The folks at Madfinger Games are bringing multiplayer battles to Tegra 3 powered Android devices. They announced at CES the new iteration in their Shadowgun series called, "Shadowgun: Deadzone", which supports up to 8 players with various multiplayer modes like deathmatch and team deathmatch. Unfortunately, this new game will be exclusive to Tegra 3 powered devices, but to get near-console quality multiplayer gaming on tablets should be well worth the investment for some gamers. Here's the full press release below:
MADFINGER GAMES ANNOUNCES MULTIPLAYER SHADOWGUN: DEADZONE AT CES 2012
Prepare to step onto the most dangerous galactic arena and battle your friends
Brno, Czech Republic – 9th January, 2012 -MADFINGER Games today revealed the first details about SHADOWGUN: DEADZONE, the new multiplayer game following the SHADOWGUN series, which just made its world debut at CES 2012 with NVIDIA. SHADOWGUN: DEADZONE will allow gamers to experience intense tactical multiplayer combat with up to eight players online. Along with the original SHADOWGUN, the new SHADOWGUN: DEADZONE uses stunning graphics and realistic 3D environment and characters, making the action incredibly lifelike.
SHADOWGUN: DEADZONE will be released in the first quarter of 2012 and will exclusively debut on NVIDIA Tegra 3-powered mobile devices.
By focusing on mobile platforms – such as smartphones and tablets – MADFINGER Games is creating the most advanced handheld multiplayer game in the market, optimized for superb performance and offering the same quality expected from console gaming systems. With SHADOWGUN: DEADZONE, consumers are treated to the stunning graphics of the original SHADOWGUN that breathed new life into the today„saction mobile games.
With SHADOWGUN: DEADZONE, Madfinger is expanding the multiplayer entertainment potential of smartphones, iOS devices and tablets. SHADOWGUN: DEADZONE will support Android mobile devices powered by the NVIDIA Tegra mobile processor, and will be featured on NVIDIA‟s Tegra Zone app, where consumers can find optimized games for Tegra-powered super phones and tablets.
“Each of us loves multiplayer games such as Battlefield or Modern Warfare 3, and we wanted to bring that same console gaming experience to mobile devices,“ said the Madfinger team.
SHADOWGUN: DEADZONE allows players to challenge up to seven friends to multiplayer battles in four different fantastic environments. They can choose one of eight different characters and several game modes, deathmatch or team deathmatch, that divides players into two groups of mutants and bounty hunters. Players can connect online via Wi-Fi to battle friends anywhere.
The professional console-quality graphics and easy-to-use controls of the original SHADOWGUN game are all intact. In addition, SHADOWGUN: DEADZONE brings new control elements such as sprint and roll, wider arsenal to be upgradable and character’s ranking, that unlocks new elements during playing. For an even better gaming experience, SHADOWGUN: DEADZONE will also support game pads and voice chat.
ABOUT MADFINGER GAMES
Located in Brno, beautiful city of Czech Republic, MADFINGER Games brings together a team of veteran console game developers. Their goal is to create console-quality games for iOS, Android mobile devices with a major emphasis on complete customer satisfaction. Their Samurai series has been downloaded over a three million times and received rave reviews across the web. Their most recent game, SHADOWGUN received outstanding reviews and high ratings, became Number One Game in 25 countries and has been included in “App Store Rewind 2011.”
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