Crave Entertainment Takes a Whirl Tour; New Game Blends Action, Adventure, and Extreme Sports.Entertainment Writers LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--May 6, 2002 Crave Entertainment Crave Entertainment is an American video game company. It was founded in 1997 by Nima Taghavi. Its headquarters is in Newport Beach, California. It is a division of Handleman Corporation, which acquired the company in 2005. , a leading publisher of videogame entertainment products, today announced the addition of Whirl Tour Whirl Tour is a video game of the sports genre released in 2002 by Papaya Studios. Story The band Flipside is performing a gig when all of a sudden the band members disapesr into a portal. The bands bag boy,Wasa. , a title offering a unique combination of action, extreme sports extreme sports Sports events characterized by high speed or high risk. Such sports include aggressive inline skating, wakeboarding, street luge, skateboarding, and freestyle bicycle events (wherein tricks such as back flips are performed on a bicycle). , and adventure, to its 2002 product line-up. Whirl Tour is being developed with Papaya Studio __NOEDITSECTION__ Papaya Studio is an independent American video game developer founded by Lin Shen in 1999, and based in Irvine, California. The team consists of highly experienced industry veterans from Squaresoft, Electronic Arts, and Looking Glass Studios who have worked on for the Nintendo GameCube The Nintendo GameCube (GCN) is Nintendo's fourth home video game console, belonging to the sixth generation era. The system itself is the most compact and least expensive, next to the Dreamcast, of the sixth generation era consoles. (TM) and PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system. "Whirl Tour will feature an engaging storyline, addictive game play and Papaya papaya (pəpī`ə), soft-stemmed tree (Carica papaya) of tropical America resembling a palm with a crown of palmately lobed leaves. Studio's 2nd generation Utopia(TM) console engine technology. Papaya's slick engine enables the creation of expansive, highly detailed and colorful environments, blazingly fast rendering speed and animation quality leading to incredibly smooth game play. Both the Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2 renderers were written to capitalize on the unique advantages of each platform," explained Mark Burke, senior vice president, Development, at Crave Entertainment. "Papaya and Crave have the goal of creating a unique and fun experience for gamers. Fast paced, trick oriented action, and open ended exploration will be rewarded not just with points, but by allowing you to save your friends and uncover the mystery of their disappearance." The Whirl Tour story begins when someone kidnaps six members of an "up and coming" rock band. The player, who starts in the role of the band's roadie road·ie n. A person engaged to load, unload, and set up equipment and to perform errands for rock musicians on tour. roadie Noun Brit, Austral & NZ informal , must save each of the band members and uncover the mystery of their capture. The action takes players through eight creative, colorfully rendered, interactive levels, like a castle, amusement park, and oil refinery, populated with pedestrians, traffic, animals and other animated objects. Rather than running around levels, players will utilize a variety of gas, electric, and rocket powered scooters. Mad skills and puzzle solving are key aspects of the game as players battle enemies, pull off a huge variety of tricks, unlock secret areas, grab musical tracks, and save their friends. As the band members are rescued, they become playable characters, which unleashes additional tricks and scooters. Whirl Tour will offer seven different modes including two player race, monster trick, split-screen versus, and even a cooperative mode. The anticipated release date for Whirl Tour is fourth quarter 2002. About Crave Entertainment Based in Los Angeles, Crave Entertainment is a privately held publisher of videogame entertainment products. The company's best-selling line-up features top brands and franchises such as Ultimate Fighting Championship This article covers the organization itself. For the inaugural event which went by the same name, see UFC 1. Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is a U.S.-based mixed martial arts (MMA) organization, currently recognized as the largest MMA promotion in the world. and Tokyo Xtreme Racer Tokyo Xtreme Racer, known as Shutokou Battle (首都高バトル) in Japan and Tokyo Highway Challenge in Europe, is one of the first launch games released for Sega Dreamcast in 1999. . Crave produces games for the major console platforms including GameBoy(R) Advance, Nintendo GameCube(TM), the PlayStation(R) game console, PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system, the Xbox(TM) video game system from Microsoft, and for the PC. For more information about Crave Entertainment, visit http://www.cravegames.com. Note to Editors: Xbox and Microsoft are trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. |
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