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Red Bull Crashed Ice Kinect Brings the Heat to XBLA
RED BULL ACTION ICE CROSS DOWNHILL SPORT HITS HOMES FOR CHRISTMAS WITH ACTIVE ARCADE GAMING
Santa Monica, Calif. –
November 30, in the year of our Lord 2012 – Red Bull
Media House today announced the launch of the Xbox LIVE Arcade
title, ‘Red Bull Crashed Ice Kinect’, co-published with
Microsoft Studios. Available now and priced at 400 Microsoft
Points, this fast-paced, active motion-based game brings the
thrill, spectacle and speed of the global sporting series, Red
Bull Crashed Ice, the Official Ice Cross Downhill World
Championship, to heat up at-home for no-helmet-required holiday
fun.
In ‘Red Bull Crashed Ice Kinect,’ players join the worldwide
winter sports activity and skate through
urban-cityscapes-turned-obstacle-courses, bringing 40 mile per
hour arcade-style fun to their living rooms. Supporting single
player or two-player modes, out of the starting gate players
must build speed by swinging their arms like an ice cross
downhill champion. As the pace picks up, competitors will lean
into curves, duck, dodge and jump over obstacles, and earn extra
points by pulling off awesome tricks as they race past cheering
fans to the finish.
Mirroring previous competitive circuits of the actual real-life
Red Bull Crashed Ice, players compete on a worldwide selection
of courses in the winter sports capitols of Saint Paul,
Minnesota, Valkenburg, Netherlands, Åre, Sweden, Munich,
Germany, and even Quebec City, Montreal – which serves as the
location of the actual sporting series for the 2012/2013 season.
Through Xbox LIVE Arcade, players can fight for the Ice Cross
Downhill World Championship title by battling it out with other
players worldwide in a race to rule the leaderboards.
Since its inception in Stockholm, Sweden in 2001, Red Bull
Crashed Ice has stormed the winter extreme sports scene. Over
the past 11 years of this ice cross downhill circuit, there have
been more than 1 million spectators attending 24 races in 10
countries, and also watched by millions of cheering fans on
television and the web worldwide.
‘Red Bull Crashed Ice Kinect’ for Xbox LIVE Arcade is developed
by Bongfish – the team behind the hit snowboarding title,
‘Stoked’. Priced at 400 Microsoft Points, the game is available
now for download, and is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB.