Ubisoft Announces Open Season

Today Ubisoft, one of the world's

largest video game publishers, announced that the Open Season(tm) video

game, based on Sony Pictures Animation's first feature-length CG

animated film, will be shipping mid- September 2006 on all available

video game platforms, two weeks prior to the movie's September 29

release. Developed by Ubisoft's award-winning Montreal studio, Open

Season will allow gamers to relive the humor and adventure of the movie

by creating a fun and immersive interactive world that conveys the same

comedic storyline, zany characters and artistic images projected in the

animated film.

"We have been working hand-in-hand with Ubisoft's team to create a game

that captures all the fun of Open Season," said Mark Caplan, executive

director, interactive at Sony Pictures Consumer Products. "Sony

Pictures' leadership in digital entertainment coupled with Ubisoft's

award-winning development team is a great partnership that brings

innovation to both the film and video game businesses."

"Ubisoft is thrilled to be collaborating with the movie production team

of Open Season to bring the humorous adventures of Boog and Elliot to

the interactive world," said Tony Key, vice president of marketing at

Ubisoft. "Ubisoft is committed to making the best movie-based video

games in the industry. We do this by partnering closely with our

licensing partners and movie makers to create an experience that remains

true to the spirit of the film but expands it far beyond the theater."

Open Season is a riotous romp in the great outdoors, where the rowdy

brood of forest animals turns the tables on a bunch of unsuspecting

hunters. When a domesticated grizzly named Boog gets lured into leaving

the creature comforts of home by a fast-talking mule deer named Elliot,

he finds himself lost in the woods just three days before hunting

season. Forced to "rough it" in the great outdoors, Boog goes native,

rallying all the forest animals to take back their home and send the

hunters packing. The Open Season video game will allow player to relive

the movie experience by playing as Boog and Elliot. Game features

include: