Eidos Targets Your Town as the Stage for Top Dollar Carnage in Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood
23 4월 2004 - 2:15AM
PR Newswire (US)
Eidos Targets Your Town as the Stage for Top Dollar Carnage in
Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood The Extreme World
of Backyard Wrestling Is Back And This Time The Mayhem Is ONLINE!
SAN FRANCISCO, April 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eidos , one of
the world's leading publishers and developers of entertainment
software, today announced its return to the world of extreme
wrestling with Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood.
The sequel to the genre- bending phenomenon Backyard Wrestling:
Don't Try This At Home, Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The
Neighborhood is currently in development by Paradox and will be
available for videogame consoles including the Xbox(R) video game
system from Microsoft in the Fall of 2004 in North America.
"Harnessing the power of the Enviro-Mental(TM) gameplay engine,
Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood will continue
blazing the trail of unprecedented environmental interaction and
over the top violence," says Kevin Gill, Brand Manager at Eidos.
"The inclusion of online play will finally allow gamers to deliver
pain to opponents from around the world. With its completely
re-designed and expanded create-a-wrestler system, an impressive
new grappling system, more diverse move-set, solid hardcore
soundtrack, and online play, BYW2 offers the complete wrestling
package this Fall." Eidos has partnered with Quazal to incorporate
online play into Backyard Wrestling 2. Quazal's SyncSim for Net-Z
engine is a deterministic networking system, allowing stations to
connect and play against each other with no chance of divergence.
So, when gamers have got an opponent lined up for a moonsault off
of a ladder, and timing is critical, they know that everything is
synchronized perfectly between the connected stations. You can
learn more about Net-Z at http://www.quazal.com/ "We're really
happy to have Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood be
the first title to ship with support for Quazal's Net-Z SyncSim
technology," said Mike Drummelsmith, Developer Relations Manager at
Quazal. "The Net-Z SyncSim tech allowed Paradox and Eidos to
rapidly bring the game online, and let them focus their development
on making the best playing online game possible." Backyard
Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood places gamers deep in the
heart of Small Town America, USA. Backyard Wrestling Inc. has
announced "your town" as the location of its first live pay per
view. They've put a million dollars cash prize on the line for the
wrestler who's got what it takes to destroy every obstacle in their
way to the main event and ultimately the unified BYW championship.
Defeating the most hardcore backyard wrestlers will not be enough,
as the lure of "easy money" has attracted the attention of the most
violent professional wrestlers to ever set foot in a ring. When
hardcore backyard brawlers, chair-swinging backyard babes and blood
thirsty professional wrestlers choose your town as their battle
field...There Goes The Neighborhood! The genre-busting Backyard
Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood boasts an extensive list
of new features further breaking the mold of today's traditional
wrestling titles. The implementation of the Enviro-Mental(TM)
engine in BYW2 delivers an unprecedented level of interaction with
environments, objects and non-player characters. The new and
improved graphic system delivers more polygons on the characters
and higher resolution textures in the environments. A completely
revamped wrestling and animation system raises the ability to
inflict copious amounts of pain to an opponent to nearly infinite
levels. Standing and ground based submissions, multi-position
grappling, a block button body and an even deeper location-specific
damage system all play into the carnage! Players will battle
through both an enhanced single player experience, complete with
death matches and a "quest for the belt" mode, or the ever popular,
greatly expanded multi-player scenarios. The addition of Online
game- play places the mayhem of BYW2 directly in your living room.
Talk trash straight to your opponent using the USB Headset and
establish yourself as the number one wrestler with the complete
online ladder bracketing system. The list of licensed backyard
brawlers has grown immensely, including stars from the explosive
home video series, as well as some of the craziest pro wrestlers to
ever set foot in a ring. The completely redesigned
Create-A-Wrestler System allows gamers to get creative and craft
their own alter-ego with. The new robust C.A.W. allows for the
customization of a backyard brawler from the ground up, including
Tattoo's, Face Paint, Customized Clothing, and more! About Eidos
Eidos plc is one of the world's leading publishers and developers
of entertainment software with a diverse mix of titles for the PC,
PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system, Nintendo
GameCube(TM) and the Xbox(R) video game system from Microsoft. For
more information on Eidos and its products visit
http://www.eidos.com/ About Quazal Quazal is the leading supplier
of multiplayer middleware with a community of over 150 network
programmers using its products to propel the next generation of
multiplayer games. Quazal revolutionized network programming by
rendering obsolete the traditional packet/socket paradigm.
Programmers now have access to network-aware C++ objects that
automatically synchronize themselves across any possible topology:
client/server, peer-to-peer or hybrid. Numerous features such as
data extrapolation, integration kits with other middleware and a
wide array of debugging tools makes Quazal's product a boon for any
online game development project. Quazal's products are currently
available for PlayStation(R) 2, Xbox(R), Windows(R), Pocket PC, and
Linux. For more information and demonstrations visit
http://www.quazal.com/ *Xbox is a registered trademark of Microsoft
Corporation in the United States and /or other countries. *Quazal
and Net-Z are trademarks of Quazal. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners. DATASOURCE: Eidos CONTACT:
Michelle Seebach Curran, Kjell Vistad, Denny Chiu or Loretta
Stevens, all of Eidos Inc. North America, +1-415-547-1200 or Web
site: http://www.eidos.com/
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