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Mythic Entertainment’s Dark Age of Camelot: Shrouded Isles Claims Number One Spot for Online Products
Expansion Outsells All Online Game Competition With Sales of Over 110,000 Copies in North America
FAIRFAX, VA – FEBRUARY 6, 2003 -- Mythic Entertainment ( www.mythicentertainment.com ) today announced that Dark Age of Camelot: Shrouded Isles, its first expansion pack to the fastest growing online game of all time, was the top-selling online game for December 2002 and the 15th top selling PC game, according to NPD Techworld. Since its release in early December 2002, the game has sold over 111,000 copies.
"Dark Age of Camelot: Shrouded Isles has outsold all other massively multiplayer online game releases in December, including The Sims Online from Electronic Arts, as well as Asheron's Call 2 from Microsoft," said Mark Jacobs, President and CEO of Mythic Entertainment. “Almost 90% of Dark Age of Camelot's US-server player base has purchased Shrouded Isles and we look forward to continuing this 'top of the charts' trend as we expand our player base in the US and around the world."
Shrouded Isles has already received critical acclaim, including Expansion Pack of the Year from IGN’s RPG Vault and GameSpot. It has also been nominated for an Interactive Achievement Award from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, in the category PC Massively Multiplayer/Persistent World Game of the Year. Dark Age of Camelot won in this category in 2002.
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 one hundred new monster models and almost 400 hundred 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 artificial intelligence system enabling monsters to behave and attack in deadly new ways.
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, the graphics are “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 is distributed by Vivendi Universal Games in North America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Over 600,000 people have played Dark Age of Camelot, with over 65,000 people around the world playing simultaneously at peak times. Currently there are over 210,000 paying subscribers to Dark Age of Camelot.
Since the release of Dark Age of Camelot, the game has become one of the most acclaimed online games of all time; 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.
Dark Age of Camelot and Shrouded Isles are available for the suggested retail prices of $19.99 and $29.99 respectively.
About Mythic Entertainment
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.
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