FAR GATE: Experience fleet battles on a galactic scale!

Montreal, Quebec. Aug 14th, 2001 - Critically acclaimed across Europe, Far Gate, winner of the '2000 Independent Games Festival Audience Choice Award', is a space strategy combat game that features fleet battles on a massive scale. Now, the North American invasion will begin September 11th at a store near you.

A North American release from games publisher, Microids, and developed by Super X Studios (Seattle), Far Gate is an exciting and atmospheric race against time. Building space stations and amassing your own fleet of interstellar warriors, you hope to defend Earth's colonists against a Universal alien threat - and discover the true nature of the Imperial Navy's mission at Proxima.

The game takes you on a white-knuckle ride across the Galaxy through inter-linked Wormholes into another space and time, where only your strategic skills and fast reactions can save you and the colonists you protect. Played out within a truly massive setting that spans tens of solar systems containing literally thousands of objects, Far Gate is an epic tale of courage and determination.

Far Gate begins where games like Homeworld and StarFleet Armada left off - in terms of interface, visuals, and gameplay - raising the stakes as the next generation of 3D RTS titles, and expanding the genre into a new experience for gamers. Even the alien enemy has been created using Super X Studios own proprietary geometry warping algorithm, giving it a fluid, organic feel. Each mission takes place in a unique solar system filled with true-to-life celestial wonders - stars, planets, moons, nebulae, asteroid belts, wormholes, spatial anomalies, etc, all physically modelled in an entirely dynamic system. A typical mission may involve some several HUNDRED spacecraft and last over two hours!

Far Gate will have strong appeal to fans of real-time strategy games, with all the core elements of RTS games extended into an almost infinite space setting controlled via a simple, intuitive interface.

The game features: · Distinctive state-of-the-art visual effects · Fast-paced action that keeps the game moving, with the ability to watch the action from a 1st person perspective · Scalable 3D Engine that supports low-end PC's while taking advantage of the very latest features in high-end machines (bump mapping, detail mapping, texture compression, hardware Transform-and-Lighting, etc) · Easy to use and innovative full 3D Interface · Dynamic 3D battlefield with massive solar systems containing thousands of objects · Advanced physics Engine giving smooth, realistic motion to every object in the game · Engaging, cinematic single-player storyline with 16 missions set in solar systems across the galaxy · 2-4 player Multiplayer via LAN, modem, or Internet · 3 Unique Races, with 25 distinctive units each, including 2 alien races unlike anything seen in any 3D space game before!

Far Gate is simply an awesome game to watch and to play. Never before has a real-time strategy title been so immersive, sucking the player right into the middle of an epic space adventure.

Download the demo at www.far-gate.com

Titus Interactive has reached an agreement with Microïds for the rights to distribute its interactive entertainment titles exclusively throughout the USA.

Developed by Super X Studios, located in sunny Seattle, Washington, was founded in 1996 and is enjoying the success of their first independently developed PC title, "Far Gate", winner of the 2000 Independent Games Festival Audience Award. More information on Super X Studios and screen shots of "Far Gate" can be found at http://www.superxstudios.com

Published by Microïds was founded in 1985 by its current chairman, Elliot Grassiano, Microïds develops, publishes and distributes video game software for PCs and games consoles throughout the world. With studios in Paris and Montreal, and direct distribution in France, Italy, United Kingdom and Canada; Microïds currently employs 200 staff, 110 of which are overseas. More comprehensive information on Microids and its products is available through its worldwide website at http://www.microids.com

Distributed by Titus Interactive was founded in 1985 by Hervé and Eric Caen. The company has quickly grown into one of the world's leading multi-platform software developers and publishers. Titus has developed a number of highly acclaimed games for both PC and console. With offices in Paris, Los Angeles, London, Madrid, Hamburg, Oslo and Tokyo, the company has established an extensive distribution network. More comprehensive information on Titus Interactive and its products is available through its worldwide web site at http://www.titusgames.com