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Atari to Showcase Three Top Titles at Gen Con Indy 2005

Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, Dragonshard, The Matrix: Path of Neo

By George Buzdugan, Video and PC Games Editor

16th of August 2005, 09:02 GMT

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Atari announced today that it will showcase three of its most eagerly anticipated video games at Gen Con Indy 2005, taking place August 18-21, 2005, at the Indianapolis Convention Center in Indianapolis, IN. Titles scheduled to be on display include Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, Dragonshard, and The Matrix: Path of Neo.
On display and ready for play in the Atari Booth #313 will be:

- Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach (Windows), which the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) based on the world-renowned Dungeons & Dragons franchise from Wizards
of the Coast. Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach features innovative skill-based real-time combat, highly customizable characters, a unique adventure-based character advancement system, dungeons that feature challenges such as puzzles and traps, and authentic D&D characters and monsters from the magical Eberron campaign setting.

- Dragonshard (Windows), which is a real-time strategy game based on the exciting new Dungeons & Dragons Eberron setting, Dragonshard incorporates classic role-playing themes with a powerful and dynamic real-time strategy engine, all woven together via a rich storyline involving a global conflict for an immensely powerful artifact that has the power to change the fate of Eberron itself. Developed by Liquid Entertainment, Dragonshard allows players to seamlessly participate in two distinct styles of gameplay via Dual Layer Play, and includes an RPG advancement system based on the popular D&D rule set.

- The Matrix: Path of Neo (PlayStation2 computer entertainment system, the Xbox video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Windows), the result of the second collaboration between Atari and its Shiny Entertainment Studio, and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, as well as the Wachowski Brothers and Producer Joel Silver, creators of The Matrix trilogy. Set in the Matrix film universe, The Matrix: Path of Neo will enable players to play as "Neo" and relive the most important and memorable scenarios from the complete film trilogy. Throughout the game, a player's chosen path to resolve each scenario and the resulting consequences will be scripted and directed by the Wachowski Brothers. The game features several sequences of film-quality, live-action, full-motion video (FMV), as well as Hollywood-quality effects.


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