-- Feverish Action Is Highly Contagious --
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (May 11, 1995) -- Sony Imagesoft proudly announces the upcoming release of the first computer bug you'll want to buy, Virus. The PC game version of Virus will debut today at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) hel d in Los Angeles.
Based on the coin-op version of the game -- which will be released by Betson Entertainment Technologies later this year -- Virus is a first-person arcade-style shooter game that takes place on a hi-tech and heavily armed battleship.
"We're excited to bring Virus to the PC and PlayStation soon after its arcade release," said Kelly Flock, president, Sony Imagesoft. "As Virus is originally an arcade game, we're striving to have tons of fast-paced action with some bizar re creatures lurking around every corner; it will definitely be a kill or be killed game."
The story line of Virus takes place after the ship's telecommunication system picks up an alien virus which infects not just the crew and the electronics, but the entire vessel. The virus physically fuses and combines everything it infects into flesh an d metal monsters. Apache helicopters grow spidery legs; crewmen meld with their instruments of death; giant wasps grow machine guns; and, the entire ship is turned into a massive living, thinking war-zone with the player trapped inside.
In Virus, the player will have to fight his way through six sections of the ship, confronting a wide variety of grotesque mutants along the way. For added action, Virus will also have a two-player cooperative mode.
The PC version of Virus will ship on two CD-ROMs for IBM-compatible computers and is slated for a Christmas release. A Sony PlayStation version is scheduled to be released in the first quarter of 1996.
Sony Imagesoft, a division of Sony Electronic Publishing Company creates, produces, distributes and markets interactive video game and computer-based multimedia entertainment software. Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, the company has operation s throughout the United States. Sony Electronic Publishing, together with Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment, is a subsidiary of Sony Software Corporation, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.
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