Gaming News - August 2002
Bellevue, WA (August 1, 2002) - Sierra Entertainment today announced
that it is working with Intel Corporation and iGames as co-sponsors of a
worldwide tournament that will bring gamers together to crown the world's best
Empire Earth players this September.
From Sierra:
The Empire Earth World Championships consist of a series of tournaments held
internationally, culminating in a Championship Tournament where the best of the
best Empire Earth combatants will face off in hopes of winning the Grand Prize
of US$20,000 and a chance to increase that amount to US$100,000. The
Championship Tournament will highlight the upcoming expansion pack to Empire
Earth, Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest(tm).
The tournament will begin with regional competitions held in more than a
dozen different countries across the globe. Winners of each regional final will
move on to national competition and national winners will be sent to the Empire
Earth Worldwide Championships in Munich, Germany in October where the greatest
conqueror of our time will be crowned.
Competition rules and further details about the Empire Earth World
Championships can be found online at
www.empireearth.com beginning August 15th, 2002.
The Empire Earth World Championships will highlight Sierra Entertainment's
upcoming expansion pack to its award winning real-time strategy game, Empire
Earth. Released in November 2001, Empire Earth is a worldwide hit, with more
than one million copies sold. The game has won numerous industry awards,
including PC Game of the Year honors from GameSpy.com, a "Gold Award" accolade
by PC Action magazine in Germany, and a "Trophy Award" for special achievement
in gaming from PC Team magazine in France.
Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest includes three new single-player campaigns
set in ancient Rome, the Pacific Theater of World War II, and Asia in the 22nd
century. In addition, each of the 21 pre-designed civilizations in the game
gains a unique special power, building, or unit. Examples include: the Kingdom
of Italy's Metallurgy power, which allows them to pay building costs with gold
or iron interchangeably; Great Britain's S.A.S. unit will be able to plant
demolitions and swim across water; and the United States' market building will
allow that civilization to trade abundant resources for scarce ones.
In Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest, gamers can become the greatest
conqueror of all time by creating, building, and leading a civilization to
transcend the ages - from the discovery of fire, to flight, to the next
frontier: space.
From Prehistory to the Space Age of the 22nd Century, Empire Earth serves up
gaming on an epic scale. Empire Earth and Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest
cover over 500,000 years of human history, from the discovery of fire to the
laser battles of the future. Each player takes control of a fledgling
civilization and strives to forge the greatest of all empires.
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