SegaSoft Ships Flesh Feast; HEAT.NET-Enabled Gorefest.REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 1998--SegaSoft Networks Inc.(TM) has shipped its highly anticipated Flesh Feast(TM), a 3-D horror action-strategy game that combines the blood, gore and skin-crawling creepiness of a Hollywood horror film with the very best in white-knuckle gameplay value. "Flesh Feast is definitely not for those plagued by bad dreams and troubled sleep," said Gary Griffiths, SegaSoft president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Played alone or across the HEAT.NET(TM) Internet Game Network, Flesh Feast will work its way under your skin and raise the hair on the back of your neck. This is one creepy title, true gore fiends will love it." Flesh Feast Scenario Hordes of hideous corpses have come to life and are preying on human inhabitants
The game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. . Players must kill the 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. , save the humans, survive the onslaught of the undead un·dead adj. No longer living but supernaturally animated, as a zombie. , and solve clues to reveal the source of the unholy resurrection. Flesh Feast features 14 levels of blood-spattered carnage with multiple subplots. Players choose from two modes of play. Simultaneous Command directs the actions of four human characters, with the player switching from character to character on the fly to battle swarms of zombies, either one-on-one or by luring them in groups into ghastly death traps. The player can move and attack by using the mouse in a point-and-click fashion. In Single Command mode, the player fully directs the actions of one character, dictating every attack and defense move. Flesh Feast includes more than 30 different weapons, each with its unique zombie-killing capabilities, such as shredding, decapitation Decapitation See also Headlessness. Antoinette, Marie (1755–1793) queen of France beheaded by revolutionists. [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 1697] Argos lulled to sleep and beheaded by Hermes. [Gk. Myth. and impalement im·pale also em·pale tr.v. im·paled, im·pal·ing, im·pales 1. a. To pierce with a sharp stake or point. b. To torture or kill by impaling. 2. . In vivid 3-D graphic detail, zombies maim maim v. to inflict a serious bodily injury, including mutilation or any harm which limits the victim's ability to function physically. Originally, in English Common Law it meant to cut off or permanently cripple a bodily member like an arm, leg, hand, or foot. and eat the living. Tastefully gruesome displays include spurting blood, rolling heads and slithering slith·er v. slith·ered, slith·er·ing, slith·ers v.intr. 1. To glide or slide like a reptile. See Synonyms at slide. 2. To walk with a sliding or shuffling gait. 3. intestines. Single-player mode pits the player against the machine. In multiplayer mode, up to eight players can square off as human and zombie teams or pull out all the stops in "eat your friends" death matches. No matter how it's served, Flesh Feast is a smorgasbord of adrenaline -- and sweat-soaked horror. Flesh Feast is available now at software and computer retailers nationwide for a suggested retail price of $49.95. The CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). includes three free months of HEAT.NET Premium membership and a $10.00 mail-in rebate. Frequent tournaments and events will be held on HEAT.NET Degrees (HEAT frequent player points) and other prizes rewarding the winner. The first event is the Feastival tournament which will run during the last two weeks in June with daily "eat your friends" death-match tournaments on www.heat.net. The Feastival will culminate with a 60 minute gore-fest starting at midnight, June 26 in which SegaSoft CEO, Gary Griffiths will offer $100 cash and other prizes to any zombie who successfully eats him while on HEAT.NET. System Requirements Windows(R) 95 IBM PC, Pentium 133, 28.8 kpbs modem required for HEAT.NET, 16 megs RAM (32 recommended), 2 megs RAM Microsoft DirectX compatible video card, Microsoft DirectX compatible sound card, Microsoft Direct 3-D accelerator hardware support (requires 4 megs of RAM) and 4x CD-ROM drive. About HEAT.NET SegaSoft's HEAT.NET Internet Game Network is the premiere Internet gaming platform combining original SegaSoft and third-party games, commerce, community and competitive features into the ultimate online gaming arena. HEAT.NET offers both a free and premium membership service. Gameplay is free for all members, but only premium members are able to use their Degrees, HEAT.NET frequent player points, to purchase merchandise in HEAT.NET's online store. Located at www.heat.net, HEAT.NET currently has a featured game list of 40 games (literally hundreds more are playable thanks to HEAT's proprietary software). The service has attracted more than 225,000 members since its full-scale commercial launch in September 1997 (updated 4/28/98). SegaSoft is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. whose shareholders include CSK CSK see chronic superficial keratitis. and Sega Enterprises. Founded in 1995 SegaSoft develops and publishes content and technology for PC CD-ROM and Internet games. SegaSoft is headquarted in Redwood City, where it employs 130 people. -0- Note to Editors: SegaSoft, Flesh Feast, HEAT and HEAT.NET are trademarks of SegaSoft Networks Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owner. Flesh Feast is rated M (mature gamers 17 or older) by the ESRB ESRB Entertainment Software Rating Board ESRB Estrogen Receptor Beta ESRB Explosive Safety Review Board . The game contains animated blood and gore as well as animated violence. CONTACT: Access Communications Christa Hovis/Anne Magor, 415/904-7070, ext. 285 or 288 chovis@accesspr.com amagor@accesspr.com |
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