Video Gaming News - July 2005
New York, NY (July 19, 2005) - Atari today announced that Marc Ecko’s
Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure will be coming to the Xbox this fall.
From Atari:
Developed by The Collective, Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure
is a broad-based action-adventure inspired by graffiti’s historically rich and
diverse culture and is the culmination of seven years of story and character
development by Marc Ecko, the visionary behind several of today’s most respected
youth lifestyle brands.
Set in the city of New Radius, the game features a world where freedom of
expression is suppressed and graffiti has been outlawed by a tyrannical
government. In the game, players assume the role of Trane – voiced by hip-hop
artist Talib Kweli – as they learn and master various graf skills in a journey
from toy to legend. During their quest, players find themselves with an even
greater burden – to use their high-wire graffiti talents to expose an oppressive
mayor and rid the city of his stranglehold on New Radius.
“Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure brings an original vision
and point of view to gaming,” said Marc Metis, Senior Vice President of
Marketing for Atari. “With the Xbox and Windows versions now joining its
PlayStation 2 and mobile counterparts, we look forward to bringing this
experience to an even broader audience with the product’s simultaneous worldwide
launch.”
Marc Ecko’s Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure promises a new genre of
gameplay by combining urban navigation and vertical gameplay with graffiti,
street combat and sneak. The game uses a thrilling graffiti-driven framework to
tell its story of self-expression and the fight for creative freedom. A thug, an
outcast, and a rebel, the game’s protagonist, Trane, initially sets out to earn
his street cred by getting his graffiti tag up throughout the politically
oppressive city of New Radius only to find himself the unlikely leader of an
urban revolution.
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