Conker Fans…Get Ready to Reload! Conker: Live & Reloaded Ships to Retail
London - 23rd June, 2005 Microsoft Game Studios announced today that the world's most popular squirrel commando is set to reload and unload on gamers everywhere, as Conker: Live & Reloaded will be available at retail tomorrow across Europe. Conker: Live & Reloaded, developed by the award-winning team at Rare, will drop gamers into the front lines of an epic battle between the noble Squirrels and the vicious Tediz. Boasting amazing graphics, explosive combat, 5.1 audio and over-the-top humour, Conker was widely hailed at its recent showing at E3, and is now available exclusively for Xbox® at a suggested retail price of £39.99.
The latest installment in the best-selling Conker series takes the intense action and crude humour that fans know and love and kicks it up a notch by introducing a new Xbox LiveTM multiplayer mode. With the added challenge of multiplayer combat, players can create their own squad and take their team off to battle in team-based campaigns. No friends? No worries-Conker's got you covered with A.I. bots you can create and customise to suit your skill level. Featuring intense death-match and campaign storyline modes via Xbox Live and system link, players can compete as one of six combat specialists across multi-mission campaigns covering Old War and Future War. The Live game-play promises to deliver more of the non-stop action, outrageous antics, and butt-kicking combat for which Conker is famous world-wide.
Also included with Conker: Live & Reloaded as an added bonus is the critically acclaimed single-player game Conker's Bad Fur Day, completely recreated for the Xbox featuring stunning graphics and a "reloaded" attitude. For more information on Conker: Live & Reloaded, please visit http://conker.xbox.com.
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