New HyperScan Game System Combines Card Collecting and Video Gaming to Create All New Category of Play
HyperScan brings together classic collector card play and modern video gaming capabilities, allowing players to collect and then scan cards, develop their battle abilities and enhance the power of video game characters over time. This off-category hybrid gaming system uses CD-ROM and RFID technology uniting collector card games and video games in a complex, highly customizable, yet easy to use system. Available this October, HyperScan is designed for children ages eight and older and combines re-writable Intellicard technology with ... read morethe fast-paced, button-mashing action of video games for the first time in the video game space.
"HyperScan delivers an all-new category of video gaming for today’s kids, with the hottest properties such as Marvel X-Men and Cartoon Network’s Ben 10," said Cynthia Neiman, Vice President, Games & Interactive Marketing, Mattel Brands. "This new game system bridges the gap in gaming experiences for the tween boy who has graduated from traditional plug & play games but is not quite ready for the mature content and expense of high-end video game consoles. HyperScan gives them another option, offering kids an entirely new way to play collector card games and video games in one, with age-appropriate content. It is a hybrid that combines two play patterns into an ever greater experience."
HOW IT WORKS - SCAN, BATTLE, RE-SCAN
Players can bring their favorite characters to life on the screen by scanning their cards over the HyperScan console. In the CD-ROM play mode they can pause the game and scan their collectibles to modify their battle skills and increase character-specific performance. Once the battle is won players need to rescan the cards in order to record their new abilities on their Intellicard. When they enter the game next time the abilities and the performance statistics are taken from the card directly. The HyperScan collectible cards are distributed on a random basis (aka rarity scheme) and the players won’t know the contents of a game pack before opening it to make collecting a more exiting and motivating activity.
Hyper-cool features include:
- RFID scanning technology to bring favorite characters to life and upgrade them in the course of virtual battles
- Advanced 32-bit processor rivalling regular consol games
- Each title (game) supports about 100 different game cards, including a dozen or more character cards and 80+ skill modifiers which means 20 to 40 hours of cutthroat play on each character card. .
- Initial software titles available at launch include Marvel X-Men, Cartoon Network’s Ben 10 (based on the network’s hit TV show) and Mattel’s Interstellar Wrestling League. Marvel Heroes will also be released for the HyperScan game system in November 2006.
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