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Eidos Targets Your Town as the Stage for Top Dollar Carnage in
Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood
The Extreme World of Backyard Wrestling Is Back And This Time The Mayhem Is
ONLINE!
SAN FRANCISCO, April 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eidos , one of the world's
leading publishers and developers of entertainment software, today announced
its return to the world of extreme wrestling with Backyard Wrestling 2: There
Goes The Neighborhood. The sequel to the genre- bending phenomenon Backyard
Wrestling: Don't Try This At Home, Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The
Neighborhood is currently in development by Paradox and will be available for
videogame consoles including the Xbox(R) video game system from Microsoft in
the Fall of 2004 in North America.
"Harnessing the power of the Enviro-Mental(TM) gameplay engine, Backyard
Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood will continue blazing the trail of
unprecedented environmental interaction and over the top violence," says Kevin
Gill, Brand Manager at Eidos. "The inclusion of online play will finally allow
gamers to deliver pain to opponents from around the world. With its completely
re-designed and expanded create-a-wrestler system, an impressive new grappling
system, more diverse move-set, solid hardcore soundtrack, and online play, BYW2
offers the complete wrestling package this Fall."
Eidos has partnered with Quazal to incorporate online play into Backyard
Wrestling 2. Quazal's SyncSim for Net-Z engine is a deterministic networking
system, allowing stations to connect and play against each other with no chance
of divergence. So, when gamers have got an opponent lined up for a moonsault
off of a ladder, and timing is critical, they know that everything is
synchronized perfectly between the connected stations. You can learn more about
Net-Z at http://www.quazal.com/
"We're really happy to have Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood
be the first title to ship with support for Quazal's Net-Z SyncSim technology,"
said Mike Drummelsmith, Developer Relations Manager at Quazal. "The Net-Z
SyncSim tech allowed Paradox and Eidos to rapidly bring the game online, and
let them focus their development on making the best playing online game
possible."
Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood places gamers deep in the
heart of Small Town America, USA. Backyard Wrestling Inc. has announced "your
town" as the location of its first live pay per view. They've put a million
dollars cash prize on the line for the wrestler who's got what it takes to
destroy every obstacle in their way to the main event and ultimately the
unified BYW championship.
Defeating the most hardcore backyard wrestlers will not be enough, as the lure
of "easy money" has attracted the attention of the most violent professional
wrestlers to ever set foot in a ring. When hardcore backyard brawlers,
chair-swinging backyard babes and blood thirsty professional wrestlers choose
your town as their battle field...There Goes The Neighborhood!
The genre-busting Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood boasts an
extensive list of new features further breaking the mold of today's traditional
wrestling titles. The implementation of the Enviro-Mental(TM) engine in BYW2
delivers an unprecedented level of interaction with environments, objects and
non-player characters. The new and improved graphic system delivers more
polygons on the characters and higher resolution textures in the environments.
A completely revamped wrestling and animation system raises the ability to
inflict copious amounts of pain to an opponent to nearly infinite levels.
Standing and ground based submissions, multi-position grappling, a block button
body and an even deeper location-specific damage system all play into the
carnage!
Players will battle through both an enhanced single player experience, complete
with death matches and a "quest for the belt" mode, or the ever popular,
greatly expanded multi-player scenarios. The addition of Online game- play
places the mayhem of BYW2 directly in your living room. Talk trash straight to
your opponent using the USB Headset and establish yourself as the number one
wrestler with the complete online ladder bracketing system. The list of
licensed backyard brawlers has grown immensely, including stars from the
explosive home video series, as well as some of the craziest pro wrestlers to
ever set foot in a ring. The completely redesigned Create-A-Wrestler System
allows gamers to get creative and craft their own alter-ego with. The new
robust C.A.W. allows for the customization of a backyard brawler from the
ground up, including Tattoo's, Face Paint, Customized Clothing, and more!
About Eidos
Eidos plc is one of the world's leading publishers and developers of
entertainment software with a diverse mix of titles for the PC, PlayStation(R)2
computer entertainment system, Nintendo GameCube(TM) and the Xbox(R) video game
system from Microsoft. For more information on Eidos and its products visit
http://www.eidos.com/
About Quazal
Quazal is the leading supplier of multiplayer middleware with a community of
over 150 network programmers using its products to propel the next generation
of multiplayer games. Quazal revolutionized network programming by rendering
obsolete the traditional packet/socket paradigm. Programmers now have access to
network-aware C++ objects that automatically synchronize themselves across any
possible topology: client/server, peer-to-peer or hybrid. Numerous features
such as data extrapolation, integration kits with other middleware and a wide
array of debugging tools makes Quazal's product a boon for any online game
development project. Quazal's products are currently available for
PlayStation(R) 2, Xbox(R), Windows(R), Pocket PC, and Linux. For more
information and demonstrations visit http://www.quazal.com/
*Xbox is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States
and /or other countries.
*Quazal and Net-Z are trademarks of Quazal.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
DATASOURCE: Eidos
CONTACT: Michelle Seebach Curran, Kjell Vistad, Denny Chiu or Loretta
Stevens, all of Eidos Inc. North America, +1-415-547-1200 or
Web site: http://www.eidos.com/