DreamCatcher Games Announces Line-up for Electronic Entertainment Exposition 2003 Toronto, April 22nd, 2003, DreamCatcher Games today announced its full line-up for the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). The company will be showcasing 5 new products, including the much anticipated Painkiller on PC and Arx Fatalis on Xbox. “With such a strong and diverse portfolio, this is set to be our most exciting E3 ever,” commented DreamCatcher Games CEO, Richard Wah Kan, “we have some great new games that we’re anxious to show off, and look forward to the positive impressions our line-up will create at this year’s show .” Two products will stand out at E3 for DreamCatcher Games. The first is Painkiller, the company’s head-lining product - a stunning first-person shooter for the PC. The second is Arx Fatalis – the critically acclaimed PC game being shown on Xbox for the first time. BattleCruiser Generations, Pilot Down and X-treme Beach Soccer complete the line-up. Details of these products and the full line-up follows: Painkiller PC only Developed by People Can Fly Release Date: September, 2003 This first-person horror shooter takes ‘Painkiller,’ a mercenary for hire, and puts him smack in the middle of his favorite environment - the home of the undead. Painkiller uses the Havok™ physics engine allowing inverse kinematics and deformable, interactive environments. A proprietary 3D engine puts out 100 times the polygons of some of the latest FPS games. Arx Fatalis Xbox Developed by Arkane Studios Release Date: Q4, 2003 Venture into the underworld and fight your way through goblins, trolls and snake-women... Turn the lights off, sneak into the shadows and backstab your enemies. Visit the great Arx city and stroll through its streets and its shops. Solve the mysteries of the snake-women and free the world from its evil future. To have a chance to withstand your opponents, craft your own weapons, brew potions in alchemist’s odd laboratories and enchant artifacts with powerful spells. BattleCruiser Generations PC Developed by 3000 A.D. Release Date: August, 2003 BattleCruiser Generations is the fourth title in the acclaimed BattleCruiser series. Taking off from where its predecessor left off, BattleCruiser Generations takes the series further into the epic realms of sci-fi greatness with a suite of brand new engines, features and gameplay enhancements. Pilot Down (US Only) PlayStation 2, Xbox, PC Developed by Wide Games Release Date: Winter, 2003 It’s winter 1944 and your plane has just been shot down over Germany. The manhunt is now on! Pursued by the Germans, all you have is your army back-pack and your only hope of survival is to reach Switzerland on foot. Equipped with an arsenal of authentic WWII weapons, infiltrate, sneak and shoot your way through nine increasingly dangerous levels spanning war-torn Europe. X-treme Beach Soccer (US Only) Xbox, PC, GBA Developed by PAM Development Release Date: September, 2003 The first Beach Soccer video game ever offers all of the excitement of this new sport and takes soccer excitement to a new level. This arcade game is set in the unique and exotic atmosphere of stadiums from Rio to Venice. X-treme Beach Soccer is a terrific new game with cool looking players, spectacular moves, laser shows and DJs playing hot original tunes.