SEGA and Pyro Studios team up for Planet 51 game

SEGA® Europe, Ltd., SEGA® of America, Inc., and Madrid-based Pyro Studios® today announced a partnership to a create game based on its upcoming animated film, Planet 51. The Planet 51 game will be available in Winter 2009 for PC, Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system, WiiTM home video game system, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and the Nintendo DSTM portable handheld system.

Planet 51 is a galactic sized alien adventure comedy from the writer of “Shrek” and “Shrek 2?, the story revolves around American astronaut Captain Charles “Chuck” Baker who lands on Planet 51 thinking he’s the first person to step foot there. To his surprise he finds that this planet is inhabited by little green people who are happily living in a white picket fence world, reminiscent of a cheerfully innocent 1950s America, and whose only fear is that it will be overrun by alien invaders…like Chuck! With the help of his robot companion “Rover”, and his new friend Lem, Chuck must navigate his way through the dazzling, but bewildering, landscape of Planet 51 in order to escape becoming a permanent part of the Planet 51 Alien Invaders Space Museum.

“We are delighted to have SEGA on board,” commented Ignacio Perez Dolset , CEO of Pyro Studios and Ilion Animation Studios. ”Pyro strives to produce high quality games and we are pleased to have the right partner for worldwide publishing. Sega´s expertise in the video games industry, together with the quality of the game will make Planet 51 a Thanksgiving blockbuster”.

“SEGA are thrilled to be creating this new relationship with Pyro Studios,” commented Mike Hayes, President and COO of SEGA Europe. “We are continually striving to release games for all consumers and this project will enable us to further enhance our global entertainment business to a wider audience”.

The Planet 51 game will take the form of an entertaining mission-based driving game with various characters from the film available to play. The game allows audiences to immerse themselves into this amazing vibrant world, and truly experience the hours of fun that Planet 51 has to offer!