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Dark
Age of Camelot: Catacombs Announced
(Press
Release)
FAIRFAX,
VA – APRIL 14, 2004 – Mythic Entertainment, developer and publisher
of the award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game
"Dark Age of Camelot," today announced "Dark Age of
Camelot: Catacombs™," a retail expansion that introduces new
challenges based on underground environments. The expansion will upgrade
player character art throughout "Dark Age of Camelot," add
fresh content and challenges to the game, and introduce new player
classes. Mythic plans to make "Catacombs" available in
December 2004.
“'Catacombs' deepens the world of 'Dark Age of Camelot' by adding new
content beneath Albion, Hibernia, and Midgard,” said Matt Firor, Vice
President of Development and Executive Producer at Mythic Entertainment.
“Instanced dungeons support a more casual gaming style by giving
players exclusive play sessions for groups of all levels and
abilities.”
"Catacombs’" system of “player versus monster” instanced
dungeons will allow more casual players of "Dark Age of
Camelot" to quickly find and adventure in exciting and challenging
areas geared to their level. By eliminating the need to search (and
sometimes wait) for monster encounters, in "Catacombs,"
players generate private adventuring areas for their groups on their
schedule.
New technical features for "Catacombs" include:
* Major art upgrade to "Dark Age of Camelot" player character
models utilizing the EMotion FX 2 graphics engine that provides more
detailed facial features, hairstyles, and skin tones as well as enhanced
armor, clothing options and character animations.
* Instanced content will allow player groups to adventure in
“private” dungeons.
New content for "Catacombs" includes:
* Players can explore a new underground city for each Realm based on the
backstory of one of the Realm’s underground player races. Each city
leads to new dungeons, catacombs, enemies, loot and adventures.
* One new playable class for each Realm.
* Content will be provided for all character levels.
About "Dark Age of Camelot: Catacombs"
"Catacombs" is an expansion pack for "Dark Age of
Camelot" in which players are given the opportunity to explore
underground cities – with attached adventuring areas – based on the
backstory of one underground player race per Realm. Many of these new
adventures will be instanced, giving the player the chance to explore
the underground world of "Catacombs" on their own schedule.
The expansion features a major art upgrade to player character models
that provides more detailed facial features, hairstyles, skin tones as
well as enhanced armor and clothing options. The expansion also
introduces one new player class per Realm.
About Mythic Entertainment
Mythic Entertainment is one of the most successful online game
developers in the industry today. Credited with 14 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.
