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`Buffy the Vampire Slayer' Stakes Out Gaming Platforms; Fox Interactive to Put Gamers in the Role of `The Chosen One' and Rid the World of Evil.


Business/Entertainment Editors

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2000

Fox Interactive today announced its plans to publish "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," a game based on the popular television series, for Sega Dreamcast(TM), PlayStation(R) and the PC.

Scheduled for a fall 2000 release, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is an interactive adventure game set to deliver all the action, fighting, humor, drama and characters from the show that fans have come to know and love.

"Fox Interactive is taking advantage of the vast number of `Slayer' fans who want more than just their usual Tuesday night Buffy fix," stated Karly Young, director, worldwide brand marketing. "Of all entertainment properties available today, `Buffy the Vampire Slayer' is THE franchise that gamers have been asking for. Now's our chance to give gamers the opportunity to live out their own Buffy adventures anytime they feel the need to kick some serious vampire butt."

About the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Game

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" will be a third-person action adventure game where players take on the role of Buffy Summers, a typical high school cheerleader by day and a fierce, but savvy, destroyer of the undead un·dead  
adj.
No longer living but supernaturally animated, as a zombie.
 by night.

With the help of her allies and featured characters from the TV series -- Angel, Xander, Cordelia, Willow, Oz and Giles -- Buffy must destroy the enemy by using her slaying powers, martial arts This is a list of martial arts, broken down by region and style. African martial arts
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, slaying senses and quick healing ability. The game combines action, fighting, drama, humor, exploration and puzzle solving in rich interactive 3-D environments.

Players will have the opportunity to play this game in environments that are familiar to fans of the show such as Sunnydale High Sunnydale High is a fictional high school in Joss Whedon's TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Located in Sunnydale, it competes with Fondren High ("Some Assembly Required"). It was headed by Principal Bob Flutie early in the first season.  School, the cemetery, town square, the shopping mall, The Bronze nightclub and Buffy's home. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is a game that invites all Buffy fans to join her at her favorite haunts where it's up to action adventure-loving gamers to save the world from vampires, demons Demons
See also devil; evil; ghosts; hell; spirits and spiritualism.

ademonist

one who denies the existence of the devil or demons.

bogyism, bogeyism

recognition of the existence of demons and goblins.
 and the forces of darkness -- keeping the human race from being literally drained.

Developing the Game

To maintain the authentic look and feel from the popular TV series, the producers and creators of the shows, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel," will play an active role in the development of this title. Developed by The Collective, a Southern California-based game developer, the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" design team will create detailed and extremely accurate character and environment depictions from the TV series and apply them to the interactive game.

Strengthening its leadership position in the interactive entertainment industry, Fox Interactive is leveraging its popular entertainment franchise by combining television, music and gaming into one complete package.

About the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Television Series

Now in its fourth season, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is an Emmy Award-winning action-packed thriller by series creator Joss Whedon Joss Hill Whedon (born Joseph Hill Whedon[1] on June 23, 1964 in New York) is an Academy Award-nominated American writer, director, executive producer, and creator/Head Writer of the well-known television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel . Sarah Michelle Gellar Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as the fictional character Buffy Summers in the acclaimed television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination.  stars as Buffy, a quick-witted heroine whose birthright as the Slayer, the Chosen One of her generation with the ability to hunt and destroy vampires, conflicts with her desire to lead a normal life.

Armed with a wooden stake, martial arts skills and the help of her friends, Willow (Alyson Hannigan Alyson Hannigan (born March 24, 1974) is an American actress who plays Lily Aldrin in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. She is also known for her previous roles as Willow Rosenberg on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer ), Xander (Nicholas Brendon Nicholas Brendon (born April 12, 1971 as Nicholas Brendon Schultz in Los Angeles, California), is an actor best known for his character Xander Harris in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003). He has an identical twin brother named Kelly Donovan. ), Oz (Seth Green) and her former watcher Giles (Anthony Stewart Anthony Stewart (born January 5, 1985 in LaSalle, Quebec, Canada) is a professional ice hockey player. He is 6'1", 225 lbs, shoots right and plays Right Wing for the Florida Panthers of the NHL.  Head), Buffy battles against evil and protects the world from total destruction.

Airing Tuesdays (8-9 p.m. PT/ET) on The WB, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is produced by Mutant Enemy Inc., Kuzui Enterprises, and Sandollar Productions, in association with Twentieth Century Fox Television.

About Fox Interactive

Recognized as an innovative industry leader, Fox Interactive, an operating unit operating unit

A type of operating company that engages in transactions with outsiders and that is owned by another business. For example, in 1995 the stockholders of Capital Cities/ABC approved a $19 billion merger with the Walt Disney Company, whereupon
 of Fox Filmed Entertainment, a News Corporation company, is committed to developing a full range of bold and engaging interactive entertainment. The company creates computer and video game software based on Fox franchises as well as new and original properties.

Fox Interactive games currently released include the 3-D platform game "CROC croc  
n. Informal
A crocodile.
 2," the top-selling PC hit "Aliens versus Predator," "The X-Files," "Die Hard Trilogy," "Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. ," "The Simpsons Cartoon Studio" and "Virtual Springfield," as well as the FOX Sports brand of video games. Upcoming releases include "Aliens versus Predator Gold Edition."

Check out Fox Interactive online at http://www.foxinteractive.com.
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