SIERRA STUDIOS LAUNCHES INCREDIBLE HOLIDAY LINEUP
SWAT 3, Half-Life: Opposing Force, and Gabriel Knight 3 Shipping This Week

November 17, 1999 (Bellevue, WA) - Sierra Studios today announced SWAT 3, Half-Life: Opposing Force, and Gabriel Knight 3 will be in stores by November 20th in stores across North America. The release of these games completes the launch of Studio's extraordinary holiday 1999 push, which began recently with the release of Pharaoh and Homeworld.

"This year's holiday lineup is perhaps the most impressive offering of games from Sierra in its 20 year history," said Jim Veevaert, vice president of marketing at Sierra Studios. "When we launched the division two years ago, it was our goal to put together a consistent lineup of titles that were at the top of their core genres-and that's exactly what we've accomplished in 1999."

The goal for Sierra Studios is to release quality games and a diversity of genres for today's gamers. The aim is to be considered first choice among gamers with increasing changes to technology and gaming preference.

SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle
SWAT 3: CQB is based on real life L.A.P.D. SWAT tactics with missions ripped from today's and tomorrow's headlines. Motion capture technology, cutting edge computer intelligence, a real-world physics engine, and the close cooperation of actual LAPD SWAT officers in development make SWAT 3 the most realistic tactical game ever released. Photographic resources for faces and clothing help to create real world characters out of 3D models. Dynamic lighting coupled with environments built to scale with photographic resources make the world in SWAT 3 extremely lifelike.

Half-Life: Opposing Force™
Half-Life: Opposing Force is the official game expansion for Half-Life, the thrilling PC CD-ROM named "Game of the Year" by over 50 publications. In Opposing Force (a.k.a. "Op For"), players return to the Black Mesa Research Facility to engage in an entirely new episode of single player action. In addition to the extensive new single player experience, Opposing Force also contains a robust collection of fresh multiplayer content. These include new weapons, player characters (models), and several new multiplayer maps designed by the experts at Gearbox Software as well as levels created by legends of the Dallas first-person shooter community.

Gabriel Knight 3®: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned™
Gabriel Knight III: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned, published by Sierra Studios, is the next installment in the famed Gabriel Knight mystery/adventure series. Gabriel Knight III, written and designed by Jane Jensen - one of the most renowned computer game designers today promises to provide an entirely unique 3D real-time adventure gaming experience. This compelling mystery tasks the player with solving a controversial real-life enigma, intertwining interactive puzzle solving with highly detailed 3D animated characters in a real-time 3D world.

About Sierra
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 WON.net™ 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.