Get Ready To Get Blasted! Conker: Live and Reloaded Goes Gold
LONDON, 7th June 2005 - The most popular (and lethal) squirrel in the world, Conker, is readying his plans to invade gamers' homes as Microsoft Game Studios announced today that Conker: Live and Reloaded for Xbox® has gone gold. Set to ship to retail on 24th June for a suggested retail price of £39,99. Conker: Live and Reloaded, developed by the award-winning team at Rare, will drop gamers on to the front lines of an epic battle between the noble Squirrels and the vicious Tediz.
Gaming's notoriously naughty squirrel - Conker - arrives on Xbox with a bang in an all-new Xbox LiveTM-enabled team-based shooter, Conker: Live & Reloaded. 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 the non-stop action, humour, gratuitous violence and intensity for which Conker is famous.
Also included is the critically acclaimed single-player game, Conker's Bad Fur Day, completely recreated for the Xbox with stunning graphics and "reloaded" attitude.
For more information on Conker: Live and Reloaded, please visit http://conker.xbox.com.
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