Highly-Anticipated, Quirky Nintendo DS Title Combines Adventure and
Puzzle Genres for Maximum Fun
LOS ANGELES, Mar 17, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Well-dressed adventurer Henry Hatsworth will enter hearts, minds and
Nintendo DS(TM) systems around the world as the EA Play Label of Electronic
Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) announces Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling
Adventure(TM) for Nintendo DS ships to stores in North America today
and will hit Europe later this week. Henry Hatsworthin the
Puzzling Adventure combines an exhilarating adventure game on the
top screen, and an enthralling puzzle game on the bottom screen, to
create an interactive game play experience unique to the DS.
"We are excited for players to experience how much fun it is to fuse
these two popular genres," said Scott Walker, Executive Producer.
"Casual players will enjoy jumping right into the fun, while more
seasoned gamers will really get into the strategy behind how to utilize
the puzzle to progress through the adventure."
Players will embark on a journey through a wonderful new style of gaming
as Henry Hatsworth, a light-hearted, tea-sipping British chap. As Henry,
the top Adventurer in the Pompous Adventurer Club, players will explore
35 levels in five exotic worlds. Players also will take on delightfully
strange opponents, including outrageous world-ending bosses such as
Leopold Charles Anthony Weasleby the Third (the #2 Adventurer in the
Pompous Adventurer Club) and Lance Banson (voted Sky Pirate Magazine's
Handsomest Most Eligible Bachelor of the Year).
Throughout the game, players switch back and forth between navigating an
action-platform game on the top screen, and mastering a fun yet
challenging puzzle on the bottom screen. Worlds collide as the player
begins to see how game play on the top and the bottom screens affect one
another, creating a cause and effect relationship. Players will defeat
enemies in the top screen only to find that they then become part of the
puzzle mode on the bottom screen. Players complete puzzle combinations
in the bottom screen to earn power ups, health and energy that will
enhance their ability to play in the adventure mode on the top screen. A
mastery of puzzle strategy and skill results in Tea Time, a supercharge
of energy where Hatsworth turns from his charming self into a giant,
indestructible mech robot!
Developed by a team at EA Tiburon in the EA Play Label, Henry
Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure is rated E for Everyone by the
ESRB and 7+ by PEGI. The game has an MSRP of $29.99. For more
information on Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure, visit http://www.henryhatsworth.com.
For assets, visit http://www.info.ea.com.
About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is
the world's leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded
in 1982, the Company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive
software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, cellular
handsets and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under
four brand names: EA SPORTSTM, EATM, EA SPORTS
FreestyleTM and POGOTM. In fiscal 2008, EA posted
GAAP net revenue of $3.67 billion and had 27 titles that sold more than
one million copies. EA's homepage and online game site is www.ea.com.
More information about EA's products and full text of press releases can
be found on the Internet at http://info.ea.com.
Electronic Arts, EA, EA SPORTS, EA SPORTS Freestyle, POGO and Henry
Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.
Nintendo DS is a trademark of Nintendo. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
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SOURCE: Electronic Arts Inc.
EA Play Label
Katie Carrico, Sr. Publicist, 310-754-7190
kcarrico@ea.com
Trudy Muller, Sr. PR Director, 650-628-2926
tmuller@ea.com
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