage and stopping the plan in its tracks. Done Duke's
way, this means kill first then ask questions. This non-stop
action/survival saga unfolds on a space station orbiting Earth where
you must knock out a force field surrounding the planet. With
astounding futuristic weapons, you'll enter a battleground of
phenomenal action to fry the foes before they undo the world.
BLOOD -- Welcome to the nightmare! Horror rears its many heads in
this eerie spine-tingling action adventure. Suddenly, all of the
subconscious and conscious evil in humankind's minds has spawned
macabre manifestations all over the planet. As a member of a secret
group that has been awaiting this event, you journey to the heart of
danger where the outbreaks of evil have been most reported. You
arrive at a mysterious castle, the first of several strongholds
where gruesome monsters and otherworldly creations are preparing to
do unspeakable horrors to the people of Earth. You must use every
weapon at your disposal, including a flame-thrower, to stop the
erupting evil. Without backup help available, you realize it's just
you against them!
SEE SCREEN SHOTS OF BLOOD IN THE CYBERNEWS HLP FILE EDITION!
DOWNLOAD CYBERW01.ZIP!
All four games are due out in 1995. Each one will have a shareware
version available for free through bulletin boards (i.e. Software
Creations BBS) and online services (i.e. CompuServe and America
Online). Each shareware version--approximately one third of the
full game--will advertise the complete game, which is sold directly
by 3D Realms. (The industry known "Apogee Model" shareware
marketing system.) FormGen Corporation has the worldwide exclusive
license to release each game into the retail channel at the same
time the shareware versions of each game are released by 3D Realms.
"We will continue to develop state-of-the-art 3D game engines,"
Broussard said. "Already under development is our PolyTex engine,
due to be ready in early 1995. It will let us design games that are
perfectly realistic using a true 3D environment. Imagine yourself
inside a space station without gravity and using magnetic boots to
walk on any surface at any orientation, climb ladders to rooms above
rooms and fly into space through an airlock. That's the kind of
realistic game environment that will be possible with the Polytex
engine."
3D Realms Entertainment--more than a just a new company, it's a new
outlook on game development. We are focused on creating the next
wave of realistic, engrossing gaming experiences. Games that *are*
real.
Additional notes:
3D Realms will release each game using the "Apogee Model", meaning
the first third of each game will be available freely as shareware.
The full version of each game can be ordered directly from 3D
Realms. Additionally, the version of each game will be available
through retail channels, too. FormGen Corporation (publisher of
SPEAR OF DESTINY) will handle the retail distribution of all four 3D
Realms titles.
The inhouse level editor and development tools will be made
available, so users can use these highly advanced tools to develop
their own levels and art.
RISE OF THE TRIAD, an Apogee release coming by November, is not
being released under the 3D Realms label.