SANTA MONICA, Calif.,
Nov. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --
Get ready to experience blindingly fast arcade speed and
over-the-top racing action as Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly
owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI),
expands on the success of the NASCAR videogame franchise with
NASCAR® Unleashed. Now available for the Xbox 360®
video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3
computer entertainment system, the Wii™ from Nintendo and Nintendo
3DS™, NASCAR Unleashed has players breaking out
of the oval tracks and onto the uneven pavement of city streets,
idyllic countryside roads, pristine beachfront highways and
more!
NASCAR Unleashed features 15 of NASCAR's biggest
names, including NASCAR Sprint Cup series drivers Kyle Busch, Dale
Earnhardt, Jr., Jeff Gordon,
and Joey Logano. Players will take
the wheel of growling, turbo-charged racing machines that will
unleash their stock car fury on defenseless city streets. Familiar
NASCAR tracks just waiting to be ripped apart include: Daytona
International Speedway®, Chicagoland Speedway®, Homestead-Miami
Speedway(SM), Martinsville Speedway® and Talladega Superspeedway®.
Lifelong NASCAR fans and those new to the sport will enjoy
careening around the tracks before rocketing away from the
grandstands to explore the wide open world, NASCAR style.
The gameplay features forgiving handling and virtually no rules,
with the key being bashing and smashing opponents out of the way to
earn the trophy. Drafting and power sliding around turns will be
the most useful tools in a player's arsenal; but with loose
mechanics they should be vigilant for cars flying overhead in
wicked Hollywood style crashes.
The wild "Rival" feature turns up the heat: players must compete
not only with the other racers but with a given "Rival" who is
gunning to knock them out of the lead and to the back of the pack.
Distinct game modes available for play include single player
championship, time trial challenges, quick races and action-packed
split screen multiplayer.
NASCAR Unleashed is now available on Xbox 360,
PlayStation®3 system, Wii and the Nintendo 3DS for $39.99 MSP. The game is rated E for Everyone
by the ESRB. NASCAR Unleashed will also be featured
in the Battle of the NASCAR Kids event taking place the
weekend of November 18 at the Sprint
Cup Championship race in Homestead-Miami. For more information please visit
www.ActivisionUnleashed.com or join us on
facebook.com/NASCARUnleashed.
About NASCAR
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, Inc.
(NASCAR) is the sanctioning body for one of North America's premier sports. NASCAR
races are broadcast in more than 150 countries and in 20 languages.
In the U.S., races are broadcast on FOX, TNT, ABC/ESPN/ESPN2, SPEED
and SiriusXM Satellite Radio. NASCAR fans are among the most
brand-loyal in all of sports, and as a result more Fortune 100
companies participate in NASCAR than any other sport. NASCAR
consists of three national series (the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series,
NASCAR Nationwide Series, and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series),
four regional series, and one local grassroots series, as well as
two international series. Also part of NASCAR is Grand-Am Road
Racing, known for its competition on road courses with multiple
classes of cars. NASCAR sanctions more than 1,200 races at 100
tracks in more than 30 U.S. states, Canada and Mexico. Based in Daytona Beach, Fla., NASCAR has offices in
eight cities across North America.
The next NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, the AAA Texas 500 in
Fort Worth, Texas, will air Nov.,
6 on ESPN at 3:00 p.m. ET. For more
information and a complete schedule, visit www.nascar.com. Follow
NASCAR on www.facebook.com/NASCAR or on Twitter: @NASCAR.
About Activision Publishing, Inc.
Headquartered in Santa Monica,
California, Activision Publishing, Inc. is a leading
worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive
entertainment and leisure products.
Activision maintains operations in the U.S., Canada, the United
Kingdom, France,
Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Norway, Denmark, the
Netherlands, Australia,
South Korea, China and the region of Taiwan. More information about Activision and
its products can be found on the company's website,
www.activision.com.
©2011 Activision Publishing, Inc. Activision is a registered
trademark of Activision Publishing, Inc. "PlayStation" is a
registered trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. © 2010
Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Xbox, Xbox
360, Xbox LIVE and the Xbox logos are trademarks of the Microsoft
group of companies and are used under license from Microsoft. Wii
and Nintendo 3DS are trademarks of Nintendo. All other trademarks
and trade names are the properties of their respective owners. All
rights reserved.
For Information, Contact:
Activision Publishing:
Rob Fleischer
rob@sandboxstrat.com
Tel: 212-213-2451 x 222
NASCAR:
Nick Kelly
nkelly@nascar.com
Tel: 704-348-9613
SOURCE Activision Publishing, Inc.