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Mythic Entertainment Ships Shrouded Isles, the First Expansion Pack to the Best Selling Online
Game, Dark Age of Camelotä
FAIRFAX, VA – DECEMBER 3, 2002 -- Mythic Entertainment (www.mythicentertainment.com)
today announced that the highly anticipated expansion pack to the fastest
growing online game of all time has been shipped to retail outlets throughout
North America. Dark Age of Camelot: Shrouded Isles (www.shroudedisles.com)
will be available in stores beginning December 3, 2002.
“Shrouded Isles takes online gaming to a new level, with
state-of-the-art graphics and visual effects that make it as advanced as any
online game on the market,” said Mark Jacobs, President of Mythic
Entertainment. “Our first expansion pack opens new horizons for the hundreds of
thousands of Dark Age of Camelot fans, as well as those who have never
experienced the game.”
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. Dark Age of Camelot:
Shrouded Isles is the gamer's gateway to a world full of imagery from
historical Europe, Arthurian legends, Norse mythology, and Irish-Celtic lore.
Shrouded Isles will take 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, “you don’t have to be a 3D graphics expert to appreciate Shrouded
Isles’ improved graphics. You can just take a look at the expansion’s colorful
new magic effects or stand next to a river, because the expansion will feature
shimmering animated water, 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 will be distributed by Vivendi Universal
Games in North America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Over 500,000 people have played Dark Age of Camelot, with over
50,000 people around the world playing simultaneously at peak times. Currently
there are over 200,000 subscribers of Dark Age of Camelot, and when the
game goes live in Korea this number is sure to surge further.
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.
Shrouded Isles will be available for a suggested retail price of
$29.99.
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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