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Mythic Entertainment’s Dark Age of Camelot: Shrouded Isles
Claims Number One Spot for Online Products
Expansion Outsells All Online Game
Competition
With Sales of Over 110,000 Copies in
North America
FAIRFAX, VA – FEBRUARY 6, 2003 -- Mythic Entertainment (www.mythicentertainment.com)
today announced that Dark Age of Camelot: Shrouded Isles, its first
expansion pack to the fastest growing online game of all time, was the
top-selling online game for December 2002 and the 15th top selling
PC game, according to NPD Techworld. Since its release in early December 2002,
the game has sold over 111,000 copies.
"Dark Age of Camelot: Shrouded
Isles has outsold all other massively multiplayer online game releases in
December, including The Sims Online from Electronic Arts, as well as Asheron's
Call 2 from Microsoft," said Mark Jacobs, President and CEO of Mythic
Entertainment. “Almost 90% of Dark Age of Camelot's US-server player base has
purchased Shrouded Isles and we look forward to continuing this 'top of the
charts' trend as we expand our player base in the US and around the
world."
Shrouded Isles has already
received critical acclaim, including Expansion Pack of the Year from IGN’s RPG
Vault and GameSpot. It has also been nominated for an Interactive Achievement
Award from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, in the category PC
Massively Multiplayer/Persistent World Game of the Year. Dark Age of Camelot won in this category in
2002.
Shrouded Isles extends the story and enhances the action of Dark
Age of Camelot with new character classes, new races, and three new
continents, displayed in an all- new graphics engine, with the ultimate in
visual effects. The expansion also features a revamped user-interface, and an
all-new ambient music system that randomly constructs musical expressions based
on the player’s location and time of day.
Other graphical improvements in Shrouded
Isles include almost one hundred new monster models and almost 400 hundred
new weapon, armor, and shield graphics - but the additions in this expansion
are more than skin deep. Shrouded Isles has many new quests, thousands
of new monster encounters, and an innovative artificial intelligence system
enabling monsters to behave and attack in deadly new ways.
Shrouded Isles takes full
advantage of NVIDIA graphics processors (GPU’s), including the new GE Force FX
GPU, to bring the 3D world to life like never before. The game also features an updated version of NDL’s NetImmerse
game engine that allows high resolution textures to make the elements of the
game more realistic. According to GameSpot,
the graphics are “easily the best we’ve seen in an online RPG to date.”
Shrouded Isles was developed by Mythic Entertainment and
co-published with Abandon Entertainment, and is distributed by Vivendi Universal
Games in North America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Over 600,000 people have played Dark
Age of Camelot, with over 65,000 people around the world playing
simultaneously at peak times. Currently there are over 210,000 paying
subscribers to Dark Age of Camelot.
Since the release of Dark Age of Camelot, the game has become one of the most acclaimed online games of all time; GameSpot
gave the game 9.1 out of 10, and named it Multiplayer Role Playing Game of the
Year and one of the top ten PC games of 2001; USA Today and MSNBC both named
the game PC Top Game of the Year; PC Gamer awarded the game their Editors’
Choice award and 90% rating; Computer Gaming World awarded it their Editors’
Choice award and a four and half stars out of five. It was also awarded the
best online game of 2001 by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.
Dark Age of Camelot and Shrouded Isles are available for the suggested retail prices of
$19.99 and $29.99 respectively.
Mythic Entertainment is one of the most successful online
gaming developers in the industry today. With twelve online games to its
credit, Mythic has been a major part of all of its distribution and publishing
partners pay-for-play games including AOL, the Centropolis Gaming Center,
Gamestorm, and ENGAGE. Their titles include some of the most popular
online-only games of all time including Spellbinder:
The Nexus Conflict, Aliens Online, Starship Troopers: Battlespace, Silent Death
Online, Rolemaster: Magestorm, Darkness Falls, Darkness Falls: The Crusade, Splatterball,
Godzilla Online, and Dragon’s Gate.
Mythic was named one of Deloitte & Touche’s national “Technology Fast 500”
companies, and regional “Technology Fast 50” companies. For more information
about Mythic Entertainment, visit www.mythicentertainment.com.
About Abandon Entertainment
Abandon Entertainment is a New York City-based
diversified entertainment company, dedicated to creating unique entertainment
products across all distribution platforms utilizing both traditional and
emerging media. Underneath the Abandon umbrella of companies exists Abandon
Pictures, Abandon Television, Abandon Internet Group, Abandon Ventures and
Collision Entertainment. Abandon Entertainment can be found online at www.abandonent.com.
Mythic Entertainment, Dark Age of
Camelot and Dark Age of Camelot: Shrouded Isles are trademarks of Mythic Entertainment. All other
trademarks property of their respective owners.
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