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Mythic Entertainment’s Shrouded
Isles Launches Strong:
First Expansion to Dark
Age of Camelot Claims the
Number One Online Package Spot
FAIRFAX, VA – DECEMBER 20, 2002 -- Mythic Entertainment (www.mythicentertainment.com)
today announced that Shrouded Isles,
the first expansion pack to the fastest growing online game of all time, has
claimed the number one online package spot, according to NPD Techworld. For its opening week, Shrouded Isles nearly tripled the sales of its nearest
competitor.
“This has been a particularly festive holiday season at Mythic, as the
company launches Shrouded Isles and
reclaims the number one online package spot,” said Mark Jacobs, President of
Mythic Entertainment. “We have put in
countless hours to make sure we deliver the best in online gaming and it’s
exciting to see gamers respond so enthusiastically.”
NPD Techworld also reported that Shrouded
Isles was the 12th top selling PC title for the week.
Dark Age of Camelot has been played by over 500,000 people around the world, including over
50,000 people playing simultaneously at peak times. Currently there are well over 200,000 subscribers of Dark Age of Camelot, and when the game
goes live in Korea this number is sure to surge further.
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 100 new monster models and almost 400 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 new 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 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, “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.
Since the release of Dark Age of Camelot, the game has received significant acclaim: 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.
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 and Dark Age of Camelot: Shrouded Isles are trademarks of Mythic Entertainment. All other trademarks property of their
respective owners.
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