Midway’s RoadKill Features Unique, Wide-Ranging Radio System

Midway Games Inc.,
a leading software industry publisher and developer, announced today that a wide-ranging
radio system will be implemented in RoadKillâ„¢, a mission-based,
post-apocalyptic combat driving game, which is scheduled to ship in October 2003
for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, the Xbox® video game
system from Microsoft and Nintendo GameCubeâ„¢.

Six radio stations, ranging from rock to car talk, will feature licensed music
as well as original programming created specifically for RoadKill. Players will
be able to tune the dial from the Judas Priest classic “Heading Out
to the Highway” to love chat, then onto a political talk station before
settling in for a song such as Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear the Reaper”
or Rick Springfield’s “Jessie’s Girl.” Other licensed songs
in the game come from a wide range of artists such as April Wine and Leo Sayer,
among others. Also featured is a local bands station, which offers songs created
specifically for RoadKill, and “dynamic radio,” which is a police
channel station that gives specific game updates. Commercials that run on the
radio system advertise for businesses that are featured in the game’s post-apocalyptic
streets. . .

“Our unique radio system is a major part of RoadKill,” said Helene
Sheeler, vice president of marketing, Midway. “The eclectic grouping of
campy music and commentary informs and enhances the gameplay.”

Set in a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by a plague and ruled by gangs, RoadKill
allows players to unleash havoc in 40 vehicles with weapons such as machine
guns, guided missiles and homing rockets. Assuming the role of the mercenary,
players must build a gang following as they battle rival gangs, city guards
and anyone else that gets in the way.

RoadKill drops players into instantaneous battle with 30 core story-driven
missions with cinematic cut-scenes and numerous side missions and mini-games.
The missions place the player into the three cities of Hell County — Lava Falls,
Blister Canyon and Paradise City. The game’s dynamic reputation system determines
how the world reacts to the way players perform missions, kill and maim citizens,
destroy enemy vehicles and build alliances with the gangs of Hell County. Players
in RoadKill collect salvaged parts — which upgrade the 40 vehicles with items
such as nitrous thrust and armor plating — to unlock secret features and help
explore the world in a search for hidden blueprints.

RoadKill Key Features:

• Car Combat — Select from 40 unique, post-apocalyptic-style vehicles to
  experience the ultimate ride in vehicular combat.
• Potent Firepower — More than 15 powerful armaments to unleash upon your
  enemies.
• Drive to Survive — Destroy your opponents throughout three enormous living
  and destructible cities.
• Detailed Missions — Engage in more than 30 core story-driven missions
  and numerous side missions and mini-games as you roam the streets and instigate
  anarchy.
• Interactive Chaos — Run over, impale, shoot and splatter both innocent
  and armed pedestrians in multiple ways, inciting riots.
• Dynamic Reputation System — Gain the necessary reputation to work your
  way up from a rookie to an executioner and develop a gang following that will
  provide additional protection to your home turf.
• Multiplayer — Engage in the ultimate test of vehicular combat: 2-4 player
  multiplayer Death Match Mode.
• Post-Apocalyptic Earth — Face-off against seven rival gangs, killing the
  members of some while gaining the respect of others.
• Unlock Features — Collect salvaged parts from destroyed vehicles to purchase
  items such as nitrous thrust, speed boost and armor plating.
• Search and Recover — Participate in scavenger hunts and find the blueprints
  necessary to build the ultimate weapons and vehicles.
• Rock ‘n’ Roll — Dynamic radio system forewarns of weather events, gives
  mission updates and allows users to tune into a variety of hits, from rock
  to easy listening.

Midway Games Inc. is a leading developer, publisher and marketer of interactive
entertainment software. Midway videogames are available for play on all major
videogame platforms including the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system,
Xbox, Nintendo GameCube™ and Game Boy® Advance.

For more information about Midway Games visit www.midway.com.

ROADKILL is a trademark of Midway Home Entertainment Inc. MIDWAY is a registered
trademark of Midway Amusement Games, LLC. “PlayStation” and the “PS”
Family logo are registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Xbox
is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or
other countries. Nintendo GameCube is a trademark of Nintendo. © 2001 Nintendo.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies.

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