Herbie: Fully Loaded

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PRESS RELEASE
Start Your Engines! Coming Soon: Disney's Herbie: Fully Loaded

Title: Disney's Herbie Fully Loaded
Format: GBA
Release Date: August 5th
Developer: Climax
Publishing Label: Disney Interactive

Buena Vista Games (BVG), the interactive entertainment arm of The Walt Disney Company, announced today its action-packed racing game, Disney's Herbie: Fully Loaded, is being released on Game Boy® Advance on August 5th. Inspired by the upcoming feature film "Herbie: Fully Loaded" starring Lindsay Lohan, Disney's Herbie: Fully Loaded gives players the ride of a lifetime in Herbie, one of the world's most beloved cars.

"Disney's Herbie: Fully Loaded puts all the racing fun of the movie into the palm of your hand," said Matt Carroll, director of Buena Vista Games UK & Ireland. "We are excited to bring an interactive and entertaining racing experience to new and long-standing Herbie fans of all ages."

With fun power-ups, an engaging story mode and movie-based assets, Disney's Herbie: Fully Loaded enters the racing world with a personality of its own. The circuit-based 3D racing game offers a single-player adventure in the high-octane world of stock car racing as players control Herbie in a series of races against AI-controlled opponents. Featuring fun racing moves to match Herbie's personality and a real-time mood meter reflective of player results, Disney's Herbie: Fully Loaded will bring delight to longtime fans and newcomers alike as the first video game based on the popular Disney franchise.

Developed by Climax Group, Inc. and published by Buena Vista Games' Disney Interactive game label, Disney's Herbie: Fully Loaded for Game Boy Advance is rated 3+ by Pegi rating.

About the Film
Start your engines! Walt Disney Pictures presents Herbie, the most beloved car star of them all, and Lindsay Lohan's got him in Disney's all new revved-up comedy adventure, HERBIE: FULLY LOADED. Lohan stars as Maggie Peyton, the new owner of Number 53 – the freewheelin' Volkswagen bug with a mind of its own – who puts the car through its paces on the road to becoming a NASCAR competitor. Herbie's got some new tricks under his hood as he takes audiences for an action-packed spin in this high-speed comedy. With an all-star cast along for a wild ride, this comedy puts Herbie to the test – on-road, off-road, on the track and into the record books. HERBIE: FULLY LOADED races into theatres on June 22, 2005. The film has been rated "G."

HERBIE: FULLY LOADED, directed by Angela Robinson, story by Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant and Mark Perez, screenplay by Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant and Alfred Gough & Miles Millar, and starring Lindsay Lohan, Justin Long, Breckin Meyer with Matt Dillon and Michael Keaton.

About Buena Vista Games
Buena Vista Games, Inc. (BVG) is the interactive entertainment arm of The Walt Disney Company. The division publishes markets and distributes a broad portfolio of multi-platform video games and interactive entertainment worldwide. The company also licenses properties and works directly with third-party interactive game publishers to bring products for all ages to market. For more information, please log on to www.buenavistagames.com.