Electronic Arts Busts Out With Road Rash Jailbreak for the PlayStation.Business Editors -- High Tech &Entertainment Writers REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 4, 2000 Free your buddy spaz spaz or spazz Offensive Slang n. pl. spazz·es One who is considered clumsy or inept. intr.v. spazzed, spazz·ing, spazz·es To be clumsy or inept. from the law in the toughest, most combatitive incarnation of road rash road rash Emergency medicine Deep skin abrasions caused by falling on and scraping skin on asphalt, which may affect bike riders, skateboarders, MVA victims and others yet! Electronic Arts will begin breaking out Road Rash(TM) Jailbreak(TM) for the PlayStation(R) console system this week, the latest in the highly successful Road Rash series of combat motorcycle racing motorcycle racing Sport of running motorcycles on tracks, closed circuits, or natural terrain. The main types are (1) road racing, conducted on a course made up wholly or partly of public roads; (2) trials, conducted both on and off the highway; (3) speedway racing, games and the first to offer a new story element. To date, Electronic Arts'rebellious motorcycle racing franchise has sold more than 3.5 million units worldwide across multiple platforms Refers to two or more operating environments, which typically include the CPU family and operating system. For example, if versions of a program run on Windows and the Macintosh, the software is said to support multiple platforms. . Road Rash Jailbreak introduces a first-ever story element into the Road Rash series and also for the first time allows players to race as a cop. The game offers all-new multiplayer modes such as the Sidecar 1. sidecar - Synonym slap on the side. Especially used of add-ons for the late and unlamented IBM PCjr. 2. sidecar - The IBM PC compatibility box that could be bolted onto the side of an Amiga. mode that allows up to four players to bash opponents, and introduces supermoves to give players even greater fighting prowess. In addition, the game has a unique music soundtrack featuring bands that are unsigned and/or from independent labels. In Jailbreak mode, the player must rescue Spaz, the greatest rasher of all time, from the men in blue. To accomplish this, players must first join one of two gangs and rise through the ranks by successfully completing tasks and challenges to prove they have the guts to save Spaz. Then and only then can they set out to free Spaz from the multitudes of cops that would like nothing better than to see you and Spaz rotting in the slammer A worm that caused a billion dollars worth of damage on the Internet on January 25, 2003. Slammer infected computers all over the Internet by generating random IP addresses and causing the computer's buffer to overflow with its own instructions that replicate itself and start the process . Another new way to vent aggression in Road Rash Jailbreak is the 5-0 mode that places the player in a police uniform. What was unthinkable in previous versions of Road Rash has now become reality. In 5-0 mode, players don the badge and go after ne'r do wells with a vengeance. At the start of the race, the player is given a certain gang member as their primary target. Racing against the clock, the gamer has the option of taking down that gangster or busting several other gang members to complete the level. For those players interested in tussling with their friends, Road Rash Jailbreak gives them what they want. In the all-new Sidecar mode, up to four players on two teams can beat on each other while driving at high speeds. In this mode one player does the driving while his partner, the &uot;monkey,&uot; fights off all comers from the sidecar. The driver and monkey both influence steering and the driver can even use his sidecar buddy as a special projectile projectile something thrown forward. projectile syringe see blow dart. projectile vomiting forceful vomiting, usually without preceding retching, in which the vomitus is thrown well forward. weapon to clear out the enemy or launch forward across the finish line. Of course, the team members can bludgeon each other if spats arise. Another multiplayer mode in Road Rash Jailbreak is the split-screen Skull to Skull, where two players square off against each other for a brawl-filled run for the checkered flag. As if all these new features were not enough, Road Rash Jailbreak also serves up a deliciously wicked assortment of combination and supermoves designed to pancake the opposition. Several of the supermoves are powerful enough to knock a challenger right off the screen! However, while being more powerful than a simple nunchuck to the head, the moves take time to deliver and leave the player vulnerable to attack. So great care must be taken when meting out the KO punch. Music has always played an important part of Road Rash history. For Road Rash Jailbreak, Electronic Arts again pushed the envelope by holding a first-ever, nationwide music search for unsigned and independent label bands to supply the game's raw, in-your-face soundtrack. The chosen bands and songs were selected from hundreds of submissions throughout North America. These songs best represent the aggressive, combative attitude of the Road Rash experience. The game supports Dual Shock(TM) analog controllers. Road Rash Jailbreak for the PlayStation was developed and is being published by Electronic Arts in North America. The game carries an ESRB ESRB Entertainment Software Rating Board ESRB Estrogen Receptor Beta ESRB Explosive Safety Review Board rating of &uot;T&uot; (Teen) and has a MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) of $49.95. More information on the Road Rash Jailbreak title can be found on the EA product web site: http://www.roadrash.com. Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: ERTS ERTS Electronic Arts, Inc. (stock symbol) ERTS Earth Resources Technology Satellite (US NASA) ERTS Embedded Real Time Systems ERTS Enhanced Remote Transit Shed ), headquartered in Redwood City, California Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Redwood City is the county seat of San Mateo County. As of the 2005 census, the city had a total population of 76,000. , is the world's leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, Electronic Arts posted revenues of more than $1.2 billion for fiscal 1999. The company develops, publishes and distributes software worldwide for personal computers and video game systems. Electronic Arts markets its products under eight brand names: Electronic Arts(TM), EA SPORTS(TM), Maxis(TM), ORIGIN(TM), Bullfrog bullfrog, common name of the largest North American frog, Rana catesbeiana. Native to the E United States, this species has been successfully introduced in the West and in other parts of the world. The body length is 4 to 8 in. (TM) Productions, Westwood Studios(TM), Gonzo Games(TM) and Jane's(R) Combat Simulations. More information about EA's products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at http://www.ea.com. Note to Editors: Electronic Arts, EA SPORTS, ORIGIN, Bullfrog, Maxis, Westwood Studios, Gonzo Games, Road Rash and Jailbreak are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts. Jane's is a registered trademark of Jane's Information Group Ltd. All rights reserved. PlayStation is a registered trademark and Dual Shock is a trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. |
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