Smash Cars unveiled

Take A Peek At Metro3D's Smash CarsTM for Sony PlayStation® 2 Now Showing At The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) New Arcade-Style Racing Game Puts Players Behind the Wheel For A Wild Ride Through Off-Road Thrills and High-Speed Spills SAN JOSE, California (May 22, 2002) - Metro3D, Inc., the multi-platform video game developer and publisher, announced today it will introduce Smash CarsTM for Sony PlayStation® 2, now on display at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. Scheduled for release in Q1 2003, Smash Cars is a no rules radio-controlled arcade-style racing game developed by Creat Studio, LLC, a full-service 3-dimensional animation, digital visual effects, and game development studio. "Smash Cars brings added horsepower to our 2003 line-up as an exciting off-road car racing game that will entertain PlayStation fans for hours on end," said Joseph Morici, senior vice president, sales and marketing, Metro3D. "Car racing games remain a hugely popular genre and with Smash Cars' super-realistic control, suspension and physics, this title brings an entirely new level of game play rarely seen in racing games." In the game, Smash Cars drivers steer remote-control cars in a high-speed race where daily life is in full swing with giant objects and people interacting with and hindering the path of your tiny car. Don't drop the hammer too fast or people, animals, cars and a variety of other real-world obstacles may spin you into trouble. A one- or two-player game, Smash Cars provides special control features including power boosts, jumps, and the most realistic physics for enhanced driving action. The game'simpressive interactive environments and visual effects make game playing even more real featuring waves on the beach, engine smoke, dust, splashing water and more. For an extra challenge, players can run through special shortcuts or enter the Championship Mode, which allows players to upgrade with prize money and unlock new racing tracks. "Creat Studios, the creator of Smash Cars is an ideal development partner, with an impressive portfolio and track record in animation for commercials, film-quality pre-rendered cinematics for a number of high profile games, as well as digital effects for feature films," added Morici. Recent Creat Studio projects include: Millennium Racer from Cryo Interactive and film-quality pre-rendered cinematics for Jedi Knight II, Star Trek Armada II, Civilization: Call to Power, Heretic II, Battlezone, Zork Grand Inquisitor, Quake II Ground Zero Mission Pack, Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style, X-Men, Spiderman and Star Trek: Elite Force. Creat Studio has also done animation for commercials for such global brands as Coca Cola, Konica, and Kodak, and created broadcast designs for Russian TV channels as well as digital effects for feature films. The company has offices in San Francisco, CA and St. Petersburg, Russia.