GT INTERACTIVE PRESS RELEASE
6.8.98
 
Powerslide

Format: PC 
SRP: £TBA
Release: 13th November 

THE smoothest driving experience... ever!

Powerslide - the fastest and most sophisticated off-road driving game ever seen on the PC. Richer graphics, faster graphics and better handling and dynamics than any other racing game available on the market.

Incredible state-of-the-art engine boasting a constant 60 frames per second. Realistic physics modeling with meticulous handling over subtle corners, huge jumps, banked turns, canyons, twisting tunnels, sand dunes and broken ground.

Slide around on surfaces such as mud, sand dirt, gravel, ice and sludge for the ultimate in off-road racing.  

Powerslide will offer an array of exciting features including:

•	The Difference Engine – Emergent Software’s proprietary technology that allows players to experience 300,000 polygons per second at an always constant 60 frames of animation per second.
•	Powerslide was used by 3Dfx to demonstrate their hardware capabilities.
•	Multi-player gameplay through LANs and the Internet - or play against Powerslide’s advanced AI opponents.
•	Optimized for today’s leading 3D accelerator cards, yielding highly-detailed graphics.
•	Incredible speed and responsiveness, resulting in a very realistic off-road racing experience.
•	Highly detailed racing tracks with wide lanes and multiple surfaces including sand dunes, swamps, mud and broken ground.
•	Dynamic weather conditions that will alter race conditions, including sand storms that cover tracks and hard rain which makes them very slippery.
•	Non-linear racing that allows players to drive over any surface type or object, including the sides of walls.  Players can also get up on two wheels and roll their vehicles.
•	Stunt features, including high-risk jumps, severe drop-offs, car-crunching barrel roles and tunnels, requiring players to race on walls and ceilings to negotiate corners.
•	Highly intelligent CPU artificial intelligence, whereby the computer will race as competitively as human opponents.
•	Multi-player game play through LANs and the Internet.
Contact Matt Broughton, Lee Kirton or Paul Fox at GT Interactive for further information.