LIGHTS, CAMERA, INTER-ACTION: CAPCOM RELEASES "FOX HUNT" FOR PC CD-ROM
COMPUTERS

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- January 31, 1996 -- In its latest collaborative
project with Hollywood, Capcom Entertainment, Inc. today released Fox
Hunt, an interactive comedy spy thriller that looks like a feature film
and draws the player directly into the middle of every action. Now
available for PC CD-ROM computers, Fox Hunt is scheduled to release in
February for Macintosh CD-ROM and in March for the Sony PlayStation and
Sega Saturn. The computer formats will sell at a suggested retail price of
$54.99 and the 32-bit systems at $59.99. 

Fox Hunt is a spy thriller with action, adventure, . . . and dueling
Elvises. Featuring more than 3 hours and 20 minutes of full-motion video,
Fox Hunt was filmed during a 33-day shoot in Los Angeles and Aspen,
Colorado. Shot entirely on 16mm film, the game delivers a deep, rich
picture quality that can't be achieved with videotape. Altogether, the
film production involved more than 40 sets and 2100 camera set-ups to
depict some 735 scenes (the average movie includes about 160 scenes). 

In Fox Hunt, the player enters the world of Jack Fremont, an ordinary guy
thrust into an extraordinary situation. Jack's mission: find the missing
launch codes, avoid being killed by Frank, discover the Fox's true
identity, snatch a briefcase full of cash and diamonds, and if there's
time, get the girl. When an attempt at blackmail by a former KGB colonel
nicknamed "The Fox" goes awry, Jack is the free world's only hope to stop
a missile aimed for Los Angeles. Recruited by the CIA because of his
incredible knowledge of bad Seventies TV, Jack crosses the paths of the
Russian mob, a psychotic former CIA agent, and a virtual army of people
out to stop him. And he only has 24 hours to do it. It's James Bond in a
rented tux, and a bad guy in mittens. 

With a rich, flowing plot structured along the lines of a motion picture,
Fox Hunt features 28 lead players and hundreds of extras: George Lazenby,
known to film buffs as one of the actors who has played agent 007 in the
James Bond movies, appears as Jack's ally, the veteran spy-meister
Chauncey; Oscar-nominated Timothy Bottoms ("The Last Picture Show") turns
in an incredible performance as the whacked-out assassin Frank; newcomer
Andrew Bowen is the dashing slacker Jack Fremont. And, in a special guest
appearance, Rob Lowe plays Edison Pettibone, the "King of the
Infomercial." 

First ever published video game CD soundtrack

Rhino Records, the world's leading pop music archivist, has released the
first ever dedicated soundtrack album for a video game. Containing 12
tracks, Fox Hunt (the CD soundtrack) released on January 23, 1996, with a
suggested retail list price of $15.98. Included are songs by such modern
rock bands as Violent Femmes, Butthole Surfers, Faith No More, Sublime,
and Poster Children. Rhino has also licensed tracks by Dick Dale & His
Del-Tones, Sugarhill Gang, and Average White Band. Although it doesn't
appear on the Rhino soundtrack, the background score for the video game
was penned by Devo member Mark Mothersbaugh. 

"It's no surprise that Fox Hunt has created tremendous excitement in both
Hollywood and Silicon Valley," says Rich Moore, vice-president of Capcom
Digital Studios. "The making of Fox Hunt represents one of the most high
profile projects of its kind -combining top talent from a variety of
critical areas: technical genius, film writing/directing/producing
expertise, software development and game publishing clout. 

To create Fox Hunt, Capcom tapped the TV/film producer-writer-director team
of 3Vision and renowned software designer Peter Marx of Evolutionary
Publishing, Inc., whose breakthrough projects continue to shape the future
of digital media. 3Vision, Inc., was founded by Adam Berns, Michael Berns,
and Matt Pyken. Coming into the interactive business with film industry
backgrounds, the trio produced its first interactive project last year,
National Lampoon's Blind Date, published by TriMark. 

"The Fox Hunt project is revolutionary in the software market," says Adam
Berns, executive producer of Fox Hunt and president of 3Vision. "With most
interactive movie games, the use of full-motion video creates a passive
experience for the player, and is usually extraneous to the actual
gameplay. In Fox Hunt, our technology allows us to use film to create the
game, adding to its playablity and realism. Fox Hunt brings
state-of-the-art features and even a sense of humor to the gaming
forefront in a true movie quality manner." 

Fox Hunt is far from a passive experience. The player must travel multiple
paths, gather information and clues, make real-time decisions, and battle
the bad guys in some of the most realistic live-action fight sequences yet
created for interactive entertainment. The game features more than 20
different action sequences, from hand-to-hand combat, a ski-diving gun
battle, and skiing and snowboarding action, to a climactic high-speed
race-and-shoot through a maze of tunnel tubes, filmed using miniatures and
fiber-optic cameras. Fox Hunt also features 10 different outcomes,
depending exactly on the players routes, decisions and skill. 

Capcom Entertainment, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Capcom Co., Ltd.,
is a leading force in the multi-billion dollar interactive entertainment
industry. The company develops, markets and distributes computer
entertainment for personal computers and home video games for the Super
Nintendo, Sega Saturn, and Sony PlayStation. Capcom Entertainment is based
in Sunnyvale, Calif. 

CAPCOM ENTERTAINMENT, Inc.
475 Oakmead Parkway
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
(408) 774-0500
 
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