“City Interactive is pleased to have such a great team in place to spearhead our expansion,” said Marek Tyminski, CEO and Founder, City Interactive. “Because Art of Murder is one of the best-selling adventure games in Europe and the best-selling game in the history of our company, it’s a natural product for our North American and Latin American launches.”
City Interactive Americas is headed by Gabriel Del Castillo, who has extensive experience working for IBM, Price Waterhouse, Andersen Consulting and others.
“City Interactive’s culture of adapting to each market segment and capitalizing on the economies of scale that our own globalization allows, gives us the edge to successfully compete in these important markets,” said Del Castillo. “We are starting with PC games, but we will soon establish the company as a multiplatform publisher. With our global know-how and great game content, we’re set to make an impact from the start.”
Lisa Rivera, who has worked for such noted video game companies such as Take Two Interactive, Nintendo of America, Inc. and GT Interactive, brings twenty plus years of video game industry sales and marketing experience to City Interactive’s team of experts.
“City Interactive has a great team of people dedicated to making great games,” said Rivera. “I am so excited to be a part of the team launching the company in the U.S. and Canada. Our flagship title Art of Murder is sure to be a hit with adventure gamers, and this is just the start of the great games the company will offer.”
This is the story of young FBI agent Nicole Bonnet. Her first task is to solve a series of macabre murders where the victims are targeted as the wealthy and prominent of the community. The culprit’s weaponry is rare and leaves an unusual calling card by removing the heart of those they choose. The adventure begins in New York, but the clues will lead ambitious agent Bonnet as far as the Peruvian city of Cusco – the ancient capital of the Inca Empire, as well as on the border of the Amazon jungle.
City Interactive can confirmed that one of the main locations in the forthcoming adventure game Art of Murder will be the Peruvian city of Cusco. The city was once the capital of the Inca Empire and established around 1100 AD, it is now considered the archeological capital of America. All of the buildings are situated on original Inca foundations.
Art of Murder: FBI Confidential is a title intended especially for fans of adventure games, who enjoy the unsettling, dark atmosphere of thriller movies.
Features :
- A dark and intriguing storyline based on proven concepts and filled with unexpected twists, extraordinary characters, interesting dialogue and mind-tangling riddles
- An exceptional combination of classic solutions with innovative ideas, such as the possibility of the heroine's death
- Nearly 20 characters, approximately 100 riddles, 15 main locations (about 200 rendered views in total) and 5000 dialogue lines
- Incredibly detailed and varied pre-rendered sceneries, enriched with background animation –the graphics are designed by some of the best graphic artists and art directors in Poland.
- Three-dimensional characters who move in a natural way and cast realistic shadows
- High quality film scenes
- A gripping atmosphere, created through the combination of an extraordinary storyline, beautiful graphics, original music and realistic sound effects
- One of the longest and most exhilarating games in recent years
- Compatible with laptops
Schedule for release 2008.