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ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT, INC.'S 'BURNOUT(TM)' WINS IGN.COM'S 'EDITORS' CHOICE AWARD' New Arcade Driving Game for PlayStation®2 Computer Entertainment System Joins Company's Successful 'All-Star Baseball 2002' as Second Celebrated Title of 2001

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In 2001 Acclaim won IGN.com's 'Editor's choice award' twice for Burnout. Burnout was honored for its excellence in entertainment value, performance, design, originality and lasting appeal.

Burnout(TM) joined Acclaim's highly successful All-Star Baseball 2002, featuring four-time World Series" Champion and 2000 All-Star Game MVP shortstop Derek Jeter, which won the same award from the leading video game site earlier the same year. "We are thrilled to win our second 'Editors' Choice Award' from IGN.com and are very excited by the initial response to Burnout(TM) from both the media and consumers," said Evan Stein, vice president of Brand. "Already one of the most talked about titles available for the holiday season 2001, Burnout(TM) was poised to raise the bar for next-generation driving games."

The following text is taken from the orginal press release when Burnout was first released for the PS2: "Burnout was inspired by some of the most memorable car chase scenes from the greatest action films of all time. The game features an incredibly sophisticated and intelligent traffic system, which challenges players to race to the finish line at breakneck speeds through a myriad of trucks, cars and buses. With dramatic crashes possible with every turn of the wheel, competing drivers are rewarded for pushing the envelope and their skills to the extreme. Burnout(TM) also includes a simulated in-game heart monitor, which rewards the player with incredible bursts of speed as their pulse increases with every risk they take. "

Some history On August 8 2001 Acclaim Entertainment announced that it had entered into an exclusive global publishing agreement with Criterion Games Limited for their eagerly anticipated arcade driving game, Burnout(TM), for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system. The title, which had been in development with the UK-based developer for more than 18 months, was to be released in November 2001.

Founded in 1993, Criterion Software was a rapidly expanding organization, which at the time employed over 160 people in its software technology and game development divisions. The company was headquartered in Guildford UK, and had offices in Tokyo, Austin, Paris and Derby. Criterion Games was dedicated to the development of accessible and rewarding games for next-generation console systems such as the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Microsoft's Xbox' video game system and Nintendo's GAMECUBE'. Criterion Software was a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon, Inc.

Burnout gives you licence to drive a car the way you always wanted to - racing like a maniac through rush hour traffic, avoiding, causing and surviving dramatic pile-ups. Take the wheel of 9 different vehicles, including nippy compacts, speedy roadsters, power muscle cars - even a bus! Put the pedal to the metal on 14 circuits, set on highways and city streets around the world . Drive aggressively, putting your vehicle into long sliding drifts, racing into oncoming traffic, jumping traffic signals and speeding through cross-traffic. Every dice with death earns you more 'Burn', that you can use to tear up the road at turbo speeds. Every smash costs you time, but at least you can watch the spectacular collisions from every angle, in slow-motion, and save them to memory card to amaze your friends! Your opponents are a pack of ruthless computer drivers or another human player. Turn up the aggression and race against a friend in the two multiplayer modes, ramming them into walls, steering them into oncoming traffic or causing pile-ups that they have to swerve around or dive through!