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Title:
Real War
Tagline: Joint Forces: Land, Sea and Air
Platform: Win Me/98/95
Category: Real Time Strategy
Target Audience: Males 13 +, Real time strategy fans,
Military Sim Fans
Pricing:
Wholesale - $33/Estimated Street Price - $39.99
URL: www.real-war.com
Ship Date: August 2001
ISBN: 0-7435-0762-2
UPC: 0-76714-50762-3
Branding:
Based on the official Joint Chiefs of Staff training game developed
for the US Military.
Set
Up
Minimum Windows®
System Requirements:
266 MHz
64 MB ram
3D card optional
Direct draw compatible video card
8 x CD
Recommended
500
MHz
64 MB
ram
Direct
X compatible 3D accelerator
ISBN:
0-7435-0762-2
UPC:
0-76714-50762-3
Case Pack
Quantity: 12
Box Size:
8 ¾ x 10 ¼ x 2 ¼
Carton
Size: 18 ½ x 21 ½ x 14 ½
Product
Overview
This is based on the official
Joint Chiefs of Staff training game developed for the United States
Military. It is the only Real Time Strategy Game (RTS) using modern
military units and weaponry in current world game scenarios.
Choose your side, marshal your forces, and make real war
upon your enemy.
Product
Summary
Real
War blends the ease of a real time strategy game with units, weaponry
and scenarios currently utilized by the United States Joint Chiefs
of Staff to train military personnel. Terrorist Forces are threatening
the free world, and the only power capable of stopping them is the
U.S. Military. Choose your side, either the U.S. Military or the
Terrorist Independent Liberation Army (ILA), marshal your forces
and make real war upon your enemy, in the only RTS game where you
are in command of today's military forces. All jets, ships and ground
vehicles are taken directly from today's military - with a few special
items right off the Pentagon's drawing boards. Real War delivers
a stunning one-two punch of 3-D vehicles with their realistic movement
against the backdrop of a richly detailed 2D world - with jungle,
desert, arctic and plains environments. Fight online against up
to 3 other commanders in a variety of multiplayer scenarios. No
base building, no resource gathering, just pure strategy and glorious
combat!
Key
Features
·
Today’s
Military Units in an RTS game.
·
Encounter top-level AI as used in the official training
game.
·
Play as either the U.S. Military or the Terrorist Independent
Liberation Army (I.L.A.)
·
Control more than 50 military units, all of which become
tougher and faster with experience.
·
Deploy special units including spy satellites, propaganda
planes, stealth bombers and electronic warfare planes.
·
Engage in 24 missions, split between the US and the
ILA. Win as either side.
·
Utilize Special Forces on terrain where no other units
can go.
·
Employ anti-personnel measures form mines to nuclear
missiles to chemical weapons.
·
Fight online against up to 3 other commanders in a variety
of multiplayer scenarios.
·
Build and protect supply lines to bring in resources
– no artificial resource gathering.
·
Intuitive interface that lets you quickly and easily
locate any of your units.
·
Build and command off-screen units without moving to
their locations.
·
Organize simultaneous attacks using different units.
·
Zoom feature that lets you zoom in on one unit or pull
out to view the whole battle.
Previews
Theres
a hole in the gaming market right now modern military real-time
strategy games. Theres nothing out right now that lets you
control a modern military in a real-time strategy game. Nothing
until Simon & Schuster releases Real War, that is.
Gamers.com Preview 12/11/00
A
real war game from the people who make real wars.
IGN preview 12/22/00
The
game looks fantastic
IGN preview 3/8/01
Target
Demographic
Primary:
RTS fan base (i.e. Starcraft, Age of Empires, etc.)
Secondary:
Military Gamers
How
It Differs From the Competition
· Real
War is the only game which uses accurate modern military units and
weapons in the RTS genre. The competition is either historical
or Sci-Fi/fantasy. Real War fills a gap in the marketplace.
·
Real
War is the only game based on the official Joint Chiefs of Staff
training game developed for the US Military
.
· It
is a hybrid of the 2D and 3D RTS games combining a richly detailed
2D environment with dynamic 3D units.
· It
is the only game that makes use of artificial intelligence simulations
used to train the United States military.
