Gaming News - September 2006

San Francisco, CA (September 18, 2006) - Ubisoft today announced that the Open Season video game is available on store shelves today for the Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance, PSP (PlayStation Portable) system and Windows PC.

From Ubisoft:

Developed by Ubisoft’s award-winning Montreal studio, Open Season allows gamers to relive the humor and adventure of the movie by creating a fun and immersive interactive world that mirrors the same comedic storyline, zany characters and amazingly artistic images projected in the animated film. Open Season is rated “E-10” for Everyone and has an MSRP of $49.99 for the Xbox 360, $19.99 for the PC and $29.99 for all other platforms.

“Sony Pictures Animation, along with Sony Pictures Consumer Products, worked very closely with Ubisoft's award winning development team in Montreal to create a video game that stays faithful to the movie.” said Tony Kee, vice president of marketing for Ubisoft. “This partnership allowed Ubisoft to seamlessly translate the character depth and humor of the movie’s storyline into a video game experience that remains true to the spirit of the film.”

Open Season is a riotous romp in the great outdoors, where the rowdy brood of forest animals turns the tables on a bunch of unsuspecting hunters. When a domesticated grizzly named Boog gets lured into leaving the creature comforts of home by a fast-talking mule deer named Elliot, he finds himself lost in the woods just three days before hunting season. Forced to “rough it” in the great outdoors, Boog goes native, rallying all the forest animals to take back their home and send the hunters packing. With the Open Season video game, players relive the movie experience by playing as Boog and Elliot. Game features include:

•Interaction with Beth, Shaw and all of the animal favorites from the Open Season film.
•Players can throw skunk bombs, hurl rabbits, command acorn-firing squirrels and pull outrageous woodland pranks, guaranteed to scare the pants off the hunters.
•Follow along through all the madcap adventures, like rolling in a giant snowball, riding the rapids on a floating outhouse and zipping through tunnels in a crazy mine cart ride, as Boog discovers how to become a truly wild grizzly.
•Challenge friends in hilarious four-player mini-games.