GMX announce HELLFORCES

Descending upon the UK early next year via GMX.

September 9, 2004

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[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Game Developer and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press]

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LONDON, UK (9 September 2004) - GMX Media are announcing that they will be publishing the new action packed FPS title HELLFORCES for 2005, licensed by Buka Entertainment.

"HELLFORCES is a no-nonsense FPS title that will offer new levels of wanton destruction and challenging gameplay that's designed with entertainment in mind." commented COO for GMX Media Eugene Perry. "This title is already looking stunning and certain that its uncompromising gameplay and storyline will be a key factor for its success in 2005."

"Hellforces is a technologically sophisticated shooter with a thrilling storyline and attractive graphical representation, which features intensive action and a good deal of humor." added PR and Marketing manager for Buka Julia Gribonosova. "The player will have to summon up all his deductive and reaction skills revealing the Satanic plot against humanity. And what would you do if your girl-friend sold her soul to a stranger?"

The story so far...

Experimenting with alternative power sources, the biophysicist Henry Alfred Cole has found a way to extract the soul from a human body and use the soul as a power source. The soulless bodies however turned into zombies. Hellish creatures started filling them to change dramatically the essence of the host body.

A daemon from a parallel world, Baphomet, installed himself in one soulless body and soon founded the cult of Lucifer. The aim of this cult was to open the gate for Lucifer to come into the humans' world. The number of followers of the cult increased at a catastrophic rate; Satanists all around the world were joining their ranks.

Our hero is concerned with the fate of his missing friend, who had had a meeting with the leader of a satanic sect just a day before his disappearance. His persistent investigations become a threat to the Satan worshippers and Satanists start hunting after him. The creepy truth about the fate of his friend will reveal itself in the mansion of the biophysicist...

Save the earth from the heresy and the minions of Lucifer!

Key Features:

24 weapons types and diverse special equipment, including a night vision device, binoculars, movement sensors and loads more!

Infinite crowds of monsters, gallons of gore, kilograms of ammo.

Perfect graphical realization with advanced DirectX 9 effects.

EAX technology allows advanced 3D sound effects of outstanding quality.

Multiplayer via LAN.

Release Date: Q1 2005

More information at: http://www.gmxmedia.net/hellforces

About BUKA Entertainment

Buka Entertainment is a European publisher headquartered in Moscow, Russia.

Since its foundation in 1994 and up to the present Buka has released more than 100 games both home-grown and localized, including made in Russia Fair Strike, Battle Mages and The Entente: World War I Battlefields.

Russian games produced by Buka became the internationally anticipated and recognized brands. Buka's games came to 70 countries of the globe, such as the US, the UK, Japan, Germany, France, and Eastern Europe.

We signed our titles with more than 56 Publishers scattered around the world. Among them, we have names like Encore, Capcom, Acclaim, Cenega, Data Becker, JoWooD, Ubi Soft, and a number of smaller, but reliable and good partners as well, leaders in their respective territories.

The recent years were flagged with the steadfast expansion of Buka's direct sales operations spanning the Russian Federation and CIS countries through to Mainland China, where Buka has established a subsidiary company in September 2004.

About GMX Media

GMX Media is on track to become one of the world's leading publishers and distributors of video games for all consoles (Microsoft^®, Nintendo^®, Sega^® and Sony^®), personal computers (PCs), and Macintosh hardware, as well as all available interactive platforms. Headquartered in the UK with operations or partners in every major territory in the world.

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8th Wonder of The World: http://www.gmxmedia.net/8thwonder

Airborne Troops: http://www.gmxmedia.net/airbornetroops/

Alpha Black Zero; Intrepid Protocol: http://www.gmxmedia.net/alphablackzero/

Battle Mages: http://www.gmxmedia.net/bm

Cold War Conflicts: http://www.gmxmedia.net/cwc

Combat Over Europe: http://www.gmxmedia.net/coe

Conspiracies: http://www.gmxmedia.net/conspiracies/

Crown of the North: http://www.gmxmedia.net/cotn

Cycling Manager 3: http://www.gmxmedia.net/cm3

D-Day 1944: http://www.gmxmedia.net/dday/

Deep Sea Tycoon: http://www.gmxmedia.net/deepsea