March 9, 2004

Race with Fame! Actress Michelle Rodriguez to Challenge Gamers on Xbox Live

She ruled the roads in The Fast and The Furious, and now she's ready to show off her racing skills in Project Gotham Racing® 2. Actress Michelle Rodriquez, star of such action films as The Fast and the Furious, S.W.A.T., Resident Evil and Blue Crush is the latest celebrity to challenge gamers in Xbox Live's "Game with Fame" contest series. Michelle's Gamertag will be announced on http://www.xbox.com/live,  so that gamers will be able to join her Friends List and challenge her for a game of Project Gotham Racing 2, from 2:30-3:30 p.m. PST on March 12.

Project Gotham Racing 2 is the follow-up to the smash hit Project Gotham Racing. Rewarding drivers for racing with speed, style and daring, Project Gotham Racing 2 offers circuit-based racing through highly detailed city environments. Racers can choose from more than 100 of the hottest cars - from speed-drenched exotics to sweet import tuners - while power-sliding through the streets of 10 exciting cities, drifting around corners and accelerating through the straightaways before moving to a different venue. PGR 2 now sets the standard for online racing via Xbox Live online game service. Players can match up against seven other friends online utilizing Xbox Live for intense grudge matches, or play the entire single-player game with online-enabled downloadable ghosts, real-time scoreboards, and soon, new downloadable cars and tracks. Nearly 200,000 gamers are playing PGR 2 on Xbox Live worldwide.

Xbox Live's "Game With Fame" promotion gives game fans the opportunity to play on Xbox Live against some of today's hottest stars. Past "Game with Fame" celebrity players include Big Boi from OutKast, Jonathan Davis from KoRn and the members of New Found Glory.

Xbox Live, which launched in the United States Nov. 15, 2002, allows gamers to play multiplayer Xbox games with other gamers worldwide via a broadband connection. With a built-in hard drive and Ethernet port, the Xbox console is the only video game system built from the ground up for online gaming. Xbox Live enables gamers to easily find their friends; talk to other players during gameplay through the Xbox Communicator headset; download current statistics and new levels and characters to their Xbox hard drive; and play online -- all exclusive features to Xbox Live.

Xbox ( http://www.xbox.com/ ) is Microsoft's future-generation video game system that delivers the most powerful games experiences ever. Xbox empowers game artists by giving them the technology to fulfill their creative visions as never before, creating games that blur the lines between fantasy and reality. Xbox is now available in North America, Japan, Europe and Australia.

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