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Paul Burkey and Epic Marketing announce Cooperation |
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Heres the full press release
Paul Burkey and Epic Marketing proudly announce a long term cooperation. The goal of this new cooperation is to bring great strategy games to the Amiga community. The first fruits of this cooperation will bring "Foundations Directors Cut" to the community. This is Foundation brought up-to-date with all available and one forthcoming update. It will be priced at £ 14.99 (DM 49.- or 25 Euro) and is mainly aimed at those Amiga users that never bought the original game. "Foundation Directors Cut" will be released in about 2 weeks time and will be available direct from Epic Marketing Germany (Tel: +49/(0)7071 400492, E-Mail: info@epic-marketing.de) or Epic Marketing UK (Tel: +44/(0)1793 432176 E-Mail:islona@dialin.net). Preorders are welcome and can already be placed with Epic.
Foundation is a real-time strategy war game which incorporates familiar strategy elements with interesting new concepts. Accomplished strategy game players will enjoy the enhanced control and complex resource management. Beginners will enjoy the accessibility of the gameplay when played in it's basic form and the depth of skill that is attainable with experience.
The added features of "Foundation Directors Cut" will be:
* optimized GFX card support
* Fully supports CyberGraphX, Picasso96 and AHI
* new rendering system with Gourad Shading
* new graphics effects includes Texture Blending and Lighting/Shading
* GFX card users can now run the game in a Workbench Window
* AGA supported with fast c2p so AGA looks identical to RTG mode
* Uses more Fast Ram for graphics to avoid chip memory problems
* Installation to HD is much more compact
* optimised gameplay
* Improved Computer AI for the added challenge
* More in-game statistics and control panels
* faster gameplay, faster loading
* Support for custom speech
* much much more
But things will not stop with "Foundation Directors Cut". The Sequel to "Foundation" will be "Foundation's Edge" and will be released around the Christmas period. This will be a brand new product which will take the idea of "Foundation" to the 21st century. The game will be completely rewritten in C++ and a lot of new features will be introduced. Watch our webpages for the release of a feature list for "Foundation's Edge". (www.epic-marketing.de or www.sneech.freeserve.co.uk/foundedge.html)
Paul Burkey and Epic Marketing are also looking to support the Amiga NG machines with future games.
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