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Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason Announcement

Kiev, Ukraine – May 1, 2006 - Action Forms is proud to announce the development of first person horror/action game with working title Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason which puts you in 1968 to the Arctic Circle, Russian North Pole station “Pole 21”. The main hero Alexander Nesterov is a meteorologist occasionally caught inside an old nuclear ice-breaker North Wind, frozen in the ice desert many years ago. This steel creature once fought for its life and freedom, but has fallen into an ice trap and all the creatures on its board lost not only their natural look, but a right to die. Cryostasis is a story about a drama of a Captain and his Ship evolving in the atmosphere of animal fear.

- The game develops with help of a unique system called Mental Echo - the ability to penetrate another character's memory and change the actions taken by the character in the past
- Highly detailed levels with thrilling gameplay
- More than 15 fearful enemies with unique capabilities
- 7 NPC’s which help to reveal the story
- Historically-authentic weapon types

The player’s goal is to prevent the ship's and captain's death using Mental Echo by correcting other characters' mistakes that have been made in the past.

The game is being developed on the proprietary top of the edge AtmosFear 2.0 engine which is on a par with the most advanced world’s game technologies. The main engine features are:

- Unified Dynamic Shadowing system – fully dynamic, moving light sources casting soft shadows on all objects
- Parallax mapping/displacement, alpha and color projective, depth of field, gloss map, tone mapping
- Advanced characters’ and objects’ physics
- Realistic fur dynamically illuminated by light sources

The game will be shown at E3 in Kentia Hall on the booth # 6059. For more information please visit: www.action-forms.com

About Action Forms:

Founded in 1995, Action Forms is a proven game development company which creates innovative, high quality and well recognized computer games using its proprietary leading technology awarded “Best Technology” at Russian Game Developers Conference in 2006. Over last 11 years, Action Forms has developed a number of games for commercial distribution, including the 3D action games entitled Chasm - the Rift, trilogy of 3D hunting games entitled Carnivores, Treasure Island and recently released first person shooter Vivisector: Beast Within which had been awarded “Best sound” at Russian Game Developers Conference in 2004 and “Best FPS of 2005” at Gameland Award.

Screenshots of the game you can find at www.action-forms.com in Games section.