Aspyr Releases `Tomb Raider: Chronicles' for the Macintosh.Business Editors & High-Tech/Entertainment Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 2001 Aspyr Media Aspyr Media, Inc. (IPA: /əsˈpaɪər/) is an Austin, Texas based company that specializes in porting Windows games to the Mac OS platform. Inc., in a continuing partnership with Eidos Interactive Eidos Interactive is a publisher of video and computer games with its parent company based in England. It is now part of the Eidos Group of Companies and is a subsidiary of SCi Entertainment Group PLC that is publicly-traded on the London Stock Exchange. Inc., a leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment, today announced it has shipped "Tomb Raider(R): Chronicles" for the Macintosh(R). The conversion was completed by Westlake Interactive. "Tomb Raider: Chronicles" is one of the first Mac titles to ship built for MacOS X. "`Tomb Raider: Chronicles' is the missing link," says Ted Staloch, V.P. of sales for Aspyr Media Inc. "The game not only gives insight into Lara's past, but it also provides gamers with the opportunity to create their own new adventures." "Chronicles" takes place at a memorial service for Lara Croft CROFT, obsolete. A little close adjoining to a dwelling-house, and enclosed for pasture or arable, or any particular use. Jacob's Law Dict. -- her body still not found. It offers insight into Lara Croft's mysterious past, featuring four untold adventures, which take our heroine to the city of Rome, a German U-boat, a small Irish Island and a hi-tech tower block. "Chronicles" combines the greatest elements of the "Tomb Raider" series with some familiar faces. Graphical improvement provides the smoothest gameplay
Gameplay includes all player experiences during the interaction with game systems, especially formal games. Proper use is coupled with reference to "what the player does". yet, with increased detail, improved lighting, a greater number of characters and objects plus greater levels of interaction with characters and objects. Greater use is made of the inventory system, and more items may be collected allowing more variations of the "combine" option. New features include tightrope walking Tightrope Walking See also acrobatics. aerialist a person who performs aerial acrobatics, as a trapeze artist, tightrope walker, stunt flier, etc. funambulism the art or skill of tightrope walking. — funambulist, n. , parallel bar swinging and a hand-to-hand stealth attack. The game also boasts new weapons including a grappling hook gun, sniper See sniping software. rifle and chloroform chloroform (klôr`əfôrm) or trichloromethane (trī'klôrōmĕth`ān), CHCl3 , as well as a new "search" option enabling Lara to look through files, drawers, etc., for useful items. "Chronicles" includes the highly acclaimed "Tomb Raider" level editor as used to create previous "Tomb Raider" adventures. The system allows the user to create and play unique "Tomb Raider" levels of their own design -- in the same manner as the "Tomb Raider" team. "Tomb Raider: Chronicles" for Macintosh, will be available wherever Mac games are sold, with a Suggested Retail Price of $39.95. About Aspyr Media Inc. Based in Austin, Texas, Aspyr Media Inc. is a leading publisher of Macintosh interactive entertainment software, committed to offering high-quality interactive entertainment products and service, with a smile, to Mac gamers worldwide. More information on Aspyr and their line of products can be found on the Internet at http://www.aspyr.com. About Westlake Interactive Westlake Interactive is a leading developer of Macintosh games This alphabetical list of Macintosh games itemizes those computer and video games available for any version of Mac OS in native mode. Since the library of Mac OS programs is unmanageable, this list is confined to those programs for which a Wikipedia article exists. , specializing in conversion. Based in Austin, Texas, Westlake has converted some best-selling and critically acclaimed titles and has more than 25 years of combined experience developing Macintosh games. More information on Westlake Interactive can be found at http://www.westlakeinteractive.com. Eidos Interactive's Background Information Eidos Interactive Inc. is a leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment products for the PC, PlayStation(R) game console See video game console. , PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system, Sega Dreamcast(tm), Nintendo(R) Game Boy(R) Color and the Xbox(tm) video game system from Microsoft. Eidos Interactive is part of London-based Eidos plc with additional offices in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Paris, Hamburg, Tokyo and Singapore. For more information on Eidos Interactive's product line visit http://www.eidos.com. |
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