Eidos Interactive's Fate of the Dragon Goes Gold; Real-time Strategy Game Set in 14th Century China Arrives in Stores March 13.Entertainment Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--March 8, 2001 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. , (Nasdaq:EIDSY), a leading worldwide interactive entertainment publisher, today announced that its real-time strategy game for the PC, Fate Of The Dragon, has gone gold and will ship to stores beginning March 12. Developed by Overmax Studio, Fate of the Dragon is based on the 14th century historical Chinese novel entitled Romance of the Three Kingdoms Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Traditional Chinese: 三國演義; Simplified Chinese: 三国演义; Pinyin: . Fate of the Dragon is set in the confusion following the collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Gamers play the role of one of three rival warlords Warlords may refer to:
tr.v. re·u·ni·fied, re·u·ni·fy·ing, re·u·ni·fies To cause (a group, party, state, or sect) to become unified again after being divided. China. "Eidos is thrilled to have the opportunity to publish Fate of the Dragon," states Tom Marx, Producer at Eidos Interactive. "Fate of the Dragon takes the engrossing engrossing, in English law, practice of acquiring a monopoly of goods in order to sell them at an inflated price. The offense was ordinarily limited to monopolies of foods. Related practices were forestalling, i.e. elements of strategy games including combat and resource collection, wraps them in an engaging story and presents them in the mystical beauty of ancient China." Fate of the Dragon features three kingdoms, each with unique technologies, buildings and characters realistically modeled from the actual technological, cultural and social development of the era. The players' objective is to establish comprehensive power through production, construction, trade, science and technology, alliances and war. Gamers will embark on political, trade and strategic campaigns to win control of the kingdoms, all of which are based on historically significant events of the Three Kingdoms' period. Fate of the Dragon also includes head-to-head and cooperative multi-player support for up to eight players via LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. or the Internet. Eidos Interactive's Background Information Eidos Interactive, Inc. is a leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment products for the PC, PlayStation(R) and PlayStation(R)2 game consoles, Sega Dreamcast(TM), Nintendo(R) Game Boy(R) Color and the Xbox(TM) video game console A specialized desktop computer used to play video games. The three most popular game consoles are Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3), Nintendo's GameCube and Microsoft's Xbox. Game software is available on CDs or DVDs, although earlier game machines used cartridges containing read only memory from Microsoft. Eidos Interactive is part of London-based Eidos plc with additional offices in San Francisco, Paris, Hamburg, Tokyo and Singapore. For more information on Eidos Interactive's product line visit http://www.eidos.com. |
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