Haarlem, The Netherlands – 1 June 2010 – Premier videogame publisher Iceberg Interactive today and Simsquared Ltd announce that their hardcore simulation game for PC Space Shuttle Mission Simulator: The Collector’s Edition has been shipped to retailers in time for its English release date of this Friday June 4th.

Features

• Experience the Liftoff shakes and engines roar right from the Commander's or Pilot's seats.
• Perform mission procedures: press buttons, rotate knobs, control the General Purpose Computer and manually guide the Shuttle to a safe landing etc.
• Perform variable-difficulty historical missions from STS-1 (the maiden flight), through secret DoD missions, and up to the recent ISS missions.

Includes

• Beautifully rendered Space Shuttle 3D virtual cockpit, Shuttle, International Space Station, Hubble, satellites
• TrueEarth™ Global Satellite Imagery – licensed from TerraMetrics Inc. These are the same textures used by Google Earth.
• First Person View, including Space Walks – you cannot get any closer to the ISS or Hubble than that!
• Launch Control, Mission Control, Shuttle and Astronauts audio smart communications.
• Three difficulty modes: from Novice which leads the "astronaut" through the tasks with context arrows and full text subtitles, to "Read the Manual and Checklists Commander!"
• TrackIR(tm) Support in 3D Virtual Cockpit and first person view during EVA
• Multiple-Monitor support for Matrox TripleHead2Go(tm) and Nvidia nView (tm)
• Native support for Vuzix iWear VR920 Stereoscopic goggles + head tracking. This is the closest you can get to the NASA VR Labs where Shuttle Astronauts train for ISS missions (on compatible systems).
• You can find more about the Space Shuttle Mission Simulator at the official website at www.space-shuttle-mission.com

About Exciting Simulations ™

Exciting Simulations ™ is an entertainment brand of Simsquared Ltd. – a leading developer of professional Virtual Reality Simulation applications with customers such as the US Coast Guard, US NAVY, Thales Group, NATO, Lockheed Martin, Textron Defense Systems, Elbit Systems etc.