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E3 2003: DroneZ Announced For Xbox

15th May 2003, 9:47pm
Metro3D, Inc. today showcased one of its most highly anticipated titles for 2003, DroneZ (pronounced "Drones") made exclusively for the Microsoft Xbox video game system.

DroneZ is now being previewed at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. Developed in partnership with Zetha GameZ, DroneZ for Xbox is scheduled for a nationwide release this August 2003.

This 3rd-person action shooter is based on the popular franchise for the personal computer, which earned high acclaim among hard core gaming enthusiasts worldwide.

"DroneZ is a fantastic video game property whose reputation for being a smart game with sophisticated graphics and game play is certain to make it one of the must-have Xbox titles of the summer," said Joseph Morici, senior vice president, sales and marketing, Metro3D. "We are thrilled to carry over DroneZ' popularity to the Xbox, where a whole new audience of die-hard gamers will fall in love with this compelling action-packed strategy shooter."

In DroneZ, players lead characters, Sidd, Eva or the bot "C1" on a mission to free mankind from the deadly V-Space Network, the computer enemy that controls the future. The V-Space Network is dominated by DroneZ, reptiloids, insectoids, and other cyber-insects who forbid people to disconnect. With the help of a hacker living in the "real world," players must fight to stay alive as they travel from various network memory locations and avoid the DroneZ deadly lasers. Defeat the DroneZ enemy protections with rapid-fire weapons and players steal victory.

DroneZ provides hours of intense game play and eye-popping cyberspace environments, including more than 200 rooms across 27 levels in nine major sections. A free-aiming weapon scanner, tons of bonus powers, shield generators, teleportals, force fields, and secondary weapons equip players for pinpoint attacks. Great Xbox-specific textures and effects such as realistic real-time lighting and shadows, reflection mapping, smooth camera and animation bring the most visually-compelling futuristic game to the Xbox video game system.

Developed by Zetha GameZ, DroneZ utilizes its proprietary 3-dimensional technology, which attributes to the game's visually stunning futuristic environments, detailed textures and special effects, including real-time lighting, shadows and animation. In just two years, the team developed a proprietary 3-dimensional technology to reach an outstanding quality in real-time rendering; this technology is based on the OpenGL API to fully exploit the latest hardware technologies and especially nVidia's nFiniteFX engine of the GeForce 3 and Intel's Pentium 4 CPU.

About Metro3D
Metro3D is the ultimate multi-platform game developer and publisher of original and "classic" action, strategy and role-playing interactive entertainment software. Founded in 1998, Metro3D introduces some of the industry's most critically acclaimed and popular game titles for the next-generation video game systems, including Microsoft® Xbox™, Nintendo® Game Boy® Advance, and Sony PlayStation® 2. Based in San Jose, California, Metro3D is a privately held company with worldwide operations in the United States, Taiwan, Japan and Europe. For more information, visit the Metro3D site at www.Metro3D.com.
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by Damien