Remember back here when we announced the online Search For Bourne game that ties into the upcoming movie The Bourne Ultimatum?
Well, today’s the day online users can start playing the game using Google tools to join the search for Jason Bourne (the role popularized by Matt Damon), the trained assassin who’s on the run trying to find out about his true past.
In the online game from Universal Pictures and Google, which is inspired by the Bourne film trilogy, players will assume the persona of a former CIA operative as they track rogue agent Jason Bourne across three continents. The game, which launches today simultaneously in seven countries, allows participants to answer clues that will bring them one step closer to uncovering Bourne’s identity, in the weeks leading to the opening of The Bourne Ultimatum on August 3, 2007.
Using Google tools including Search, Maps, Images, Translate, and YouTube, players will track Bourne online, in the hopes that what he knows will prove helpful in their own quests. With new clues and active game play provided to site visitors each weekday — 15 in total — the game concludes on the film’s opening day.
Participation is free, and contestants can sign up to play at www.google.com/bourne. Throughout the game, players will gain access to exclusive clips from The Bourne Ultimatum and will have the chance to win world-class prizes.
See details below from the official press release regarding the game’s related sweepstakes.
Along the way, registered users will have the chance to win amazing prizes, including the grand prize: a 2008 Volkswagen Touareg 2, designed to the specifications of the car seen in the film, as well as a four-city trip to international destinations featured in the movie and $25,000.
Four lucky winners will receive a trip of their choice to Tangier, Paris, London, New York City or Madrid. Each active day of the game, one player will receive a $1,000 MasterCard gift card and 10 players will receive the three-disc Bourne Files DVD collection. Additionally, players who complete each day’s task will be offered the option to catch Bourne using a game “surveillance camera” they will be able to place on a Google map. Those who successfully sight Jason Bourne 25 times or more during the course of the game will be entered into the “Sightings Sweepstakes.” From this pool, 10 lucky winners will be awarded the new Apple iPhone.
“The Ultimate Search for Bourne with Google” is open to residents of the United States and Canada (except Quebec), 18 years of age or older at the time of entry. Additional details and official rules are available at http://www.google.com/bourne.
A variation of the game is open to residents of Australia, New Zealand, Germany, the United Kingdom and France.
