Experience Anarchy Online Shadowlands For Free

Free 7 Day Trial of Anarchy Online now includes access to Shadowlands

Oslo, Norway - October 23, 2003 – The critically acclaimed and award-winning Shadowlands expansion pack is now available as a part of Funcom’s  Free 7 Day Trial for Anarchy Online. Now players from all over the world can download the entire Anarchy Online universe and try it without any commitment for seven full days.

“Funcom was the company that started the free trial movement within the online RPG genre, and once again we are offering fans of online games something extra. Shadowlands is now included in our program, and all newcomers have free unlimited access to Anarchy Online, Notum Wars and Shadowlands for an entire week. It’s an unmatchable offer for fans of  Online RPG’s” said CEO Trond Aas, and continued “Anarchy Online has become the title of choice for the sophisticated MMOG gamer due to it’s fun and challenging gameplay. This offer removes the financial commitment of trying the best online world on the market according to several leading media outlets, and allows everyone to try this heralded masterpiece for themselves.” 

With Shadowlands Funcom introduced 20 large playfields, 40 smaller playfield areas, and over 165 distinct dungeon zones tailored to players of all levels. An impressive range of new features, including new professions, faction system, hundreds of perks, better AI, hundreds of monsters and items, new music and a greatly updated graphics engine ensured a gigantic addition to what was already an award-winning game. Shadowlands doesn’t take any of the trademark gameplay away, but greatly expands a fantastic virtual world.

Funcom is proud to present the great feedback Shadowlands has received from the press. After the first 39 reviews Shadowlands has received 7 Editor’s Choice Awards, and has yielded an 87% review score on average. Here are a few of the quotes;

“Shadowlands not only meets its rivals head on in terms of content for players of all levels, but in many ways saunters past them without breaking sweat” [Score 8,8 – Editor’s Choice Award] - IGN

"..Shadowlands is like a love letter from Funcom to its fans….If you you're not an Anarchy Online player, there's never been a better time to give it a try..a textbook example of how to do an expansion for an MMORPG. [Score 4/5 – Editor’s Choice Award] - Gamespy

“If you've never played Anarchy Online (…) and you're interested by the game's far-flung futuristic premise, you should definitely give it a try" [Score 8,5 – Branded “great”] - Gamespot

"..not only the most impressive expansion pack we have ever seen, but standing alone it would be the best MMORPG on the market today." [Score 8,8/10] - MMORPG.com

To download the 7 Day Free Trial client go to:

http://www.anarchy-online.com/tryout/

For more information about Shadowlands go to:

www.anarchyonline.com/shadowlands

For an overview of reviews and review quotes for Shadowlands go to:

http://www.anarchy-online.com/content/game/shadowlands/reviews/

About Funcom

Funcom is an independent developer and publisher of computer and console games with a focus on Persistent Online Worlds, in addition to single-player adventure and role-playing games on multiple platforms. Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2003, Funcom continues to expand its track-record of more than 20 games to date. Recent successes include the multi-award winning The Longest Journey, and the award-winning and acclaimed Anarchy Online: The Notum Wars (Expansion pack of the year 2002, CGW) and Anarchy Online Shadowlands (7 Editor’s Choice Awards). For corporate information please visit www.funcom.com.

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