Contact : Marcus Beer Date : Jan 1997 AIR WARRIOR II Take to the air and kick Butt!! Interactive Magic, a successful newcomer to the PC simulation market are about to enter the on-line gaming arena by publishing Air Warrior II. Flight simulation fans know Air Warrior® as the acclaimed on-line combat game developed by The Kesmai Corporation. Air Warrior II will reflect Kesmai’s latest technology and contain close to 100 missions, so that players can hone their flying skills in various scenarios before competing with others on-line. The game has improved graphically in order to enhance the gaming experience. Enemy flight profiles and mission compositions will vary, so a given mission will play differently each time the player attempts it ‘Instant Action’ missions immediately put you in the middle of a dogfight. You have unlimited ammo and fly until you are shot down, with more enemies appearing as you blow up the first Graphical enhancements include There will literally be dozens of new enhanced sounds, including: Big band music - altered to sound like a radio broadcast Aircraft engine sounds for different types of engines, at different distances and different operating conditions (i.e. rear or far from listener: damage or undamaged) Special sounds such as Stuka dive siren, stress sounds when the player approaches maximum tolerance limits of his aircraft; landing on grass, pavement or water Air Warrior II - On Line can be accessed via CompuServe or America On Line. Boxed version of the game will include Start-up disk’s for AOL and CompuServe The game includes photographic quality cockpit art, where each cockpit will now be an accurate depiction of that individual aircraft. Kesmai has spent over $250,000 sending people around the world to photograph these planes. “We are very excited to be working with Kesmai” said Interactive Magic Chairman ‘Wild’ Bill Stealey. “With more than eight years of intense testing and development, Kesmai has produced some of the finest flight models on the market today. For gamers who love air to air combat, very few experiences match the adrenaline rush of dogfighting in a 1940’s aeroplane, only climbing into an actual aeroplane gives a bigger thrill’’. What they are already saying.. ‘Air Warrior II is going to be pure fantasy stuff for propeller heads’ Edge ‘Huge air battles with a cast of thousands awaits all budding Biggles’ PC Format ‘The Most famous of on-line games gets beefed up’ PC Gamer ‘It should satisfy all the combat cravings of fight-pilot wannabes’ PC Entertainment ‘Great Fun and impressively authentic’ Edge To find out more log on to www.imagicgames.co.uk Interactive Magic is dedicated to developing and publishing high-quality games for the Simulation, Strategy and 3D Internet Markets. With offices in Raleigh, North Carolina. Bracknell, England and Guttersloh, Germany.