Sierra Studios™ to take Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) by storm with diverse line-up

Bellevue, WA (May 9, 2000) - Sierra Studios™, a member of the Sierra On-Line family, today announced a varied and exciting lineup of titles to be showcased at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles in the South Hall booth #1146 from May 11th-13th. Continuing the momentum established by the unprecedented success and acclaim of its flagship title Half-Life, and after amassing over 50 Game of the Year awards, Sierra Studios will present a slate of seven groundbreaking titles on the show floor.

The lineup includes Ground Control™, Homeworld: Cataclysm™, TRIBES 2™, Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura™, NASCAR^® Racing 4, Zeus™: Master of Olympus™, and Empire Earth™.

"Our 2000 E3 line-up, more than ever before, reflects how we are continuing to raise the bar for cutting-edge action, simulation, role-playing and strategy games," commented Jim Veevaert, vice-president of marketing for Sierra Studios.

SIERRA STUDIOS E3 TITLE LINEUP:

GROUND CONTROL
Ground Control combines classic strategy elements with incredible 3-D technology previously reserved for action games. It focuses its gameplay on tactics, strategy, and the art of battle. The end result is greater realism, faster-paced action, and an unparalleled player experience. Played out through a variety of missions, players must take control of their customizable squads of soldiers, tanks, hovercraft, aircraft, and other units, as they fight for control of a distant world. In addition to the frenetic single-player experience, Ground Control will offer both classic and innovative multiplayer options for PC gamers everywhere.

HOMEWORLD: CATACLYSM
Homeworld: Cataclysm, created by Canadian-based Barking Dog Studios, in conjunction with Relic Entertainment, is the next episode in the critically-acclaimed Homeworld saga. This new stand-alone 3D real-time strategy game extends Homeworld's revolutionary gameplay with entirely new fleets of ships and includes new research capabilities, fog-of-war functions, interface enhancements, mothership modules, damage control, way points, and much more. Homeworld: Cataclysm continues the saga from the original Homeworld and introduces a new threat from a techno-organic entity known as "The Beast." In addition to the 17 new single player missions, Homeworld: Cataclysm will feature an improved multiplayer mode that allows for multiplayer games of up to eight players via Flipside.com.

TRIBES 2
Tribes 2 is the eagerly awaited sequel to the 1999 Online Action/Strategy Game of the Year: Starsiege Tribes. The game is the ultimate in team-based action and offers massive, breathtaking worlds for exploration and battle, as well as unprecedented innovations in team-based, tactical gameplay. Tribes 2 offers an environment where brainpower and teamwork are the only true keys to survival and victory. This experience is not limited to the online players alone. Tribes 2 also adds a new single-player component that allows players to fill their teams with computer-controlled teammates before heading into the epic battles for which the Tribes franchise is known.

ARCANUM: OF STEAMWORKS AND MAGICK OBSCURA
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura is a new role-playing game from Troika Games, founded by key members from the development team behind the award-winning role-playing game, Fallout^®*. Named for the world it is set in, Arcanum opens in an age where magic and technology coexist in uneasy balance. An industrial revolution has swept across the fantasy realm of Arcanum, and players must choose their path - magic or technology - in their quest across the land.

NASCAR^® RACING 4
NASCAR^® Racing 4 is Papyrus' next evolution of the award-winning racing series. NASCAR^® Racing 4 showcases a revolutionary new 3-D physics model, designed by Papyrus founder, Dave Kaemmer, that adds even more realism to the cars - with body rolls, the ability to become airborne, and tires that spin and lock up. The new hardware-only 32-bit graphics engine allows for real-time reflection maps and shadows, higher frame rate, and smooth slow-motion replay. The multiplayer capabilities have been improved as well, to allow for remote server set-up and connection-quality monitoring. NASCAR^® Racing 4 will also include a pop-up help menu for car setup features and a novice mode to make the game appealing to all audiences. In addition, up to 32 drivers to race online with robust LAN and Internet support.

ZEUS: MASTER OF OLYMPUS
From Impressions Games, the development team that brought the world Pharaoh and the Caesar™ series, comes Zeus: Master of Olympus, the sixth game in their award-winning City Building Series. Zeus, set in a mythological ancient Greece, serves up a world filled with the likes of Hercules, Athena, Ares, Medusa, the Minotaur, and many others. Players build and rule Greek city-states while summoning heroes and gods to protect their land from monsters and other Greek cities. Easy to learn, and quick to get in and out of, Zeus promises to be the most fun city building game yet.

EMPIRE EARTH
Empire Earth is the debut title from Stainless Steel Studios, but not the first for company founder Rick Goodman, who was lead designer for the best-selling and critically acclaimed strategy game Age of Empires. In Empire Earth, gamers attempt to dominate the Earth in land, sea, and air battles, while advancing their civilizations through over 500,000 years of "history," from the Paleolithic age to the 24th century. In the game, players construct countless war machines, including siege towers, trebuchets, nuclear submarines, stealth bombers, and intelligent mechanized robots, research more than 150 different technological advances, and wage war against the computer or their friends via the Internet. Empire Earth lets gamers carry out a night attack with a column of Patton's tanks, command French Grenadiers in the Napoleonic Wars, send Alexander the Great and an army of phalanxes to raze a troublesome city-state, and much, much more.

Sierra On-Line, Inc. http://www.sierra.com/ is one of the original developers and largest worldwide publishers of interactive entertainment and productivity software. Sierra is a division of Havas Interactive, a global leader in interactive content, and is one of the world's largest publishers of education, entertainment and home productivity software. Its divisions, Blizzard^®, Coktel, Knowledge Adventure^®, Sierra and Flipside.com™ are famous for releasing critically acclaimed and award winning titles. Havas has operations in the US and in Europe and is a subsidiary of the French publishing house Havas, part of Vivendi Communications.

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