Bellevue, WA (August 31, 2000) - Sierra Studios(tm) and Valve L.L.C. today
announced Half-Life: Counter-Strike, the largest multiplayer game offering
in one commercial product, combining all the elements of the Half-Life
online universe with new single- and multiplayer content. Half-Life:
Counter-Strike is a stand-alone PC game due to ship this fall with all of
Valve's multiplayer content, three of the top MODs for Half-Life, and the #1
played online action game*, Counter-Strike.
"Half-Life's online community is growing at a rate of over 500% per year
-Counter-Strike is a key part of our strategy to sustain that growth moving
forward," said Gabe Newell, managing director of Valve L.L.C. "In addition
to offering the number one online action game as a stand-alone product,
Half-Life: Counter-Strike delivers all our online games in one package to
gamers who have not tried any of these leading online action games."
In development by the Counter-Strike Team in conjunction with Valve,
Half-Life: Counter-Strike casts players as a member of either a terrorist or
counter-terrorist team. Each team has unique weapons and capabilities. The
game is played in a variety of scenarios with varying objectives, including
rescue missions, assassination, bomb diffusion, and more. More information
on Counter-Strike can be found through the official Web site at
http://www.counter-strike.net/.
In addition to Counter-Strike, the entire Half-Life online experience is
available within this package including, Half-Life multiplayer, Team
Fortress Classic, and Half-Life: Opposing Force multiplayer. And finally,
three new MODs, created by some of the top-level designers within the
Half-Life community, are also featured. More information on Half-Life and
its MODs can be found at www.gameoftheyear.com.
Founded in 1996, Valve develops entertainment software. Half-Life is Valve's
debut title. Since its release in November 1998, Half-Life has won over 50
Game of the Year Awards from publications that include PC Gamer, Computer
Gaming World, and CNET's Gamecenter and has sold over 2 million units
worldwide on the PC. More information about Valve is available through the
company's Web site at www.valvesoftware.com.
Sierra On-Line, Inc. (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 Entertainment(r), Coktel, Knowledge Adventure(r), Sierra(tm) and
Flipside.com(tm) 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.
*According to the leader board on www.gamespy.com
