Besieger Coming in Spring 2004

DreamCatcher Games to Publish Besieger Multi-player Real-time 3D Strategy Comes to PC-CD Toronto ? November 26th 2003, DreamCatcher Games today announced that it will publish Besieger for the PC-CD in North-America and Europe. This new real-time 3D strategy is set in a medieval fantasy world in which rival players wage war as either Viking or Cimmerian warriors. Gamers will need to conquer factions such as Ogres, Werewolves and Centaurs and besiege towns on horseback or build primitive flying machines to win their battles. Users will also have to smash their way into the enemy?s heavily defended Citadels, while in turn defending their own domains. Besieger is story-based and involves a series of quests that determine the game?s eventual outcome. As well as the bloody battles, each player must create an economy to allow them to construct or upgrade 40 types of buildings and more than 50 different units for battle. They will also ?create? and train workers for fighting and other key skills. This experience and fighting efficiency carries over as each level is conquered. The impressive feature set also includes: ? Powerful DirectX? 9-compliant, proprietary 3D game engine using real-time terraforming and LoD (Level of Detail), allowing the game to provide zoom-in or zoom-out views, without any fog. ? Epic battles involving hundreds of single opponents. ? Cinematographic and entirely free camera with convenient control modes, to allowing for first-person battles. ? Twelve huge levels with photorealistic landscapes, located in mountains, deserts, forests, etc., with thousands of trees, stones and other objects on each level. ? Hundreds of high-polygon models boasting skeletal animations and all-encompassing damage model. ? Realistic sky (sun, moon, clouds and stars) as well as day/night and weather management will provide unparalleled immersion. ? Up to 16 person LAN and Internet multi-player with a variety of modes Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Cooperative, Hold Artifact, King of the Hill, Free for all. The game is developed by Primal Software, Moscow and it will ship in spring 2004. It will also ship with a map editor and script-language support. A game trailer, screenshots and basic game information can be found at http://www.besieger.com.