ATLUS U.S.A., INC. ANNOUNCES Contact™ FOR THE NINTENDO DS™
An Offbeat Action RPG Packed with Hunting, Cooking, Fishing, Training, Collecting, and Romance!
IRVINE,
CA — March 3, 2006 — Atlus U.S.A., Inc., a leading publisher of
interactive entertainment, today announced the acquisition of the North
American publishing rights to Contact, an action role-playing game for the Nintendo DS. Developed in Japan by Marvelous Interactive Inc., Contact is scheduled for release in the summer of 2006.
"Contact
is the rare breed of quirky RPG that attracts a rabid fanbase with its
whacked-out story, setting, and characters," said Tomm Hulett, Project
Lead for Atlus U.S.A., Inc. "I'm excited that gamers will be able to
spread the fever to thousands of others with Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection."
About Contact
The klaxon alarm is shrieking! Something is wrong! The Professor
wrestles his damaged spaceship to a crash landing on a mysterious
planet.
In
the aftermath of the crash, The Professor discovers that the power
sources of his ship, known as Cells, have been scattered across the
surface of this strange world. To retrieve them all, The Professor
enlists the aid of a brave young man named Terry — and a brave video
game player known as you! The Professor and Terry will ask for your
help during the course of the adventure, using the Nintendo DS to
"contact" you along the way.
Will The
Professor gather the Cells and return to outer space? Will you learn
the goal of the mysterious organization that seeks to gather the Cells
for itself? The future of an entire world has been placed in your
hands!
Contact Key Features
- Abundant gameplay activities including animal-training, item-collecting, monster-hunting, and old-school mini-games!
- Dual-screen functionality with mission maps, interior/exterior viewpoints, and more!
- Real-time combat with special abilities and powerful "Decal Attacks"!
- Character design by Atsuko Fukushima, whose credits include the PSP hit PoPoLoCrois!
Contact has not yet been rated by the ESRB.
About Atlus U.S.A., Inc.
Located
in Irvine, California, Atlus U.S.A., Inc. is a publisher of challenging
and compelling video games for a variety of platforms, including the
Nintendo DS™, Nintendo Game Boy® Advance, and Sony PlayStation® 2.
Founded in 1991, Atlus U.S.A., Inc. is best known for its library of classic role-playing games, including Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, Trauma Center: Under the Knife, Magna Carta: Tears of Blood, and the Shin Megami Tensei series. For more information, visit http://www.atlus.com.
* Character and location names are tentative and subject to change.