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NovaLogic Battles the Undead; Necrocide: The Dead Must Die Scheduled for Spring 2001.


Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

CALABASAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 6, 2000

After years of pitting computer gamers against real-world military forces and ruthless terrorists in games like Comanche(R), F-22 Lightning II(R) and Delta Force(R), NovaLogic has announced its intent to tackle an entirely different evil: the Undead un·dead  
adj.
No longer living but supernaturally animated, as a zombie.
.

Necrocide: The Dead Must Die(TM), set for release in the second quarter of 2001, is an action game that casts the player as a vengeful huntress determined to exterminate hordes Hordes may refer to:
  • Social and military structures of nomadic Turkic peoples in the Middle Ages; see:
  • Golden Horde
  • Tatar invasions
  • The miniature war game HORDES
See also
 of evil beasties. The world's fate is in good hands -- no one knows how to kill the undead better than our heroine, since she happens to be a vampire.

The game, set in present-day and in real-world locations, sends players up against werewolves, necromancers, zombies Zombies

Companies that continue to operate even though they are insolvent. Also known as living dead.

Notes:
It's advisable to avoid investing in zombies at all costs their life expectancies are highly unpredictable.
, succubae, demons Demons
See also devil; evil; ghosts; hell; spirits and spiritualism.

ademonist

one who denies the existence of the devil or demons.

bogyism, bogeyism

recognition of the existence of demons and goblins.
, and hellhounds. The heroine will be armed to the fangs with an arsenal of traditional and technologically advanced weapons and all manner of vampiric powers.

Built on the same fully accelerated 3D graphics engine as Delta Force: Land Warrior Land Warrior was a United States Army program, cancelled in 2007,[1][2] that would have used a combination of commercial, off-the-shelf technology (COTS) and current-issue military gear and equipment designed to:
, Necrocide(TM) will feature a combination of vast outdoor environments and large, complex interiors. As with all of NovaLogic games, large-scale multi-player will be supported via NovaWorld(R), the company's free Internet gaming service.

Founded in 1985, NovaLogic Inc. is a leading developer and publisher of entertainment software. Subsidiaries include NovaLogic Systems, based in NovaLogic's Calabasas, California Calabasas is a city in Los Angeles County, California, in the western United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 23,123. The city was formally incorporated in 1991. , headquarters, and NovaLogic Ltd. in London.
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