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DAS Entertainment News Release For Immediate Release
“ERIC YOUNG'S SQUAD ASSAULT” COMING SOON TO NORTH AMERICA CHAPEL HILL, NC – February 10, 2005 – Merscom LLC and Got Game today announced plans to co-publish “Eric Young's Squad Assault” for PC in North America. Retailing for $29.99 (USD), the World War II real-time strategy game will feature all previously released patches for “Squad Assault: West Front” plus 800 MB of new content. In Eric Young's Squad Assault, you command troops in both the Allied and German Armies of the West Front of World War II in an immersive, fully 3D continuous time environment. Detailed models for all the major armies that fought in France in 1944 are available, including American, German, British, Canadian, and Free French. For those who prefer traditional turn-oriented play, a user-defined auto-pause feature for order entry and battlefield assessment allows for a more thoughtful game. A 2D overhead map view with order entry is also available for those who prefer to see the battle from above. Once the battle starts, the virtual soldiers you command respond with real reactions to the combat situations around them. This psychological modeling combines with unsurpassed detail in terrain, weather, weapons, vehicles and armor penetration to make Squad Assault: West Front™ a riveting recreation of World War II tactical combat. Multiplayer options for head-to-head play via TCP/IP and LAN are included. Key features: · Continuous time / Timed play World War II 3D strategy game · Pauseable (user-defined or auto-paused) · Company level tactical setting with emphasis on small unit tactics · Detailed combat system · Detailed armor models · Play as Allies or Germans (allies include US, British, Canadian and French troops) · Detailed psychological models · Complete, fully deformable 3D world · Detailed terrain model based on topographic maps of the real terrain · Full 2D maps available at a keystroke to make battle overview simple and easy to view · Multiplayer action for head-to-head play · Multiplayer client Included · Historical and hypothetical scenarios · Operations and dynamic campaigns allow extensive replayability (ships with 3 full campaigns) · Scenario Editor · Ships with easy to use mod installer (swap mods with a mouse click!); sample mods are included Over 800 MB of new content in this version includes: · World editor to create new maps · Over 50 new modder made maps. · 5 new operations, · 50 scenarios, · 2 new campaigns
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DAS Entertainment Supports Squad Assault FAIRFAX, VA – October 1st, 2004 DAS Entertainment (http://www.d-a-s.com/entertainment) is pleased to announce will continue to support Eric Young’s Squad Assault from its own website (http://www.squadassault.com). DAS Entertainment will continue to support and develop the Squad Assault series, which started with Eric Young’s Squad Assault: West Front, released in 2003 to retail stores. David Slayton, President of DAS Entertainment, said “Dynamic Animation Systems and DAS Entertainment are excited to be supporting and continuing the development of the Freedom Games brand and the Squad Assault franchise.” Eric Young, Executive Producer for the Squad Assault franchise, said "With the combined talents of Freedom Games and Dynamic Animation Systems we are combining the graphic abilities of the Apex Graphics Engine with the combat model of Squad Assault to please every gamer's eyes, ears, and cerebellum." DAS Entertainment is bringing its in-house technology, the Apex Graphics Engine and the Force Game Engine, to the Squad Assault series in the next major release, tentatively titled Squad Assault 2: Market Garden. DAS Entertainment is also developing a series of near-future war games based on the US Army’s Objective Force concepts titled Squad Tactics. ABOUT DYNAMIC ANIMATION SYSTEMS Dynamic Animations Systems, Inc. (DAS) is dedicated to the development of distributed, interactive, and immersive virtual reality applications for training, education, entertainment, and government systems. Founded in 1995 by experts from the Defense Simulation and Visualization community, DAS was formed to develop the technology infrastructure and harness the creative talent to become the leading provider of interactive experiences for the cyberspace of tomorrow. DAS currently specializes in the development of real-time distributed gaming and visualization environments for analysis and training applications supporting both government and commercial customers. http://www.d-a-s.com ABOUT DAS ENTERTAINMENT Dynamic Animation Systems' Entertainment Group (DAS Entertainment) is dedicated to bringing DAS Technology to the retail entertainment domain. We are currently developing Xbox and PC games loosely based on the U.S. Army's Objective Force concepts. By combining the high performance DAS Apex graphics engine technology, the DAS Force game engine, the power of the current generation of PC hardware and the real-world game play of Objective Force with other game concepts, DAS Entertainment will become a recognized player in the videogame industry. For more information, visit our website at http://www.d-a-s.com/entertainment.
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