TIMESPLITTERS FUTURE PERFECT BLASTS ONTO RETAIL SHELVES FROM EA
Chertsey, UK. - March 22, 2005 - Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that TimeSplitters Future PerfectTM has shipped worldwide under the EA GAMESTM brand. Produced by EA Partners and developed by Free Radical Design Ltd., TimeSplitters Future Perfect marks the return of the critically-acclaimed console first-person shooter franchise.
Featuring innovative "meet and assist yourself" gameplay, TimeSplitters Future Perfect challenges players to team up with past, present and future versions of themselves as they battle their way through an action-packed story spanning more than 500 years and loaded with the series' trademark humor.
The game features:
- A deep story mode taking players from a 1914 Scottish castle to the frontlines of a robot war in 2243
- Online multiplayer action* for up to 16 gamers on Xbox LiveTM and 8-player action for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, in 11 unique online game modes, including Deathmatch, Shrink, Thief, Capture the Bag, Virus, Vampire and more
- Co-op mode allowing gamers to play through the entire single-player game with a friend
- Deep Arcade and Challenge modes offering dozens of mini-games and offline multiplayer action
- More than 150 playable characters, from robotic super soldiers and Cold War commandos to zombie nurses and pistol-packing monkeys
- Easy-to-use Mapmaker tools allowing players to create their own single and multiplayer levels and share them online for endless replay value
- More than 40 era-specific weapons and vehicles - from time disruption grenades and giant mechs to flare guns and machine-gun mounted trucks
TimeSplitters Future Perfect is available for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Xbox® video game system from Microsoft and Nintendo GameCubeTM. The game is rated PEGI 18, BBFC 15 and USK 16. For more information about the game please visit www.electronicarts.co.uk or the game's official Web site www.eagames.co.uk/timesplitters
About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the world's leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, EA posted revenues of $2.96 billion for fiscal 2004. The company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers and the Internet. In 2003, EA had 27 titles that each sold more than one million copies. Electronic Arts markets its products under three brand names: EA SPORTSTM, EA GAMESTM and EA SPORTS BIGTM. EA's homepage and online game site is www.electronicarts.co.uk More information about EA's products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at www.electronicarts.co.uk/press
About Free Radical Design Ltd.
Founded in 1999, Free Radical Design Ltd. is a wholly independent videogame(s) developer based in Nottingham, UK. Free Radical Design was the winner of Develop magazines' 'Best Independent Developer' award in 2003. TimeSplitters 2 received 5 nominations for the 2004 BAFTA Games Awards and Second Sight received 2 nominations for the 2005 BAFTA Game Awards.