Sandlot Games Explores a New Frontier with Westward™

BOTHELL, WA (PRWEB) November 14, 2006 -

Sandlot Games Corporation, a leading publisher of casual games, announced the release of their ground-breaking new title, Westward™. A unique combination of Real-Time Strategy (RTS) and Simulation, Westward will challenge players of all levels with innovative gameplay, superior production value and an engaging storyline. Guaranteed to entertain players of every age with a price point of $19.99, Westward is available exclusively on http://www.sandlotgames.com and http://www.shockwave.com for the first two weeks of its release and afterwards on all major Internet game portals.

Enter the exciting world of the Wild West in Westward, where adventure and untold fortune await you, gold is there for the taking and bandits lurk around every turn. Control the destiny of three new settlements as they transform from dust to prosperous boomtowns, all while chasing down, and bringing to justice, the nefarious Mad Russian, a con artist extraordinaire. In Westward you are the director and the towns are your actors. Explore uncharted territory, manage a variety of resources, and deal with various natural disasters as you lead your town and the people in it to safety and success.

"Westward is blazing the trail with a fresh new type of casual game, while maintaining the rich gameplay and top-notch production values Sandlot Games is known for," said Daniel Bernstein, President and CEO of Sandlot Games. "With stellar production value and immersive storyline, Westward is in a class all its own."

Key Features Include:

• More than 10 playable main characters
• Over 25 buildings to customize your town and support an ever-expanding population
• Buy, sell and trade a variety of resources
• More than 20 levels of increasingly challenging frontier fun
• Evolving and ever-changing scenarios provide many hours of playing fun
• Hilarious dialogue
• Stunningly original graphics
• Engaging storyline

About Sandlot Games: Sandlot Games® Corporation is a premier publisher and developer of entertaining casual games across a variety of platforms. Sandlot Games provides a wide variety of popular game titles including Tradewinds™, Ballistik™, Super Granny™, Orbital™, Slyder™, Snail Mail™, Tradewinds 2™, Granny in Paradise™, Tradewinds Legends™ and the recently released Cake Mania™. Sandlot Games reaches millions of users worldwide through a variety of distribution channels, including web portals and desktop computers. Founded in 2002 by video game veteran Daniel Bernstein, Sandlot Games is headquartered in Bothell, Wash. For more information, please visit us at http://www.sandlotgames.com.

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