PlanetSide: Core Combat expansion announced
by VGLN Staff

Monday, August 18, 2003

The first expansion to the first MMOFPS.

Sony Online Entertainment announced PlanetSide: Core Combat, the first expansion for its popular massively multiplayer online first-person action game, PlanetSide. PlanetSide launched on May 19, 2003 and has already attracted more than 60,000 subscribers. The expansion will focus on alien technology discovered deep in underground caverns, adding more vehicles, weapons and battlegrounds under the planet Auraxis. PlanetSide: Core Combat will be available this October at retail and as a secure digital download from SOE.

"PlanetSide is growing everyday and fans are constantly asking for more," said Michael Lustenberger, director of product marketing, Sony Online Entertainment. "With this first expansion, the dynamic of the game will evolve as all three PlanetSide empires battle to secure powerful new technology in order to dominate the planet Auraxis both on the surface and underground."

PlanetSide: Core Combat adds a new style of gameplay to PlanetSide with head-to-head urban warfare, testing players' skills as they react quickly to enemy troops in high-adrenaline fire-fights in subterranean alien complexes. With six new underground war zones, additional weapons, vehicles, and enhanced empire bonuses, Core Combat creates a new dimension for players to master in PlanetSide's all-hours-of-the-day online conflict.

About PlanetSide: Core Combat
PlanetSide: Core Combat brings the action of PlanetSide, the world's first massively multiplayer online first-person action game, underground. With more gameplay options for players in PlanetSide's vast game world where thousands of players can battle all hours of the day, PlanetSide: Core Combat takes squad-based combat to the next level. Players choose their allegiance and enlist with one of three unique empires in the fight for total domination on a global scale. Characters gain experience with every conflict, and can become one of the best in more than 30 combat specialties, including infantry, sniper, stealth commando, engineer, hacker, medic, pilot, driver and more. PlanetSide: Core Combat also features:

---Expanded game world with six new war zones
---New ancient alien technology, vehicles and weapons available to all Empires and players
---Head-to-head urban warfare in subterranean cities
---Unique alien complexes to explore and conquer
---New underground environments from volcanic lava flows to ice caverns
---Ancient technology can be used by all Empires to upgrade existing surface level facilities

PlanetSide: Core Combat requires a copy of PlanetSide to play. The new expansion will be downloadable via the PlanetSide launch pad. Additionally, retailers will be offering a boxed version. For more information on PlanetSide: Core Combat, please visit: http://www.planetside.com.

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