Sierra Re-Launches Official Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom Website New Site Features Updated Product Information, Media, and Community Center for First City Building Game with Online Multiplayer BELLEVUE, WA (August 1, 2002) - Sierra(tm) Entertainment, Inc., a studio of the Games division of Vivendi Universal Publishing, today announced that it has re-launched the official website for its upcoming City Building game, Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom(tm). The site can be accessed at http://emperor.sierra.com/. The new website features news, highlights of the game, video trailers, soundtrack files, and community resources for the first-ever city building game with Internet multiplayer. Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom offers gamers their first opportunity to play a city building game with their friends, online via the Internet. A great variety of both collaborative and competitive multiplayer games will be offered. Players may need to collaborate in building one of China's engineering marvels, or they may share a common goal to attain a certain level of affluence. In competitive multiplay, players take sides - or may be a side unto themselves - and fight for sole power over China. Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom brings city builders inside the Great Wall of China. Leaving the Mediterranean behind, the city-building series makes its first foray into Asia and immerses the player in brand new surroundings. China has existed for over 4,000 years, but its 4,000 year history has been marked with new technologies and ideas replacing - or enhancing - the old. This is the world in which the player will take the reigns of leadership and take their cities through the twists and turns of Chinese history.