CAPCOM®’S ONIMUSHA SERIES GOES HANDHELD

ONIMUSHA TACTICS™ FOR THE GAME BOY® ADVANCE

E3, LOS ANGELES - May 14, 2003 - Capcom®, publishers of the award-winning and multi-million unit selling Onimusha series of products, today announced Onimusha Tactics™ for the Game Boy® Advance. This new introduction to the critically acclaimed Onimusha series, features a deep evolving storyline with a strategy approach to the historical Onimusha World. Onimusha Tactics is scheduled to release this October.

Onimusha Tactics takes place in a world in which Genma, the evil creature of the underworld plans to invade the country to establish the Genma Empire. Ordered by their evil lord Nobunaga, the demon warriors begin their attacks on humans. Meanwhile, ayoung man of Ogre clan named Onimaru was training to attain higher sword skills when he received an urgent message from his master Momochi telling him to come home immediately. Hurrying back home, he encounters the evil legion of Genma which came to invade the land of Iga. Thus the battle begins. Taking a role of Onimaru and his legions, the player must conquer each map together with his units and move for absolute victory against evil.

Onimusha Tactics features a world map in which players can enhance equipment and each character’s abilities as well as create weapons and armor by using Genma Stones. In this world map the player also selects warriors (a maximum of eight) from his units for the next battle map. On the battle map players must usetheir unique abilities and the game’s detailed topography to defeat the encroaching evil ones. It will take keen strategy and cunning tactics in order to survive!

“Onimusha Tactics is a strong addition to the massively popular Onimusha series,” saidTodd Thorson, director of marketing, Capcom Entertainment. “This game combines a unique strategy approach exclusively designed for the Game Boy Advance with the richness of gameplay only Capcom can deliver.”

Capcom’s Onimusha line of products includes Onimusha: Warlords for the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system and Genma Onimusha for the Xbox™ video game system from Microsoft. Onimusha: Warlords was recipient of SIGGRAPH 2000 Computer Animation Festival “Best of Show” award and winner of PlayStation 2 People’s Choice Award for “PlayStation 2 Game of the Year” and PlayStation 2 People’s Choice Award for “Best Action/Adventure Game.”

Capcom Entertainment, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capcom, Co., Ltd. of Japan. A leading force in the multi-billion dollar interactive entertainment industry, Capcom’s legacy spans more than 22 years of entertaining video gamers. Capcom develops, markets, and distributes home video games for the PlayStation® game console, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, Nintendo GameCube™ and Xbox™ game consoles, Game Boy® Advance and Game Boy® Color Systems, personal computers, and coin-operated games. Worldwide recognizable product lines include the Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Mega Man, Breath of Fire, and Onimusha series. World headquarters in Osaka, Japan, the company also has offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, London and Sunnyvale, California. The company is publicly traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange code number 9697.

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