Wanted Angelina Jolie…? Zapak.com gets her action movie – Wanted game on your computer screen
~The most popular text based Massively Multiplayer Online Game now in India~
Zapak.com, India’s leading online gaming portal today announced the launch of the most popular text based MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) – Wanted in India. This Fan Immersion Game (FIG) is based on 2009 action movie ‘Wanted’ starring Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman and James McAvoy. Wanted is internationally most acclaimed MMOG with more than 20,00,000 registered users worldwide.
Wanted is developed and published by Sweden-based company Stillfront AB. The game is steeped in the mythology of the film, which tells the story of an office drone recruited into a fraternity of assassins a ruthless secret society charged with carrying out the will of destiny.
As they progress through the game, players will build their character from an assassin in training to a powerful Fraternity leader.
They will use strategy to carry out exciting missions delivered by the Loom of Fate, and utilize micro-transactions to upgrade weapons and ammunition, gain healing abilities, and fortify their fraternity. Social networking aspects of the game allow players to recruit others into their fraternity, assign “hits” on competing players, and team up to take out unsuspecting rival targets.
Fan Immersion Game format encourages players to explore this mythology as they build and manage their own fraternity and also provides a fantastic online forum for fans to discuss their exploits in the game and the Wanted property in general.
The Game will be available at www.wanted.zapak.com
“Our strategy is to work with the leading casual online games provider in each territory worldwide. We are very excited about entering the Indian market together with Zapak.” said Marco Ahlgren, CEO, Stillfront AB.
Commenting on this initiative Rohit Sharma, Chief Operating Officer, Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd. said, “We are extremely happy to have launched this action packed MMOG in India. ‘Wanted’ is a very popular MMOG internationally and it will build up an amazing platform for the MMOG fans to experience something new with Zapak.com. We will be launching 3-4 more MMOG titles end of this year and hope to provide the very best to our gamers.”
About Stillfront AB
Stillfront is a pinoneering online game developer creating Fan Immersion Games based on high profile IPs. Stillfront AB is a privately owned company based in Uppsala, Sweden. The company was founded in 2007 and is releasing 4 FIGs in 2008.
Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd.:
Zapak is India’s largest gaming company that addresses the complete value chain for Online Gaming. With currently over 6.5 million registered gamers, Zapak.com is not only the largest casual gaming sites in the country but amongst the top gaming sites in the world. Zapak Gameplexes are the first of its kind, large-format dedicated gaming cafes with high- speed broadband and High-end PCs. There are 54 gameplexes present in 32 cities all across India to provide the Indian games world-class shared access. There will be about 500 Gameplexes all across the country in a year’s time. Zapak Games, the Licensing & merchandising arm of Zapak has created one of India’s largest retail distribution network with presence in over 4000 retail outlets across 50 cities all across India. Zapak Games has successfully distributed a lot of movie merchandise such as Bhootnath, Love Story 2050, Hari Puttar, Rock On and Drona. It has also launched merchandise around a popular TV animation called Bakugan. Zapak also plans to bring to India some of the world’s best MMOG titles by internationally renowned developers.
There are plans to introduce at least 5-6 MMOG’s with 2 titles to be launched this year. The first title in the series being ‘Crazy Kart’ in association with Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd. was launched in September ’08. Zapak Live is the BTL arm of Zapak that does a large number of tournaments, championships, events and conferences around the gaming space.
For further information, please contact:
Richa Anand Senthil Manoharan
Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd. Hanmer MS & L – Publicis Groupe
93246 20303 98848 76835
