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.
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.
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