Impressions Games Invites Gamers to Experience the New Face of Power with Pharaoh Official Expansion: Cleopatra
Expansion to best-selling City Builder Due on Store Shelves July 14

CAMBRIDGE, MA (July 5, 2000) - Impressions Games™ and Sierra Studios™ today announced that development of Pharaoh™ Official Expansion: Cleopatra™ has been completed and that the game is due to ship to stores in the U.S. on July 14th. In addition, the companies announced that Pharaoh, which shipped in November 1999, has sold over 500,000 copies worldwide, making it the most successful single game release in the Impressions City Building Series™. The series, which encompasses Rome through the Caesar™ line of games, Egypt through Pharaoh and the Cleopatra expansion, and soon Greece with the recently-announced Zeus, has sold over two million copies worldwide and received massive critical acclaim.

The Cleopatra expansion includes four new campaigns for their award-winning, strategic city-building game Pharaoh, and allows gamers to experience the final years of ancient Egyptian history through 15 totally new scenarios. It is being developed for Impressions Games by Maryland-based Breakaway Games, who most recently developed Sid Meier's Antietam!

"Cleopatra starts with everything fans of Pharaoh loved about the game and then adds new buildings, scenarios, enemies, challenges, and features," said Alex X. Rodberg, brand manager at Impressions Games. "Cleopatra is a great addition to an incredible lineup of City Building Series games by Impressions."

Pharaoh Official Expansion: Cleopatra picks up at the end of the New Kingdom, where Pharaoh left off. Players will be able to play four campaigns with 15 new missions, with challenges varying from building the Lighthouse at Alexandria, to battling grave robbers, to joining Mark Antony in his battle against Octavian. New buildings, industries, animals, enemies, decorations and monuments expand the breadth of Pharaoh while maintaining the challenge and addictiveness that made the original so successful. Also included is a scenario editor that lets players create their own cities and challenges.

Impressions Games, creator of some of the most innovative, best-selling strategy titles, including the Lords of the Realm®, Lords of Magic®, Civil War Generals and the City Building series, is a leading developer of PC games headquartered in Cambridge, MA. More information can be found at http://www.impressionsgames.com and http://www.sierrastudios.com.

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