Mythic Entertainment Announced Dark Age of Camelot: Catacombs

Mythic Entertainment Announced Dark Age of
Camelot: Catacombs

Instanced Content Makes its Debut in New
Retail Expansion

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.