Atari Brings the Action of Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas to the Home PC; New PC Game To Be Based on Upcoming Major Motion Picture.Entertainment Editors/Business Editors E3Expo 2003 BEVERLY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 2003 The swashbuckling swash·buck·le intr.v. swash·buck·led, swash·buck·ling, swash·buck·les To act as a swashbuckler, as in a movie or play. [Back-formation from swashbuckler. action of one of this summer's highly-anticipated movies will be coming to life in an interactive PC action adventure game, Atari, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATAR) announced today. The Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (TM)game will be based on the upcoming DreamWorks animated film of the same name and will combine the epic adventure of the movie with the latest innovation in PC technology from Intel to deliver a state-of-the-art game experience. The Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas game will follow the storyline from the film and feature non-stop action, engaging gameplay and state-of-the-art visual effects. As Sinbad, the most daring and notorious rogue ever to sail the seven seas, players journey on an epic adventure to retrieve the fabled Book of Peace and save the life of Sinbad's best friend, Proteus. Along the way, players will fight off hordes of supernatural enemies and go head-to-head with legendary mythic monsters. To aid them in their quest, players can find cool power-ups like invisibility and the ability to summon a mini-army of skeletons to fight by their side. An intuitive control system enables players to perform exhilarating and acrobatic moves and use interactive environment features to defeat Sinbad's enemies. "We are thrilled to be collaborating with DreamWorks and Intel on this exciting project," said John Hurlbut Senior Vice President, U.S. Marketing and General Manager of Atari's Beverly studio. "The Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas PC game will allow players to bring the movie experience home with them for extended fun on their PC." To ensure the game fully captures the excitement and adventure of the film, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas PC game is being created in collaboration with one of the film's directors, Patrick Gilmore. Gilmore is making his directorial debut on "Sinbad" after a ten-year career in developing and producing video games See video game console. . He is working closely with Atari and the development team at U.K.-based Small Rockets Small Rockets is a small computer game developer founded in 2000 that creates and sells PC computer games online. History Small Rockets was born from the ashes of Fiendish Games, a department of Criterion Games, that was started to test the waters for delivering games to faithfully translate the film into an interactive game. To fully capture the stunning visuals of the film, the Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas game is being designed to take full advantage of the Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 processor with Hyper-Threading Technology. Consumers that play the game on a PC enabled with the HT Technology will experience higher quality models and animations. Intel's HT Technology allows the PC's processor to perform multiple complex tasks at the same time with greater responsiveness. The Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas PC game will be available at retail nationwide in October 2003, prior to the DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. and VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier. launch of the movie. A demo of the game will be shown for the first time at the upcoming Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the video game industry's largest trade show and exhibition, from May 14-16. For additional information on this product as well as the company's complete lineup of products, please visit the Atari suite, Petree #4003 or visit www.atari.com. About DreamWorks DreamWorks SKG SKG Stichting Kwaliteit Gevelbouw (Dutch) SKG Spielberg, Katzenberg,and Geffen (DreamWorks Studios) SKG Thessaloniki, Greece - Thessaloniki (Airport Code) SKG Smith and Kraus Global was formed in October, 1994, by its three principal partners--Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen--to produce live-action motion pictures; animated feature films; network and cable television programming; home video entertainment; records; books; toys; and consumer products. About Atari New York-based Atari, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATAR) develops interactive games for all platforms and is one of the largest third-party publishers of interactive entertainment software in the U.S. The Company's 1,000+ titles include hard-core, genre-defining games such as Driver(TM), Enter the Matrix(TM), Neverwinter Nights This article is about the 2002 computer role-playing game. For the AOL MMORPG, see Neverwinter Nights (AOL game). Neverwinter Nights (NWN), produced by BioWare and published by Infogrames (now Atari), is a third-person perspective computer role-playing (TM), Stuntman stunt·man n. A man who substitutes for a performer in scenes requiring physical daring or involving physical risk. stuntman n → especialista m stuntman (TM), Test Drive(R), Unreal(R) Tournament 2003, and Unreal(R) Championship; and mass-market and children's games such as Backyard Sports(TM), Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues Blue's Clues is a children's show about a dog named Blue. It features live action one on one on paper-cutout animation. The series follows a dog named Blue through her everyday life, providing small children with fun and education. The show airs on both Nick Jr. and Noggin. (TM) and Dora the Explorer Dora the Explorer is an animated television series that is carried on the Nickelodeon cable television network. A pilot episode for the series aired in 1999, and Dora the Explorer became a regular series in 2000. (TM), Civilization(R), Dragon Ball Z “DBZ” redirects here. For the meteorological term, see dBZ (meteorology). Dragon Ball Z (ドラゴンボールZ (R) and RollerCoaster Tycoon(R). Atari, Inc. is a majority-owned subsidiary majority-owned subsidiary A firm in which more than 50% of outstanding voting stock is owned by the parent company. of France-based Infogrames Entertainment SA (Euronext 5257), the largest interactive games publisher in Europe. For more information, visit www.atari.com. (C) 2003 Atari Interactive, Inc. All rights reserved. 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