WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?: SPECIAL EDITIONS OUT NOW ON XBOX LIVE® MARKETPLACE AND PLAYSTATION®NETWORK
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?: Special Editions main game released alongside South Park and Movie expansion packs
23rd November 2011 – Hampshire, UK/… Today, Deep Silver launched the first digital download releases for its exciting quiz format game series Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?: Special Editions onPlayStation®3 and the Xbox 360®video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Players will be able to bring all the excitement and atmosphere of the original TV programme to their home console, but with the added unique feature of special licensed question packs, each containing hundreds of extra questions from a specific field, such as movies, sports, or music.
As well as the main Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?: Special Editions game, featuring more than 1,200 questions covering all fields of knowledge, the first two special edition packs are also available to download now:S outh Park – Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Special Edition and W ho Wants To Be A Movie Millionaire?
Further game packs, themed around well known characters, brands and themes will follow in the future. This new game range is developed by doublesix digital under license from 2waytraffic International, part of Sony Pictures Television, which owns and licenses the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? format around the world.
In Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?: Special Editions contestants participate in the fastest finger round and then scale a mountain of questions in the quest for that elusive virtual million, making judicious use of the three classic lifelines – 50:50, Ask The Audience, and Phone-A-Friend. It’s a social experience, too: up to four friends can compete locally to outdo each other, with each person’s score dependent on their speed.
The South Park – Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Special Edition, developed in collaboration with South Park Digital Studios, is based on the Emmy® And Peabody® Award-Winning Series South Park . It offers hundreds of specific questions based on the South Park universe, set in a fully themed Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?studio and featuring an original South Park introduction.
The Millionaire set, audience - including main South Park characters - lifelines and contestants are all themed around the classic animated series. The pack also includes five player avatars, designed especially by South Park, alongside more than 600 questions taken from all 15 seasons of the show. Even the Phone-A-Friend lifeline features characters from the South Park world - but can you really trust Mr Hankey the Christmas Poo to give you the right answer?
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? originally launched in the UK in 1998 and its popularity quickly spread around the world. Thirteen years on, the format has been sold in 120 countries, producing dozens of millionaires around the globe.
South Park launched on August 13, 1997. The series is syndicated in more than 130 territories and translated into 30-plus languages. Co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are executive producers, along with Anne Garefino, of the Emmy® and Peabody® Award-winning South Park. Frank C. Agnone II is the supervising producer. Eric Stough, Adrien Beard, Bruce Howell and Vernon Chatman are producers. South Park's Web site is
The first three Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?: Special Editions releases can now be purchased from the PlayStation®Store (main game £7:99; South Park £4:49; Movie £1:99) and the Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft (main game 800; South Park 400 and Movie theme pack 240 Microsoft Points). In addition to this, there’s a free XBLA single player trial version of the main game available, including a set of the first seven questions.
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