Universal Pictures is collaborating with Google for the new online game “The Ultimate Search for Bourne with Google,” inspired by Universal’s Bourne action series (”The Bourne Identity,” “The Bourne Supremacy” and the most recent film in the series, “The Bourne Ultimatum”). Players will assume the persona of a former CIA operative as they track rogue agent Jason Bourne across three continents. The game, which launches Monday, July 16, 2007, 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.

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. 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.