The lineup includes both PC and next-generation console games. PC games include, Empire Earth™, Arcanum™, Throne of Darkness™, Half-Life®: Blue Shift as well as games that fall under the recently-announced worldwide co-publishing agreement with Fox Interactive, Aliens vs. Predator™ 2, and Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza™. Next-generation console gamers will be treated to such award-winning franchises as Half-Life®, Tribes™ and No One Lives Forever™ soon-to-be released on PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system. On the Xbox™ video game system, Microsoft's future-generation video game console will be Jonny Drama™, a completely original title developed exclusively for the platform. Finally, the newly announced game based on J.R.R. Tolkien's worldwide best-selling novel The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, will make its debut on the Xbox behind closed doors.
"Our 2001 E3 line-up, more than ever before, reflects how we are continuing to raise the bar for cutting-edge action, role-playing and strategy games," commented Barbara Schwabe, vice-president of marketing for Sierra. "We've worked very hard to set the stage with our strategic move into the console arena and we're very pleased with the caliber of games we're bringing to next-generation gamers everywhere."
ALIENS VS. PREDATOR 2:
This is the PC sequel to the most terrifying PC game of 1999. Based on the combination of the most highly successful sci-fi franchises in movie history, AVP 2 takes players to a world where species battle species in the ultimate game of survival. Aliens vs. Predator 2 is being developed by Monolith Productions on the PC.
ARCANUM: OF STEAMWORKS AND MAGICK OBSCURA:
Arcanum™: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura is a new PC role-playing game from Troika Games, founded by key members from the development team behind the award-winning role-playing game, Fallout®*. Named for the world it is set in, Arcanum opens in an age where magic and technology coexist in uneasy balance. An industrial revolution has swept across the fantasy realm of Arcanum, and players must choose their path - magic or technology - in their quest across the massive world.
DIE HARD: NAKATOMI PLAZA:
Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza combines all the exciting elements of the original Die Hard movie in an action/adventure game set in the 3D environment of Nakatomi Plaza. With 40 floors of new office space under construction, John McClane must navigate his way through terrorists, civilians and hostages to save himself and his wife from the terrorists who have this high rise of horror under siege. It is being developed by Pirhana Games for the PC.
EMPIRE EARTH:
Empire Earth is the debut title from Stainless Steel Studios, but not the first for company founder Rick Goodman, who was lead designer for the best-selling and critically acclaimed strategy game Age of Empires®. In Empire Earth, gamers attempt to dominate the Earth in land, sea, and air battles, while advancing their civilizations through over 500,000 years of "history," from the Paleolithic age to the 24th century. Empire Earth lets gamers carry out a night attack with a column of Patton's tanks, command French Grenadiers in the Napoleonic Wars, send Alexander the Great and an army of phalanxes to raze a troublesome city-state, and much, much more.
HALF-LIFE: BLUE SHIFT:
Blue Shift is an all-new single player episode surrounding the Black Mesa security guard introduced in Valve's classic action thriller, Half-Life. In development on PC by Gearbox Software, creators of the critically acclaimed Half-Life: Opposing Force™, Blue Shift also contains the Half-Life HD Pack, which automatically upgrades the weapons and characters of all the games in the Half-Life saga with new high definition content.
THRONE OF DARKNESS: Japanese mythology and fast-paced multiplayer mayhem combine to make Throne of Darkness™ a must-have title for action-oriented role-playing fans. This inaugural game from Click Entertainment, a group of 24 veteran game designers, takes the action/RPG model pioneered by Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo® game into a new direction with a unique storyline and ground-breaking multiplayer capability.
