Top Gun
Now available for PC; Steam powered.
LOS ANGELES - September 14, 2010 - Paramount Digital Entertainment today announced that Top Gun the video game is now available on Windows PC download via Steam. Based on the iconic film, Top Gun is a free-flying air combat expanding the legend of Maverick, Iceman and the rest of the Top Gun flyers through new combat scenarios and dialogue written by the film's screenwriter, Jack Epps, Jr.
Along with Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) Goose, players take the role of Maverick as they take on the best of the best at the Top Gun Academy. Upon graduation, gamers take to the skies over the Indian Ocean to go up against the Soviets in large-scale dogfight battles. Top Gun includes five online multiplayer modes, allowing up to 12 players to battle it out.
While learning the ropes at the Academy and progressing toward active duty, players will team up with seasoned pilots to take down enemy planes over the Indian Ocean in the game's Campaign Mode. For an added challenge, Top Gun fans will have the task of facing the top Soviet ace pilot while managing the tumultuous new wingman relationship between Iceman and Maverick.
Aside from some fantastic flying, players can soar into two single-player and five multiplayer modes. Top Gun also adds the Horde Mode, where players must defeat endless amounts of challenging enemies while showing off their flying prowess against increasingly difficult odds. Whether enlisting in the US Navy or joining their Soviet comrades, players get to feel the rush of multiple head-to-head online multiplayer modes for up to 11 live opponents. Top Gun also features a total of six completely unique planes, starting with the US Navy's F-14 and unlocking five more: the F-16, F/A-18, and the enemy's MiG-29, MiG-31 and Su-27.
Top Gun was developed by doublesix, the recent award winner of Spike's "Video Game Awards" for "Best Game Based on a Movie or TV Show" category.
Top Gun is now available to download on Windows PC via Steam for $9.99 at http://store.steampowered.com/app/38530/ and is rated T by the ESRB. For more information, including screenshots, please visit http://bhimpact.gamespress.com/product_page.asp?i=1066.
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About Paramount Digital Entertainment
Paramount Digital Entertainment (PDE) is a division of Paramount Pictures Corporation. PDE develops and distributes filmed entertainment across worldwide digital distribution platforms including online, mobile and portable devices, videogames, and emerging technologies.
Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC), a global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment, is a unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), a leading content company with prominent and respected film, television and digital entertainment brands. The company's labels include Paramount Pictures, Paramount Vantage, Paramount Classics, MTV Films and Nickelodeon Movies. PPC operations also include Paramount Digital Entertainment, Paramount Famous Productions, Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount Pictures International, Paramount Licensing Inc., Paramount Studio Group and Paramount Worldwide Television Distribution.
About doublesix
doublesix is an award-winning game developer studio, part of Kuju Entertainment Group. doublesix is the developer behind South Park tower defense game soon to be released for Microsoft XBLA; the critically-acclaimed Geometry Wars: Galaxies and the addictive PSN shooter Nucleus. The studio also developed Burn Zombie Burn!, the first self published PSN title exclusive to the Sony Pub Fund. doublesix is dedicated to producing the highest-quality digital-distribution titles across all platforms: XBLA, PSN, WiiWare, PC and iPhone. For more information about doublesix, visit www.doublesixgames.com.
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