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[04/17/12 - 07:02 AM]
"Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat" Available Now in North America
The multi-platform offering contains 30 new weapons, a brand new arena and episodes of the popular show exclusive to the game.

[via press release from Spike TV]

"Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat" Available Now in North America

345 Games Retail Compilation of Downloadable Xbox LIVE(R)Arcade/PlayStation(R)Network Titles "Deadliest Warrior: The Game" and "Deadliest Warrior: Legends" is On Shelves Now

NEW YORK, April 17, 2012 -- "Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat," the retail compilation of "Deadliest Warrior: The Game" and "Deadliest Warrior: Legends," is available now at North American retailers for the Xbox 360(R) video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation(R)3 computer entertainment system. The disc-based game/TV show hybrid, based on the successful multi-platform Spike TV series "Deadliest Warrior" that pits two of the most feared warriors history has ever known against each other in a battle to the death, contains 30 new weapons, a brand new arena and episodes of the popular show exclusive to the game. Also, gamers who preordered "Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat" at GameStop before April 17, 2012, will receive an exclusive DVD featuring additional never-before-released episodes of the hit show.

The players themselves will get to answer the question of "Who is the deadliest?" as they can take control of history's most brutal warriors, choose a weapon, and then apply their own skills to answer that question on their terms.

"Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat" combines the wildly popular downloadable console games, "Deadliest Warrior: The Game" and "Deadliest Warrior: Legends," in addition to all downloadable content packs, an exclusive new level, 30 new weapons and exclusive TV show content. Fans of the show will be treated to never-before-released episodes from all three seasons.

Notable features include:

The brand new "Graveyard" arena exclusive to "Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat"

30 new weapons, including a "Lockbar Axe" for William Wallace, the "Monk's Spade" for Sun Tzu and a "Tsonga Battle Axe" for Shaka Zulu

Both digital titles and all DLC included for only $29.99

Cross-play with consumers of the original digitally-distributed titles

Hidden zombie mode allows players to keep on fighting even headless, armless and torso-less

Never-before-released episodes of the show exclusive to "Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat"

Preorder "Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat" and receive the GameStop exclusive DVD featuring two full episodes of the TV series, including one never-before-released on DVD!

Do you have what it takes to be the "Deadliest Warrior"? Rated 'M' for Mature by the ESRB, "Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat" is available today with a $29.99 MSRP at North American retailers everywhere. For more information about "Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat" please visit deadliestwarrior.spike.com or follow the game on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/deadliestwarrior.

ABOUT 345 GAMES

345 Games, the video game arm of COMEDY CENTRAL and Spike TV, develops products based on the MTV Networks Entertainment Group's franchises and brands. The first two titles to be released under this label included COMEDY CENTRAL's hit animated show "Ugly Americans" and Spike TV's successful multi-platform series "Deadliest Warrior."

ABOUT DEADLIEST WARRIOR

Each week on Spike TV's "Deadliest Warrior," episodes pit two of the most feared warriors civilization has ever known against each other. Along with the use of 21st century science and the latest in CGI technology, each episode enlists warrior-specific world-class fighters and experts to provide insight into what makes these combatants tick, analyzing every facet of their unique skills of destruction, culminating in a head-to-head final fight between two legends of the battlefield that will produce the deadliest warrior. Highly-lauded showdowns include: Joan of Arc vs. William the Conqueror, Saddam Hussein vs. Pol Pot, Hannibal vs. Genghis Khan, US Army Rangers vs. North Korean Special Operations Force. Check out "Deadliest Warrior" on Facebook

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