Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Announces The Launch Of “Watchmen: The End Is Nigh” Part 2

(July 21, 2009 – Burbank, CA) – “Watchmen: The End is Nigh” Part 2, the second of two episodic action videogames based on the “Watchmen” film, launches today on the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and as a Blu-ray Hi-Def game and film hybrid – “Watchmen: The End is Nigh The Complete Experience” - in conjunction with Warner Home Video’s Blu-ray Hi-Def and DVD of the “Watchmen: Director’s Cut. Watchmen: The End is Nigh” Part 2, published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, is offered in an innovative retail Blu-ray Hi-Def game and film hybrid, as well as additional retail and downloadable formats in North America. Providing “Watchmen” fans with a variety of purchase options, the game will be offered in the following formats. • “Watchmen: The End is Nigh The Complete Experience” is a distinct, retail Blu-ray Hi-Def game and film hybrid which will include the “Watchmen: The End is Nigh” Parts 1 and 2 video game and the “Watchmen: Director’s Cut” on Blu-ray. This two-disc collectible set of the action-packed blockbuster includes an additional 25 minutes of footage not seen in theaters and exclusive artwork in a premium collector’s package. Both the game and Blu-ray disc are playable on the PLAYSTATION®3 entertainment system. “Watchmen: The End is Nigh The Complete Experience” launches today for a retail price of $49.99. • “Watchmen: The End is Nigh” Parts 1 and 2 is available today for the first time as a single game on Xbox 360 for $29.99. • “Watchmen: The End is Nigh” Part 2 will be available for download on PC on July 29 and PlayStation®Network on July 30 for a retail price of $14.99, and on Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360 on August 26 for 1200 Microsoft Points. “Watchmen: The End is Nigh” Part 2 is a hardcore mature action brawler featuring bloody visceral combat in settings which are reminiscent of the film. “Watchmen: The End is Nigh” Part 1 takes place more than a decade before the film’s main story, delving into the partnership of urban vigilantes Rorschach and Nite Owl before the hero-banning Keene Act. In Part 2 the duo teams up again as Rorschach contacts Nite Owl to help solve the case of a missing girl, Violet Greene. The game features a split screen co-op multiplayer option in addition to a single-player experience with an A.I. partner. Staying true to the tone of the “Watchmen” world, “Watchmen: The End is Nigh” Part 2 features stunning graphics in gritty settings. Players can battle as many as twenty enemies at the same time in bloody, intense street-fighting action. “Watchmen: The End is Nigh” Parts 1 and 2 feature nine chapters of gut-wrenching action, including locales from the film, allowing for hours of intense gameplay and a fully developed storyline. About “WATCHMEN” Released nationwide on March 6, 2009, “Watchmen” is a complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the Doomsday Clock—which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union—moves closer to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the outlawed but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach uncovers a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with catastrophic consequences for the future. Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures present, in Association with Legendary Pictures, a Lawrence Gordon/Lloyd Levin Production, a Zack Snyder Film, “Watchmen.” The film stars Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Patrick Wilson. “Watchmen” is directed by Zack Snyder and produced by Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin and Deborah Snyder. The screenplay is by David Hayter and Alex Tse, based upon the graphic novel co-created and illustrated by Dave Gibbons and published by DC Comics. Herbert W. Gains and Thomas Tull are the executive producers, with Wesley Coller serving as co-producer. About DC Comics DC Comics, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, is the largest English-language publisher of comics in the world and home to such iconic characters as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the Sandman. These DC Super Heroes and others have starred in comic books, movies, television series (both animated and live-action) and cyberspace, thrilling audiences of all ages for generations. DC Comics’ Web site is located at www.dccomics.com. About Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, is a premier worldwide publisher, developer, licensor and distributor of entertainment content for the interactive space across all current and future platforms, including console, handheld and PC-based gaming for both internal and third party game titles. WATCHMEN and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © DC Comics. # # #