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Battle Arena Toshinden 3 serves up another ruthless round of the most realistic fighting game ever.


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 Interactive Entertainment unleashes new characters,

new graphics and more furious gameplay on your PlayStation

Sharpen your weapons!

May 12, Playmates Interactive Entertainment (P.I.E.) will unchain Battle Arena Toshinden 3, the latest installment in one of the hottest series of 3-D fighting games This section is an ongoing effort to catalogue every fighting title or series featured on Wikipedia. The vast majority of fighting games fall into two categories, versus fighters (usually referred to simply as fighting games), or beat 'em ups (a.k.a.  ever.

Set in newly redesigned, enclosed 3-D "fighting arenas," this new round of the Sony PlayStation mega-hit adds new characters, new graphics and improved, highly responsive game and control dynamics to the already-popular 360-degree rotation excitement.

Developed by Tamsoft for Takara Co. Ltd. in Japan, Battle Arena Toshinden 3 brings back the toughest and most ruthless characters that survived Battle Arena Toshinden 1 and 2 to defend their title, inflict new damage or just try to get out alive.

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 and deadly characters -- including more than 15 new fighters -- battle it out in the popular Toshinden series real-life fighting perspective with its different "camera angles" and its variety of fighting techniques, locales and opponents. The title will carry an estimated street price of $49.99.

"Battle Arena Toshinden 3 remains true to the series' tradition of setting the standard for 3-D fighting games," said David Localio, vice president, sales and marketing, P.I.E. "Without a doubt, this is the best Toshinden ever developed and a fighting game to be reckoned with."

The playing arena has been completely redesigned and closed in. Now there's nowhere to run if you're down and out. Players can use the walls, ceilings and floors to maneuver and pounce on the weak in 10 different, new arenas. And improved graphics deliver the battle in sucker-punching detail.

Battle Arena Toshinden 3 adds another exciting game to a slate of thrilling releases from Playmates Interactive. Upcoming releases include the tire-squealing, motocross motocross

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; and the sexy, sophisticated, third-person isometric view action game Meat Puppet. Playmates Interactive is a subsidiary of Playmates Toys Holdings Ltd., whose stock is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (Traditional Chinese: 香港交易所, also 港交所; abbreviated as HKEX; HKSE: 0388 ) is the stock exchange of Hong Kong. . -0- Note to Editors: P.I.E. is a trademark of Playmates Interactive Entertainment. Battle Arena Toshinden 3 and its characters are trademarks of 1995 Takara Co. Ltd. copyright 1997. All rights reserved. Licensed by Sony Computer Entertainment America for use with the PlayStation game console. PlayStation and PlayStation log are trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

CONTACT: P.I.E. News Bureau

David Gardner, 310/201-8806

dgardner@shandwick.com

Eric Hiss, 310/201-8817
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