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DARK AGE OF CAMELOT:
TRIALS OF ATLANTIS SLATED FOR EUROPEAN RELEASE
European Players Can Dive into the Massively Multiplayer
Online Game’s Underwater Expansion This February
FAIRFAX, VA – January 29, 2004 – Mythic
Entertainment, developer and publisher of the award-winning
massively multiplayer online role-playing game Dark Age of Camelot,
today announced that Dark Age of Camelot:
Trials of Atlantis will be released in Europe on February 25th,
2004. Published and distributed in Europe by
Wanadoo, Mythic’s latest
expansion pack to Dark Age of Camelot
updates the entire game’s graphics and includes a new world of underwater
challenges based on the legend of Atlantis.
Designed for high-level group play, Trials of Atlantis adds three
all-new character races and a boat travel system to the game.
“Dark Age of Camelot
has a strong European following, and we’re pleased to bring Trials of
Atlantis to the community,” said Mark Jacobs,
president and CEO of Mythic Entertainment.
"With Wanadoo’s help, European fans will be
able to explore the many quests and mysterious lands as well as enjoy the
graphics updates that Trials of Atlantis adds to Dark Age of Camelot.”
Dark Age of Camelot:
Trials of Atlantis was released on October 28th, 2003, in North America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa by Vivendi
Universal Games. More information on Trials of Atlantis is
available at www.darkageofcamelot.com.
About Dark Age of Camelot: Trials of Atlantis
Trials of Atlantis,
the expansion to Dark Age of Camelot, opens a whole new world in the
critically-acclaimed massively-multiplayer online role-playing game.
With Trials of Atlantis, players
can discover and rediscover a secret civilization spread across multiple
islands, submerged deep in the ocean, and across a continent.
Foreseeing the demise of their society, the ancient people of Atlantis,
possessors of extremely powerful magical lore, built a series of trials into
the ruins of their once great culture.
Players can now take on the nine trials and unlock new mysterious powers
while mastering the perilous ocean and confronting terrifying monsters.
Trials of Atlantis
is designed to further challenge high-level players by introducing a Master
Level advancement system. As a player moves
sequentially through each of the nine trials, they will achieve a
corresponding Master Level. With each Master
Level, players gain new Atlantean Master Abilities,
each with its own unique capabilities and skills.
Emphasizing group play, the trials will have to be tackled by groups of
players. Players are able to travel by boat,
explore islands within the ruins, swim to submerged dungeons, and battle new
creatures in underwater caves. Additionally,
Trials of Atlantis features three
new races, dozens of original monsters, as well as quests to discover and
treasures to reclaim.
Trials
of Atlantis
brings many graphical upgrades to Dark
Age of Camelot. It utilizes NDL’s state-of-the-art Gamebryo
graphic engine and is now DirectX 9 compatible, giving it access to the
latest graphical spell, world, and underwater effects. Many of these graphical
upgrades extend to the game’s original lands as well as the new Atlantis continent. High-definition terrain
textures and new extremely high-definition trees now render Camelot landscapes in realistic
detail, even in the game’s older areas. Additional graphics
upgrades in Trials of Atlantis
include a new user-skinable interface, new
high-polygon monster models, and many new spell and lighting effects.
About Mythic Entertainment
Mythic Entertainment is
one of the most successful online game developers in the industry today.
Credited with 13 online games, including the award winning Dark Age of Camelot, Mythic has played a major part
in the evolution of the online game industry.
The company’s other titles are some of the most popular online-only games of
all time, including Aliens Online, Starship Troopers: Battlespace,
Godzilla Online, Silent Death Online, Rolemaster: Magestorm,
Darkness Falls, Splatterball and Dragon’s Gate.
In 2003, Mythic was ranked 36 in Inc. 500.
Mythic was also named one of Deloitte & Touche’s
national “Technology Fast 500” companies and regional “Technology Fast 50”
companies for the past two years. For more
information about Mythic Entertainment,
visit www.mythicentertainment.com.
About Wanadoo
Wanadoo, a subsidiary of France
Telecom, is one of Europe's leading Internet and
directories companies with, at September
30, 2003, 8.9 million Internet
Access customers, 3.6 billion pages viewed
per month and, at December 31, 2002,
more than 638,000 advertisers in Directories.
Wanadoo is a leading Internet media services
provider in France
and U.K.
and the n° 2 in Spain
and in the Netherlands.
Wanadoo is expanding its Internet operations
through, amongst others, broadband Internet access with more than 2 million
ADSL and cable subscribers.
Wanadoo
recorded EUR 2 billion in revenues in 2002 and has approximately 7,000
employees. Wanadoo is listed on Euronext
Paris. Further information on Wanadoo can be found on the company's web site at: www.wanadoo.com.
Wanadoo is present in the game
domain with its department GOA, which manages and runs
the French multiplayer game site: GOA.com,
as well as the “Dark Age of Camelot” game in
three languages: English, German and French.
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