Competitive
Category Sales
|
Product
|
1st
appeared
|
Units
|
Avg. Price
|
|
Command & Conquer:
Red Alert 2
|
10/1/00
|
135,025
|
$38.71
|
|
Starcraft (Original,
Expansion, Battlechest
|
12/98
|
1999-601,291
2000-433,086
|
Varies- $11-50
|
|
Ground Control
|
6/1/00
|
35,968
|
$38.73
|
|
Shogun: Total War
|
6/1/00
|
84,664
|
$34.07
|
|
Homeworld
|
9/1/99
|
159,606
|
$30.60-$45.49
|
|
Homeworld: Cataclysm
(Expansion Pack)
|
9/1/00
|
29,395
|
$37.72
|
Rationale
for Launching This Product
Fills
an unmet niche in an extremely popular PC game genre and offers
the opportunity to additionally reach out to military gamers as
well as gamers in the military.
Packaging
Strategy
·The
packaging will emphasize the fact that this is a Real Time Strategy
game and not
·just
another Military Sim.
·It
will show that this is the commercial version of a game that was
the property of the US military and was used for training purposes.
·Large
U.S. Flag image will make it pop.
Channel
Marketing Strategy
Primary
Sales Channels: Core distribution in mass, clubs and superstores
Alternative
Channels: Online sales opportunities, Viral and Guerilla marketing
Promotional
Opportunities: Radio, cross promotions
Demo
Plans
- A single
player demo and a public beta test of multiplayer
- Demo Disc
PC Gamer June issue
Promotion
Exposure
- On-Line Multiplayer
Contest with Gamespy.com
- On-Line and
Radio Give-A-Ways
Promotion
Partners
TBD
Promotional
Product Descriptions
50
Word Description:
Enhanced
version of the Official Military Joint Forces Game. The only RTS
using modern military units and weaponry in real world game scenarios.
Play as current US military units or as a terrorist army extrapolated
from actual terrorist forces. Photo-realistic maps in jungle, desert,
arctic and plains environments. Multiplayer for up to 4 people.
25
Word Description:
Enhanced
version of the training game used by the United States Military.
The only RTS using modern military units and weaponry in real world
game scenarios.
10
Word Description:
Modern
military Real-Time Strategy using real military Artificial Intelligence
Advertising
Consumer
Print
- PC Gamer
full page September issue
- PC Gamer
full page October issue
- Computer
Games Magazine full page September issue
- Soldier of
Fortune Magazine full page September issue
- Army and
Navy Times full pages every other week in September
- Army Magazine
August issue
- Real War
demo disk on PC Gamer August issue
Trade
Print
E3 Show Daily
Radio
Give-aways on pop AM/FM stations in top 15 markets using voice
overs and signed copies of the game
Online
- Jim Omer,
the president of Rival Technology will be available for interviews
- Affiliate
Promotion program with major game sites (IGN, Gamespot, Adrenaline
Vault, etc)
- Banner ads
- Online giveaways
- Email aggregation
program
- Viral Marketing
campaigns
- Chat
- Message boards
(Featured game site, Simon Says and Affiliate sites)
- Real War
will launch its exclusive site http://www.real-war.com in March, 2001
- Site will
be maintained by OC, Inc. and features stage-by-stage developments
in the games progress leading up to release; news about the game;
new and revised screenshots, online chats between developers and
technical support information.
- Ecommerce
Publicity
Special
Review Mailing
- Demos
will be sent to 4 major print media groups
- Beta copies
will be sent to all major gaming sites and magazines along with
brochures
National
Review Mailing
More
than 300 review mailings to newspapers, television, radio and on-line
sites
- Beta mailing
to key game and software pubs
- Final product
mailing to all game and PC pubs, news and entertainment TV &
radio, all on-line review media
Online
Publicity
Viral
Marketing Campaign to include below sites:
- http://www.sofmag.com/
- http://www.armedforces.com/
- http://www.commissaries.com/
- http://www.seanet.com/~gtate/mil2.htm
- http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/9343/
- http://www.militarycity.com/
- http://www.military.com/index/0,11455,,00.html
- http://www.militarypress.com/
- http://www.estripes.com/
- http://www.jedonline.com/
- http://www.stripes.com/servlet/News/frontPage
- http://www.af.mil/news/
- http://www2.acc.af.mil/combat-edge/
- http://www.airforcetimes.com/
- http://www.militarydataresource.com/
- http://www.vfs-121blackhearts.com/mainpage/121Blackhearts.htm
· http://www.usmilitary.about.com/careers/usmilitary/cs/swgames/
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