Rockstar Games, the world-renowned publishing division of Take-Two Interactive
Software, Inc., has announced that Max Payne 2:The Fall of Max Payne
for PC has officially gone gold and is currently in manufacturing. Developed by
Remedy Entertainment, the sequel to the original film-noir action thriller, Max
Payne, will be in stores in North America on October 15, 2003 and in Europe on
October 24, 2003.

“With Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Remedy has done an incredible
job in raising the bar for technical innovation and creating a truly superb
cinematic experience,” said Sam Houser, President of Rockstar Games. “With
two and a half years invested in this project, the results exceeded even our
high expectations. Everyone at Rockstar is eagerly anticipating the reaction
of gamers around the world when it hits the streets.”

“Working with the vast array of talent and resources that Rockstar Games
brings to the table, we’ve been able to push the production values to an incredibly
high level in Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne,” said Petri Jarvilehto,
lead game designer at Remedy Entertainment. “We are confident we’ve created
a strong successor to the first game that pushes the envelope on cinematic action
and intense storytelling.”

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne surpasses the high standards set by 2001’s
award-winning Max Payne, which revolutionized the action genre with cinematic
combat sequences fueled by groundbreaking use of slow motion and dramatic narrative-driven
gameplay, becoming one of the best-selling PC games of the year. Console gamers
were equally thrilled by the original Max Payne as it later went on to achieve
“Greatest Hits” status on the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment
system and “Platinum Hits” recognition on the Xbox® video game system
from Microsoft. The original Max Payne has sold over 4 million units to date
worldwide.

Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne will be in stores on the PlayStation
2 and Xbox on December 3, 2003.

About Take-Two Interactive Software
Headquartered in New York City, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is an integrated
global developer, marketer, distributor, and publisher of interactive entertainment
software games and accessories for the PC, PlayStation® game console, PlayStation®2
computer entertainment system, Xbox, Nintendo GameCubeâ„¢ and Nintendo Game
Boy Advance. The Company publishes and develops products through its wholly
owned subsidiary labels: Rockstar Games, Gotham Games, Gathering, Joytech and
Global Star. The Company maintains sales and marketing offices in Cincinnati,
New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Munich, Vienna, Copenhagen, Milan, Sydney,
Amsterdam and Auckland. Take-Two’s common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ
under the symbol TTWO. For more corporate and product information please visit
our website at www.take2games.com.

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