Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee

Atari
is bringing Godzilla®: Destroy All Monsters Melee, a one-to-four
player monster-on-monster fighting game, to the Xbox video game system from
Microsoft in Spring 2003. Based on the classic movie characters created by Toho
Co., Ltd. , the game recreates the look and feel of the titanic film legends
and challenges players to punch, kick, stomp, throw and blast each other in
massive, city-wide arenas. Godzilla®: Destroy All Monsters Melee, developed
by Pipeworks Software, is currently available on the Nintendo GameCube.

Godzilla®: Destroy All Monsters Melee pits gamers as their favorite giant
monster against other escapees from Monster Island. The game was awarded “Runner-up”
as the Best Fighting Game of the 2002 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angelos.
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In addition to the single-player Adventure Mode, the game
includes four additional play styles: Versus Mode, a one on
one epic battle royal; Destruction Mode, a timed challenge
to see which player can destroy more of a city in a given amount of time; Survival
Mode, the ultimate test of a player’s skill, pitting him against monster
after monster with the score based on the number of enemies defeated before
losing a match; and Melee Mode; a one-to-four player points-based multiplayer
slugfest.

The
game features an epic sense of scope and scale, with 10 massive real-world and
fantasy fighting arenas, including San Francisco, Tokyo and
the notorious Monster Island, that are fully 3D and totally interactive.
Players can pick up and throw buildings and landmarks like Big Ben, toss enemies
into vast fuel tank farms and stomp on baseball stadiums. Godzilla®: Destroy
All Monsters Melee also features additional hidden, unlockable areas only found
on the Xbox. Each city has been created with amazing attention to detail, including
working traffic lights, blinking neon signs and moving cars, buses and tanker
trucks.

More
than 10 licensed monsters, each carefully modeled from the record-setting movie
franchise, appear in the game including Godzilla® 90’s,
Mechagodzilla, Megalon, Destoroyah,
King Ghidorah, Mothra and many more. Each
character is equipped with basic fighting maneuvers like kicks, punches, jumps,
projectile attacks and blocks. For more hardcore fighting fans, Godzilla®:
Destroy All Monsters Melee includes a robust combo system and special attacks
that are unique to each creature’s abilities from the original movies. Power-ups
are dropped into the arena by alien ships and hidden within city buildings,
providing health and other enhanced abilities.

   
   
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New features for Xbox include:

• New monster: MechagodzillaTM3 (from the latest Godzilla®
  film release in Japan) joins the cast.
• New arenas: Vortaak Home World. The alien’s home world,
  features new challenges like volcanoes, spaceship launchers, installation-protection
  missiles, and plenty of alien buildings to throw. Boxing Ring, the largest
  boxing ring in the world constructed for monster battles complete with ropes,
  bells and blimps.
• New Computer AI: One gamer can now play a four-player melee
  or team game against the Xbox Artificial Intelligence.
• Single-player Destruction Mode: Players can rip up a city-all
  by themselves.
• Soundtrack support: Rip tunes to the Xbox hard drive and
  play your own tracks while you’re fighting as your favorite giant monsters.
• Xbox Advantage Controls: The extra buttons on the Xbox
  make it easier to grab monsters and buildings. In addition, the Xbox features
  improved responsiveness, combos and collision detection.
• Better visuals: The unmatched graphical prowess of the
  Xbox hardware allows for better visuals treats, like reflection maps on buildings,
  true bump mapping, improved animations, smokestacks that emit smoke, better
  impact effects, specular highlights, bright high-resolution skies, improved
  lighting model, improved terrain, high resolution city selection movies and
  high resolution textures.
• Improved Speed: Solid frame-rate and faster loading times.
• Multiple Saved Games: Up to four players can save their
  progress on the Xbox hard drive.

For more information on Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee, please visit
the official Web site at www.godzillagame.com.

About Infogrames
Infogrames is a major international producer, publisher and distributor of video
games for consoles (Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony), PC CD-ROMs, and Macintosh
hardware, under the Infogrames and Atari brands..
Infogrames is a global publisher of videogames for the whole family, with a
catalog that includes popular franchises (Driver, Alone in the Dark, V-Rally,
Unreal Tournament, Test Drive, Roller Coaster Tycoon) and many international
licenses (Paramount’s Mission : Impossible, Men in Black, Superman, Matrix,
Terminator and Dragon Ball Z…).

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